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Movie site IESB.net corralled X3 director Brett Ratner at ShoWest, where the beloved fauxteur revealed his top-secret casting plans for the latest installment of the Rush Hour franchise:

Q: You mentioned that you are looking for an Indian actress, a really hot Indian actress to be in Rush Hour 3.

BR: I love her, Aishwarya Rai, the most beautiful woman in the world.

Q: Would you cast her?

BR: I am trying to right now. She's the most beautiful woman in the world and it's my dream to put her in the movie, Aishwarya Rai is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

Should Ratner's tactic of intoning the oft-repeated assessment of the Bollywood superstar's beauty until she is mesmerized deeply enough to agree to be the eye candy sandwiched between Chris Tucker's high-pitched yelping and Jackie Chan's shrugging incomprehension, he may have to resort to a less subtle plan, like standing outside the office window of Rai's agent, holding aloft a boombox blasting a heartwrenching Peter Gabriel ballad.