Mick Jagger to star in 'Three Incestuous Sisters' alongside Josh O'Connor, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley
Los Angeles, May 21
The Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger is set to share the screen with Dakota Johnson, Josh O'Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini in the upcoming film helmed by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
The film is a screen adaptation of U.S. author Audrey Niffenegger's novel 'Three Incestuous Sisters', reports 'Variety'.
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.
As per 'Variety', he is staying in a villa on the island where Isabella Rossellini's father, Roberto Rossellini, famously began his scandalous affair with her mother Ingrid Bergman on the set of his film by the same title in 1949.
As per 'Variety', 'Three Incestuous Sisters' marks the first English-language feature by Rohrwacher who is a two-time Cannes prizewinner with 'The Wonders' and 'Happy as Lazzaro'.
The 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.
Mick Jagger's standout acting roles comprise his debut in Donald Cammell and 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', and, more recently, a reclusive art collector in Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi's 2019 noir 'The Burnt Orange Heresy' that bowed from Venice.
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Reader Comments
Honestly, why does every Hollywood film need a rock star cameo? Jagger's acting in 'Performance' was decent, but these constant crossovers feel gimmicky. That said, the cast is incredible - Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley together? Yes please! Rohrwacher's direction should give this the arthouse depth it needs. Just hope the incest angle isn't handled sensationally.
This is going to be controversial for Indian audiences, mark my words. 'Incestuous' in the title itself? Censor Board will have a field day if it ever releases here. But creatively, I'm intrigued - Niffenegger wrote 'The Time Traveler's Wife' which was beautiful. Hope they show the psychological complexity rather than just shock value. Stromboli filming sounds magical though 🌋
Isabella Rossellini being there feels like a poetic nod to her parents' scandalous history on the same island! That's some meta storytelling. Jagger as an actor is underrated - his role in 'The Burnt Orange Heresy' was genuinely chilling. With this ensemble, it feels like a European indie art film that'll either be brilliance or a mess. Either way, I'm watching.
As a fan of both The Rolling Stones and indie cinema, this is a wild crossover. Jagger's acting was always overshadowed by his music career, but he showed real chops in 'Performance'. The premise sounds dark but compelling - three isolated sisters and an outsider disrupting their dynamic? Classic Gothic lit vibes. Hope Rohrwacher's visual style translates well to English.
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