Two-time Academy award-winning actor Kevin Spacey has proven his versatility as an actor numerous times. That said, however, his latest role sounds like a challenge, even for a man of his talents.

For his next performance, the House of Cards plays a man who turns into a cat. You read that correctly. He becomes a man inside a cat's body in Barry Sonnenfeld's (the Men in Black trilogy) Nine Lives.

As The Wrap reports, Spacey — who won a SAG award just Sunday for Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series in the aforementioned Netflix program — headlines the new high-concept comedy about a workaholic businessman who gets in a terrible accident and is left trapped inside the body of his family's cat.

Nine Lives is being described by Sonnenfeld as "funny, emotional, commercial comedy." The script comes from first-time writers Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin, and the film will be produced and financed by EuroCorp. This is one of the company's first releases under their new banner Red, a distribution symbol they share with Relativity.

It's certainly odd that Spacey would pick this as one of his next projects, even when considering how he recently starred in Horrible Bosses 2 and has the animated DreamWorks comedy Boss Baby, also featuring the voice of Alec Baldwin, coming out on January 13, 2017. Perhaps, when playing a character as ruthless and vile as Frank Underwood, you want to shake your funny bone and this tickles the acclaimed actor's comedic taste. Whatever the reason, expect to see some Spacey-cat shenanigans in a theater near you soon.

Believe it or not, though, this is not be the first time Spacey has embodied a feline friend. Him and fellow two-time Oscar winning actor Christoph Waltz starred in Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar skit Ameowadeus last year, where the American Beauty star played a Mozart-like Keyboard Cat. You can check that out below.

Meanwhile, Spacey next returns to the white house for the third season of House of Cards on February 27. He currently is playing Richard Nixon opposite Michael Shannon as Elvis in Elvis & Nixon.

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