Nicolas Sarkozy could play roles like Humphrey Bogart's, says Woody Allen

Allen has already directed Sarkozy's wife, supermodel turned singer Carla Bruni, in a cameo role in his latest movie "Midnight in Paris", which will premiere next month at the Cannes Fim Festival in southern France.

Asked by the French weekly "Journal du Dimanche" whether he could imagine casting Sarkozy himself in a future production, Allen said he could.

"If such an idea ever came into my head, I could no doubt find him work. I could see him in a Bogart type role," he said.

Bogart appeared in at least 75 films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, but was best known in the roles of tough guy private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and reluctant resistance hero Rick Blaine in Casablanca.