EXCLUSIVE: Julie Delpy is becoming a member of 2x Cannes Movie Pageant winner star Ruben Östlund’s subsequent film, The Leisure System Is Down.
The Earlier than Dawn actress joins an ensemble forged that features Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Tobias Menzies, Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie, Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo, Elle Piper, Thibaud Dooms, Sanna Sundqvist, Tea Stjärne, Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Delpy not too long ago wrapped taking pictures Matt Charman’s restricted sequence The Selection for Netflix, the place she leads the sequence because the French President.
Östlund’s darkly satirical mission is ready on a long-haul flight between England and Australia the place the leisure system fails and passengers are pressured to face the horror of being bored. Two-time Oscar nominee Östlund gained the Palme d’Or twice in 2022 for his political comedy Triangle of Disappointment in addition to 2017 for The Sq..
Delpy was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s Detective on the age of 14. She has starred in lots of American and European productions since then, together with Roger Avary’s Killing Zoe, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours: Blue, White and Crimson and the Earlier than sequence, alongside Ethan Hawke: Earlier than Dawn, Earlier than Sundown and Earlier than Midnight directed by Richard Linklater, for which she was nominated for 2 Academy Awards for her diversifications of Earlier than Sundown and Earlier than Midnight. She additionally wrote, directed and stars in 2 Days in Paris and 2 Days in New York. A few of her different movie credit embody Jim Jarmusch’s Damaged Flowers, Lasse Hallström’s The Hoax and Joss Wheadon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Delpy has additionally been nominated for 3 Cesar Awards. Most not too long ago, she wrote and directed and stars in Meet the Barbarians which premiered at TIFF and would be the opening evening movie on the Miami Movie Pageant on April 3.
The Leisure System is Down is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with Important Movies (Germany) and Parisienne de Manufacturing (France). Co-producers are BBC Movie, Movie i Väst, Sveriges Tv, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/ARTE, SF Studios, Eye Eye Photos (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark), Good Chaos (UK). The movie is financed by the Swedish Movie Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, with the participation of Canal+, Disney+ and ARTE France and with the assist of Inventive Europe MEDIA. Produced in affiliation with Proton Cinema, Bord Cadre movies, Sovereign Movies, Cinema Inutile, Gold Rush Photos.
World gross sales are dealt with by Coproduction Office, and take care of A24 for U.S. distribution rights has beforehand been introduced.
Delpy is represented by Administration Manufacturing Leisure and Ziffren Brittenham.
