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11.06.2020 / 16:49
‘Jojo Rabbit’ & ‘Leave No Trace’ Star Thomasin McKenzie To Play American Ballet Dancer Joy Womack In ‘Joika’ For Anonymous Content, Four Knights, Embankment & UTA — Cannes
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Fast-rising actress Thomasin McKenzie, star of Jojo Rabbit and Leave No Trace, is to play American ballet dancer Joy Womack in biopic Joika.Womack, who is only the second American to graduate from Moscow’s infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is personally overseeing McKenzie’s training and will act as the actress’s double for more demanding sequences.The film will chart the dancer’s intense training, which tested the limits of her dedication,