Why did Bong Joon-Ho recruit these two French actresses for Mickey 17?

It all started at the Venice Festival, where the Korean director was president of the jury in 2021.

Six years later Parasitewho had triumphed at the Cannes and Oscar Festival and conquered the public around the world (258 million dollars at the box office, and nearly 2 million admissions in France), Bong Joon-Ho is finally back. And he held his luck in Hollywood, with his third American film after Snowpiecer And Okja.

Robert Pattinson is the star of Mickey 17with Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun by his side. But also two French actresses that we did not necessarily expect in a blockbuster of SF International: Anamaria vartolomei (noticed last year in Count of Monte-Cristo)) And Anna Mouglalis (Black baron).

Passing through Paris to present his new anti -capitalist farce on a worker of the cloned space who dies and is constantly rebounded, Bong Joon-Ho Explained to the public why he had chosen these two actresses. Comments reported on X by Damien Leblanc, journalist at First and present on site:

“”When I was president of the jury in Venice in 2021, I discovered The eventwhere Anamaria Vartolomei and Anna Mouglalis played. Both are today in Mickey 17 And I thank Audrey Diwan for that. “

Yes, almost four years ago the film on the abortion of Audrey Diwan, adapted from the eponymous novel by Annie Ernaux, won the Golden Lion in Venice, under the presidency of Bong Joon-Ho, who was sufficiently marked by the performance of the two actresses to recruit them in Mickey 17. The link between the two feature films is not easy, but the story is beautiful.

The promotion did not reveal much of the roles of Anamaria Vartolomei and Anna Mouglalis, but they are important in Mickey 17. You don’t tell you more so as not to spoil your surprise. See you on March 5 at the cinema to discover it.