Mick Jagger comes back to the silver screen after two decades.
The Rolling Stones frontman stars as Joseph Cassidy in the neo-noir thriller film The Burnt Orange Heresy alongside Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki. The Burnt Orange Heresy follows a washed-up European art critic James Figueras (Bang) and his American tourist lover (Debicki) who travel to the lavish Lake Como, where a greedy art dealer Cassidy (Jagger) requests Figueras to steal a painting from the legendary reclusive artist Jerome Debney (Sutherland).
It’s Jagger’s first acting role since starring in the 2001 drama The Man from Elysian Fields.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the film on digital, DVD and Blu-ray platforms tomorrow, Aug. 25. But until then, Billboard got an exclusive look of what the legendary rocker had to say about his latest film role and what his starstruck co-stars said when they met him on set.
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“When I heard that he came on board, I was like, ‘Please make sure that I have something to hold onto when I see him for the first time ’cause I might faint,” Bang said in the exclusive clip. “I don’t think there’s a bigger living legend out there, is there?”
“I mean, it’s Mick Jagger,” Debicki joked matter-of-factly. “He’s so effervescent as a human being. And then when the camera’s rolling and he’s Cassidy, there’s this darkness that comes out.”
Jagger discussed his familiarity with the art world, which helped him connect to the overall mold of his character. But he got to poke around the conniving side of Cassidy, who’s driven by a dishonest agenda as part of a grand art heist and employs Bangs’ character to do the dirty work.
“I thought the Cassidy character kind of suited me, and he was a kind of charming rather malignant person,” the 77-year-old superstar said with a laugh. “He’s quite a bit crooked, he’s very invasive of other people.”
The Burnt Orange Heresy, directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, is based on Charles Willeford’s 1971 noir novel and closed the Venice International Film Festival in 2019.
Watch the exclusive clip above.