Trivia / Joan of Arc

1999 Miniseries

• Actor-Shared Background: Leelee Sobieski has some French ancestry, and joked that she was a virgin like Joan at the time of filming.
• California Doubling: Set in France, partly filmed in the Czech Republic.
• Dueling Works: The miniseries came out in 1999, the same year as Luc Besson's theatrical film The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc starring Milla Jovovich as Joan. Both productions employ Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane and never state whether Joan is actually having visions from God.
• Playing Against Type: Neil Patrick Harris, best known for comedies and sitcoms, is certainly not the first actor one would picture for a serious medieval period piece.
• Underage Casting: Leelee Sobieski was sixteen, one year younger than Joan is at the beginning, and then continues to play her until she's nineteen. This actually makes her one of the few actresses to be close to Joan's age in film, as Maria Falconetti was 36 in The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ingrid Bergman was 33 in the 1948 film and even the duelling The Messenger film had Milla Jovovich at 24.

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