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Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, Mitzi Peirone on How Joan of Arc Inspired ‘Saint Clare’: ‘You Don’t Have to F—ing Take It’


Actors Bella Thorne and Rebecca De Mornay, and director Mitzi Peirone explain how horror-thriller 'Saint Clare' was inspired by Joan of Arc.

Bella Thorne, the star of “Shake It Up” and “Amityville Horror,” and Rebecca De Mornay, best known for “Risky Business” and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” are at the Taormina Film Festival this week with Mitzi Peirone’s horror-thriller “Saint Clare,” which opened the Sicilian event. The actors and director spoke to Variety about how the film was inspired by Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who led the French army against the English invaders, and was burned to death at the stake. Thorne also premiered at the festival a short film that she directed, “Unsettled,” which tells a true story about a gay man’s abduction from a nightclub.

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