Johnny Depp’s ‘Modi’ Adds New Cast As Shoot Gets Underway In Hungary
27.09.2023 - 16:27
/ deadline.com
Italian actress Luisa Ranieri has joined the cast of Johnny Depp’s upcoming Amadeo Modigliani bio-pic Modi as filming gets underway in Hungary.
Ranieri’s arrival on the picture was announced by Italian-Canadian producer Andrea Iervolino at Rome-based IBLE group which has joined Depp’s in.2 Film and Barry Navidi Productions on the film.
Modi is Depp’s second feature in the director’s chair after his 1997 feature The Brave.
Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio plays the titular painter and sculptor, with previously announced cast members including Al Pacino, in the role of art collector Maurice Gangnat.
Ranieri will play Rosalie Tobia, the owner of a Paris cafe frequented by impoverished artists, who took Modigliani under her wing when he was down and out.
“Luisa Ranieri, is among one of Italy’s most talented actresses, with the portential for international success,” Iervolino said in a statement released to Italian news agency Ansa.
Ranieri’s recent credits include Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-nominated drama The Hand of God, and she is also set to appear in his new untitled Naples-set film alongside Gary Oldman.
The announcement comes a week after Depp and his cast and crew set down in Hungary for the start of principal photography on the film.
There has been no official release announcing the start of the shoot but there have been numerous celebrity sightings and posts showing the location sets on Hungary’s social media networks.
The production is shooting in streets around Budapest’s Károlyi Garden, which are doubling up for the streets of the French capital in the 1910s, as well as its Buda Castle.
Other cast additions, which have been confirmed by sources close to the film, include Antonia Desplat, Stephen Graham, Bruno