BRITNEY SPEARS’ ex-husband KEVIN FEDERLINE is embarking on a movie career after landing a part in KEANU REEVES’ new film.

The dancer/rapper will play a “small but notable” role in the thriller Night Watch, opposite Reeves and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, according to In Touch Weekly magazine.

It won’t be the 29-year-old’s first acting job – he appeared in an episode of TV drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which aired in America last year.

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