Legendary musician Mick Jagger has joined the cast of Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s new film, ‘Three Incestuous Sisters’.
The Rolling Stones’ lead, 82, will play a lighthouse keeper and the father of a character played by English actor Josh O’Connor (‘Challengers’).
This is not the first cinematographic exploit for Jagger, who has appeared in a number of films in the past.
In 1970, he played Ned Kelly in Tony Richardson’s film of the same name, and he has starred in a dozen movies since.
Jagger and O’Connor join a stellar cast that currently includes Dakota Johnson, Jesse Buckley, and Saoirse Ronan.
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Rohrwacher shoots her first film in English
Rohrwacher’s next venture is currently filming in the Italian island of Stromboli, which is located off the north of Sicily.
‘Three Incestuous Sisters’ marks the first English-language feature by Rohrwacher, but her movies are not foreign to festival (and critical) success.
The director, sister of actress Alba Rohrwacher (‘La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi’ – The Solitude of Prime Numbers), has won twice at the Cannes Film Festival for her movies ‘Le Meraviglie’ (‘The Wonders’) and ‘Lazzaro Felice’ (‘Happy as Lazzaro’).
‘Three Incestuous Sisters’ also marks the second collaboration between the director and Josh O’Connor, who played the lead in her previous film, the nostalgic 80s archeology tale ‘La Chimera’.
‘Three Incestuous Sisters’
Rohrwacher’s film is based on the 2005 gothic visual novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger.
The story features three sisters, Clothilde, Ophile, and Bettine, as they witness their relationship strain and change following the arrival of a lighthouse keeper’s son.
The Italian director worked on the screenplay of the film with American novelist Ottessa Moshfegh, who rose to stardom in recent years with the release of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ (2018) and ‘Lapvona’ (2022).
O’Connor and Rohrwacher as collaborators
O’Connor has never hidden his admiration for Rohrwacher, stating that he was so touched by ‘Lazzaro Felice’ that he wrote a letter to the director to ask her to work on a film together.
That request later came true with their collaboration in ‘La Chimera’.
“I was like, if there was ever a filmmaker who was made for me, it’s Alice,” the actor explained.
“So I wrote this thing and we met over Zoom. Alice said, ‘I have a project but you’re too young [for the part], but maybe one day’, and I was like, it’s never gonna happen.”
“And then a few months later, she rewrote the part as a younger [character] for me,” O’Connor told Another Magazine.
“When you work with an auteur like Alice it’s like, the closest thing to love,” he added.
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