Adèle Exarchopoulos Joins Apple Film With Zoë Kravitz — SkimNews
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Exarchopoulos crossing into her first American studio lead alongside Kravitz and a director behind a recent coming-of-age hit reflects Apple’s film division continuing to lean on female-fronted, prestige-adjacent projects as its distinguishing identity.
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- Adèle Exarchopoulos landed a lead role opposite Zoë Kravitz in Apple's untitled mystery film — her first American studio lead role.
- Megan Park is directing from her own script and exec producing, following her debut feature My Old Ass; the logline is being kept under wraps.
- Apple Studios and LuckyChap are producing the film in association with FilmNation, with Tom Ackerley, Bronte Payne, and Kelly McRedmond overseeing for LuckyChap.
- Exarchopoulos broke out with Blue Is the Warmest Color at Cannes 2013, becoming the youngest-ever Palme d'Or winner alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche and Léa Seydoux.
- Exarchopoulos is a two-time César Award winner who voiced Ennui in Pixar's Inside Out 2, and is repped by UTA, Adequat in France, and Nour Abdelnour and Youssef at Marquis.
- Exarchopoulos' upcoming French slate includes Jeanne Herry's Garance (Another Day), releasing in France on September 23, and Christophe Honoré's Orange-Flavoured Wedding (Mariage au goût d'orange) on December 9.
Why it matters: For Exarchopoulos, a two-time César winner and the youngest-ever Palme d'Or recipient, this is her first American studio lead role — a formal transition from a French cinema career to Apple's English-language film slate.
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