Rain Spencer Joins Maude Apatow and Mike Faist in “The Maid of Orleans” from Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

Exclusive: Rain Spencer (Good Girl Jane, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Big Girls Don't Cry) joins Maude Apatow (Poetic License, Euphoria) and Mike Faist (Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Challengers, East of Eden) in The Maid of Orleans, a dramatic film written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz. Amira Kasar (Contact Me […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Spencer (Good Girl Jane, The Summer I Got Pretty, Big Girls Don't Cry) joins Maude Apatow (Poetic License, Euphoria) and Mike Feist (Steven Spielberg's Western, The Challengers, East of Eden writer and Sarah Means director). Jane) Dramatic film Maid of Orleans.

Amira Cazar (Call Me By Your Name, La Maison, The Contractor) and Stephen Crepon (Andor, Peter Van Kant) are also cast in key roles.

In The Maid of Orleans, a curious game of cat and mouse occurs when an ambitious young woman travels to Paris to assist a tortured visionary in his French production of Joan of Arc. Watch on Deadline

Mintz is also producing the feature with Shuli Harrell and Jeff David (See You When I See You). Astute Films is producing and also fully financing the film.

"It's a great gift to work with artists I admire and trust, and I can't wait to share what we create together," Mintz said.

The Maid of Orleans is currently filming in Paris, France. The film marks the reunion of Mintz and Spencer, who starred in Mintz's Good Girl Jane.

Mintz was a 2017 Sundance Fellow at the 2017 Writer's Intensive with Good Girl Jane, which screened in the US Narrative Competition at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and won both the Founders Award for Best US Fiction and Best Performance in a Feature Film.

Spencer recently landed a breakout lead in Anne Hathaway's The Little Five alongside Ariana Greenblatt and David Oyelowo. She is currently starring in Jane Campion's Don't Cry Big Girl, directed by Paloma Schneidman, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. She will next be seen as Taylor Jewell in the highly anticipated The Summer I Turned Pretty for Amazon MGM.

The Maid of Orleans will be Spencer and Mintz's third collaboration. Earlier this year, they wrapped production on Mintz's second feature film in upstate New York.

Amira Casaris, a veteran of international film and television productions such as Apple TV's La Maison with Lambert Wilson and Carole Bouquet. SND Visions drama with Diane Kruger and Matthew Kasowitz. National Geographic's dramatic miniseries A Small Light with Bel Pauley and Liev Schreiber. Paramount's The Contractor starring Chris Pine, Sony's acclaimed classic Call Me By Your Name with Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer directed by Luca Guadagnino and CBS' At Eternity's Gate directed by Julian Schnabel starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friends and Madcar.

Casar often appeared in French films and television productions, including TF1's Sarah Bernhardt Elahi, starring Sandrine Kiberlinand and Lauren Lafitte. Metropolitan Movie Sisters in Arms starring Dylan Gwynne, Camelia Jordana, Esther Garrel, Maya Sansa, Nana Blondell and Nosh Skawgen. Studio mini-series CanalSavages with Marina Fois, Roschdy Zem, Souhella Yacoub, Dali Benssalah, Sofaine Zemani, Lyna Khoudri and Ilies Kadri and Canal+ series Versailles with George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos, Tyg Runyan, Suarte Bowman and Evan Williams.

Stéphane Crepon is best known for his recurring role in the Canal+ TV drama thriller The Bureau starring Matthew Kasowitz, Florence Loiret Kyle and Jonathan Zakai. Playtime's Peter Von Kant drama written and directed by François Ozon and starring Denise Manouche. Isabelle Ajani and Hanna Shigola and Lucasfilms' Andor series with Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård and Adria Arjuna.

Crepon's other credits include Diaphana Distribution's Male Skin opposite Catherine Deneuve, Karin Viard and Laurent Stoker. ARP Selection's Sanguine starring Mara Taquin and Karin Viard, Zinc's Vultures starring Sami Bouajila, Mallory Wanecque, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Valerie Donezelli. Netflix's Lupine with Omar Sy and Ludin Sagnier, as well as the drama Elle Driver Promises with Isabelle Huppert and Sofiane Grub.

Spencer is repped by UTA, Range Media Partners and Yorn Levine. Faist is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partner and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Apatow is repped by WME, Mosaic, Ziffren Brittenham. Mintz is repped by WME and Hirsch, Wallerstein, Hayum, Matlof and Fishman.

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