Sarah Winter will play Louise de la Vallière, mistress of Louis XIV, one of the leading roles in Versailles, currently filming a 10-episode first season expected to première in the fall of 2015 on Canal+.
Sarah Winter is a newcomer, though she's done some stage work according to her résumé.
Weirdly enough, she recently played Yvette in the season finale of Reign (and she'll return for episode 2.01), which is another period drama set in the French court — though there's a hundred years between the reigns of François II (spoiler alert (?): 1558-1560) and Louis XIV (1661-1715).
Before Reign, the CW also wanted her in 2013 for The Selection (a failed Hunger-Games-lite pilot), so you know she's
Other exciting casting news will probably arrive in the next few weeks as the first 2 episodes are being shot. Would be nice to cast some French actors (who speak English, obviously), just in case the people in the French court feel like speaking French once in a while (though given her being cast in Reign and now in Versailles, perhaps Winter has at least some notions (not that I'm assuming a CW show has lots of subtitles)... we'll see).
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Sounds interesting
ReplyDeleteI'm really curious to see who plays Louis XIV.
ReplyDeleteLOL at "spoiler alert", I think we all know Francis is living on borrowed time on Reign. Unfortunately.
I'm sure there will be some French actors, but probably more English-speaking actors that also know French!
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