{"id":380945,"date":"2026-01-20T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380945\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:40:08","slug":"lea-seydoux-joins-mikey-madison-in-the-masque-of-the-red-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380945\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea Seydoux Joins Mikey Madison in The Masque of the Red Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFrench actress L\u00e9a Seydoux has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mikey-madison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mikey-madison_1\" data-tag=\"mikey-madison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikey Madison<\/a> in The Masque of the Red Death, A24\u2019s reimagining of the creepy Edgar Allan Poe story from filmmaker Charlie Polinger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJulia Hammer and Erik Feig are producing for Picturestart with James Presson and Lucy McKendrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA24 is mum on the official plot but does describe the project as wildly revisionist and darkly comedic. Sources tell\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0that Madison is playing twin sisters in a story that sees a mad prince take in the noble class to his castle while a plague devastates the peasantry. The story sees a long-lost twin, hidden among the lower class, enter the castle and into a decadent world of orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge and decapitations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSeydoux will play a scheming lady-in-waiting who is conniving her way to the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA24 is distributing worldwide. Polinger is executive producing. Production is due to take place in Hungary  starting in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA Palme d\u2019or Cannes Film Festival winner and a five time Cesar Award nominee, Seydoux is known for ping-ponging between French cinema and Hollywood outings. The latter ranges from her first Hollywood production, Inglourious Basterds, to blockbusters Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Spectre, one of two Bond movies in which she appeared. Her last major Hollywood role was in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Dune: Part Two, in which she played Lady Margot Fenring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis year, the actress is will be seen starring in Oscar-winning screenwriter\u00a0Arthur Harari\u2019s The Unknown, Marie Kreutzer\u2019s Gentle Monster\u00a0alongside Catherine Deneuve, and the Zellner Bros.\u2019 Alpha Gang with Cate Blanchett and Dave Bautista.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSeydoux is repped by Agence Adequat and UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French actress L\u00e9a Seydoux has joined Mikey Madison in The Masque of the Red Death, A24\u2019s reimagining of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,21044,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-380945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mikey-madison","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}