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,

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