Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, Mitzi Peirone on How Joan of Arc Inspired ‘Saint Clare’: ‘You Don’t Have to F—ing Take It’
variety.comJohn Bleasdale Guest Contributor 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. “Saint Clare” tells the story of Clare Bleeker, a Catholic college student who has a knack of killing sexual predators.
Peirone said: “Clare’s role model is Joan of Arc because she literally gave everything, herself included, to her mission. She says: The fire that burns inside of me is stronger than the fire around me, which is a great message.
I think that having moral integrity is something that isn’t… I don’t know if it’s valued anymore in our society.” Peirone added that she took visual inspiration from Artemisia Gentileschi, the Renaissance painter, who’s often called the female Caravaggio.
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