Los Angeles, Jan 3 (IANS) Actress Demi Moore has been roped in to play activist Gloria Steinem in porn star Linda Lovelace’s biopic.

The 49-year-old will play Steinem, an American social and political activist and journalist who became better known as the icon of feminism in 1960s, in the upcoming indie drama, which has Amanda Seyfried in the lead.

Steinem, now 77, founded Ms. magazine in 1972. According to Variety.com, the magazine published the infamous article ‘The Real Linda Lovelace’ in which Steinem talked about Linda’s abusive relationship with her pornographer husband Chuck Traynor.