Mick Jagger is set to star in Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s adaptation of U.S. author Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “Three Incestuous Sisters,” alongside previously announced cast members Dakota Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini.
The Rolling Stones frontman touched down in a helicopter earlier this week on the volcanic island of Stromboli, off the coast of Sicily, where Rohrwacher’s gothic drama is shooting, according to an inside source who confirmed Italian press reports. He is staying in a villa on the island where Isabella Rossellini’s father Roberto Rossellini in 1949 famously began his scandalous affair with her mother Ingrid Bergman on the set of his film by the same title.
“Three Incestuous Sisters” marks the first English-language feature by Rohrwacher who is a two-time Cannes prizewinner with “The Wonders” (2014) and “Happy as Lazzaro.” The buzzy film is based on Niffenegger’s illustrated gothic novel about three sisters living in isolation, whose relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a lighthouse keeper’s son. Other plot details are being kept under wraps.
According to unconfirmed Italian press reports, Jagger is playing the lighthouse keeper whose son is being played by Josh O’Connor.
Jagger’s standout acting roles comprise his debut in Donald Cammell e Nicolas Roeg’s “Performance,” in which he toyed with his public persona playing a burned-out, decadent rock star; a ruthless corporate mercenary in Geoff Murphy’s 1992 sci-fi flop “Freejack,” which is now a cult-classic; a drag queen in Sean Mathias’s 2015 “Bent”; a jaded business exec running an escort agency in George Hickenlooper’s “The Man From Elysian Fields” (2001); and, more recently, a reclusive art collector in Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi’s 2019 noir “The Burnt Orange Heresy” that bowed from Venice.
Earlier this month The Rolling Stones announced the release of a new studio album “Foreign Tongues,” due on July 10 from Capitol Records. The 14-track collection follows less than three years after the band’s Grammy Award-winning “Hackney Diamonds” — which was their first in nearly 15 years. The new album is being introduced by the lead single “In the Stars,” released digitally on Friday (May 5) alongside the album’s opening track “Rough and Twisted.”
Rohrwacher’s most recent feature is “La Chimera” (2023), led by O’Connor and also starring Rossellini, that competed in Cannes. “La Chimera” was released in the U.S. by Neon and sold widely around the world. Rohrwacher was honored earlier this year with the European Film Academy’s Achievement in World Cinema Award.
“Three Incestuous Sisters” is financed and produced by Indian Paintbrush. Johnson and Ro Donnelly are producing for Johnson’s TeaTime Pictures, along with Steven Rales for Indian Paintbrush. Rohrwacher is also producing. The Italian line producer is Fandango. Principal photography on “Three Incestuous Sisters” started in April with ten weeks of shooting planned in Stromboli and Rome.
Source: variety.com
