Lea Seydoux, Tahar Rahim to star in Romantic Drama ‘Grand Central’
Talk about an exciting pairing of young and highly promising actors! Variety reports that French rising stars Lea Seydoux (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Midnight in Paris) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) will star in writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski’s contemporary romantic drama Grand Central.
Rahim, who gave a fantastic performance in Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, is set to take on the role of a young man addicted to danger, who becomes a worker at a French nuclear facility and subsequently is exposed to deadly radiation levels. Seydoux will play a colleague with whom he has a passionate and forbidden affair with.
This isn’t the first time Zlotowski and Seydoux are working together. Seydoux starred in Belle Epine, Zlotowski’s first feature film. The director told Variety that she started writing the script before the Fukushima disaster and wanted to tell “an intense love story, set in the daunting world of nuclear nomads (who go from one plant to the next), because of its visual and dramatic appeal.”
Seydoux will next be seen in Benoit Jacquot’s Marie Antoinette film Farewell, My Queen, which opens at Berlin. Rahim, who recently starred in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold, just wrapped Joachim Lafosse’s Loving Without Reason. Production for Grand Central is expected to start this summer in France and Vienna, Austria.
What do you think? Excited about this pairing?
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I still haven’t seen Belle Épine but I’ve been impressed with both these actors’ work so far. Going to keep a close eye on this one.
Haven’t seen MI4 and to be honest, Seydoux has had only small supporting roles so far (that I’ve seen) but yea, Tahar Rahim is the man.
Oh… I will see this. I love “A Prophet” and I definitely love Lea Seydoux.
“Ghost Protocol” was my introduction to Lea Seydoux, and I really thought she was good in it, although I wished she wouldn’t have been killed off so quickly. This sounds interesting. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for the info!
Spoilers but yes Seydoux is the best thing in “Ghost Protocol, and I’m saying that while keeping in mind that there were many great things in “Ghostocol.”
And I’ve been a Tahar Rahim fan since “A Prophet” in TIFF 2009. I hope this isn’t as bleak as “Love and Bruises.”
This means you haven’t seen Midnight in Paris!?
Oooh, I like this cast and the setting in France and Austria should be quite romantic. This is definitely my cup of tea!
ahaha, well if the inside of a nuclear plant sounds romantic…
This will be good I think. ±Right up my street with some great talent involved!
Let’s hope it lives up to its promise!
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