{"id":596132,"date":"2026-05-21T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:15:08","slug":"mick-jagger-to-play-josh-oconnors-father-in-new-film-from-alice-rohrwacher-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596132\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger to play Josh O\u2019Connor\u2019s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is playing a lighthouse keeper in the new film from Happy as Lazzaro director Alice Rohrwacher<\/a>, which is currently filming on the Italian island of Stromboli.<\/p>\n

According to reports in the Italian media<\/a>, Jagger was photographed on arrival in Stromboli after flying in by helicopter to take a role in Three Incestuous Sisters, Rohrwacher\u2019s adaptation of the 2005 \u201cvisual novel\u201d<\/a> by The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife author Audrey Niffenegger.<\/p>\n

Rohrwacher, who received considerable acclaim for Happy as Lazzaro, which won best screenplay at Cannes in 2018, and its 2023 followup La Chimera<\/a>, which starred Josh O\u2019Connor as a looter of ancient artefacts, is making her English-language debut with Three Incestuous Sisters, Niffenegger\u2019s self-created fairytale about three sisters who fall in love with a lighthouse keeper\u2019s son.<\/p>\n

Jagger joins the previously announced cast<\/a> of Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Saoirse Ronan and O\u2019Connor; the latter is playing his character\u2019s son. The musician has appeared sporadically in feature films over the years, including lead roles in Performance and Ned Kelly (both released in 1970), and smaller roles in 1992 sci-fi yarn Freejack, 1997 play adaptation Bent, and 2001 drama The Man from Elysian Fields<\/a>. Jagger has also been active as a producer, with projects including second world war codebreaker drama Enigma<\/a>, all-female comedy remake The Women, and James Brown biopic Get on Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is playing a lighthouse keeper in the new film from Happy as Lazzaro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596132","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=596132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}