People

By Guy D. Garcia

Her physical presence is nothing if not revolutionary. Which is exactly what Producer Irwin Winkler was looking for when he cast Eurythmics Lead Singer Annie Lennox, 30, in the role of Miss Liberty in Revolution, an epic film about the American War of Independence, due out in December. "We thought she had the right kind of look for the period," says Winkler of the Scottish rocker. "We thought her voice would ring out in the crowd. It cuts through everything." In the film's opening scene, Lennox incites a mob to take a ship for the American cause from its owner, played by Al Pacino. Lennox took the demands of making her first movie in stride, including repeated dousings with buckets of water for a rainy scene. The rocker was also asked to cover her close-cropped coif with a long red wig. "It went with a fiery personality," explains Winkler. Right now Lennox is drying out her pipes in preparation for a new album and a worldwide tour that will begin next summer. By then, any emotional chords she strikes are sure to be voiced in a proper Scots burr.