Yahoo Movies One Day star Ambika Mod lands next movie role
One Day star Ambika Mod has landed her next movie role.
The actress has joined the mammoth cast of Romain Gavras’ upcoming action film Sacrifice with a host of big names.
Deadline reports that Mod joins fellow new additions Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Jade Croot, Jeremy O. Harris and Miriam Silverman, alongside Brat queen Charli XCX and Swedish rapper Yung Lean.
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They join the film's previously announced leads Captain America's Chris Evans and Furiosa's Anya Taylor-Joy and supporting cast members Black Mirror's Salma Hayek Pinault and Sam Richardson.
The film will be Gavras' English-language movie debut, and he'll be directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Succession's Will Arbery.
Sacrifice is loosely inspired by the Joan of Arc story, with Taylor-Joy playing Joan, described as "a zealous spirit driven by a volcanic prophecy only she can hear, who is on a mission to save the world from a fiery reckoning".
The logline continues: "Along with her militia of mystical disciples, she hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three hostages: Mike Tyler (Evans), a beleaguered movie star desperate for redemption; Bracken (Cassel), the world’s richest man; and Katie (Mod), who’s just unlucky.
"They are forced on a journey through forest and fire until Mike faces the ultimate question: What would he sacrifice for humanity?"
Filming for Sacrifice is currently underway in Europe.
Gavras previously spoke to Deadline about where the idea of Sacrifice came from and how he was inspired by Greek mythology.
"It came from a very simple idea, which is every time you go to those events, whether it's in Cannes, whether it's a charity event and where you have all those people, the mischievous side of me, and I think the audience as well when they're watching those events, they kind of want something to go really horribly wrong," he said.
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"When you see glitzy people and all the shininess and all that stuff, you want that moment to be twisted right?"
He continued: "I was raised myself on Greek mythology. Instead of being fed new movies when I was a kid, my parents were telling me these Greek tales, where a mum eats her kids and of sacrifices to volcanoes.
"Those things fed me and led to the idea of having a group of kids that have a very specific agenda that comes from a very mythological kind of belief system.
"There is a fondness of satire, and Will is amazing at the sharpness of the tone of the characters and the humanity of them. I am so excited by our cast."
Sacrifice doesn't have a release date yet.
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