{"id":117016,"date":"2025-08-28T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117016\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:03:06","slug":"thomasin-mckenzie-toby-wallace-set-for-sister-maria-goes-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomasin McKenzie &#038; Toby Wallace Set For &#8216;Sister Maria Goes To Rome&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/thomasin-mckenzie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thomasin-mckenzie\" data-tag=\"thomasin-mckenzie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomasin McKenzie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toby-wallace\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toby-wallace\" data-tag=\"toby-wallace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Wallace<\/a> have boarded\u00a0Sister Maria Goes to Rome, the sophomore feature from\u00a0Emily\u00a0writer-director Frances O\u2019Connor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project, which is expected to begin shooting in spring 2026 in Rome and the Italian region of Lazio, sees\u00a0Jojo Rabbit\u00a0star McKenzie play Sister Maria, a spirited young nun with an unshakeable faith who arrives in Rome on a quest to save her beloved village but ends up clashing with a jaded tour guide (Wallace) who has lost his way. What starts as a battle between wide-eyed idealism and world-weary cynicism blossoms into an unexpected friendship that proves ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they believe in each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNaomi Despres (Kill the Messenger) and Piers Tempest (The Wife) produce for Desmar Films and Tempo Productions with Guglielmo Marchetti producing for Notorious Pictures SpA in Italy. Mich\u00e8le Marshall executive produces for Desmar Films.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/embankment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_embankment\" data-tag=\"embankment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Embankment<\/a> is handling worldwide sales for the title and is co-repping U.S. rights with WME Independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cRome has always been a city of possibility for me from my very first visit many years ago,\u201d said O\u2019Connor, who wrote and directed her 2022 debut feature\u00a0Emily. \u201cI wanted to create an uplifting and fun story for everyone that was about choosing hope, centered around this young nun who was irrepressibly positive. It buoyed me immensely to create a world where ordinary people triumph and this Frank Capra quote inspired me: \u2018That\u2019s all I\u2019m here for, really, to try to tell you that there is good in the world. And that is wonderful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEmbankment Founder Hugo Grumbar added: \u201cWorldwide audiences are craving warm-hearted, uplifting entertainment right now.\u00a0Sister Maria\u00a0will have people leaving the cinema with a skip in their step \u2013 her unadulterated positive view of the world is absolutely infectious.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomasin McKenzie and Toby Wallace have boarded\u00a0Sister Maria Goes to Rome, the sophomore feature from\u00a0Emily\u00a0writer-director Frances O\u2019Connor.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,75687,88,75688,75689],"class_list":{"0":"post-117016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-embankment","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-thomasin-mckenzie","12":"tag-toby-wallace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}