Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Baz Luhrmann Has Cast a Queen’s Gambit Star in His Upcoming Joan of Arc Movie

Baz Luhrmann has just cast a relative unknown in his upcoming Joan of Arc movie, who you might remember from The Queen’s Gambit. Sisanie will tell you who landed the hottest role in Hollywood...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood. Anna Taylor's Joy's portrayal of Beth Harmon
in The Queen's Gambit turned her into a household name,
and now the other young actress who also portrayed the
chess champion in the series, is up for a role
that may launch her into the a list. Ala Johnson,
who played the child version of Beth Harmon on The

(00:21):
Queen's Gambit, has been offered the lead in Boz Lehrmann's
epic Joan of Arc biopic Gen d Arc. Playing Joan
was one of the hottest gigs for rising actresses in town,
with hundreds of girls auditioning for the role after Luhrman's
twenty twenty two movie Elvis launched Austin Butler into the stratosphere,
but Deadline reports that Elah stood out over all other

(00:45):
hopefuls while portraying Gen d'Arc, who's a patron saint in
France after leaving the Siege of Orleans in fourteen hundred
at only eighteen years old, is a tall order. Boz
is confident in Isla. Jean de Arc is expected to
go into production next year. That's direct from Hollywood.