Tidbits from the Vogue article:
-18-year old Isla Johnston has been in the titular role. She's English from the Southeastern portion.
-People might recognize as playing younger Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit!
Some tidbit regarding his ideas for his Jeanne D'Arc:
"Early in the process the filmmaker had them read parts of Saint Joan, the classic George Bernard Shaw play—but also a monologue from Fleabag. “The Shaw was very classical and what people expect,” Luhrmann says, “and the idea was to flip it and give some material that was completely contemporary.”
"To help him capture that audacity, he worked on the screenplay with Ava Pickett, the 31-year-old playwright and screenwriter whose play 1536 imagines the reverberations of the execution of Anne Boleyn among ordinary young women, and was staged at London’s Almeida Theatre earlier this year. “The thing that we really bonded over was Jehanne d’Arc the teenage girl, rather than Jehanne d’Arc the cultural icon or the legend,” says Pickett"
They mention doing a lot of research and speaking with academics:
"Catherine Martin, Luhrmann’s wife and frequent collaborator, describes to me compiling an “encyclopedic study” of the period that ranges from “the breeds of dogs popular in her era, to comparative studies of medieval and modern horses, to furniture, textiles, and even details of interior painting.” (Martin, whose mother is French and father is a retired academic specializing in French history, also points to one reason Joan might have dressed herself in male clothing: It was tied together with laces, which made it “far more difficult to undress someone against their will.”)
I hope that's not the haircut cause I was envisioning a boyish pixie cut like Milla Jovovich's version.
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