Trivia / Vox Lux

• Acting for Two: Raffey Cassidy plays both young Celeste and her daughter Albertine.
• Dueling Movies: With A Star Is Born, another musical drama about troubled performers struggling to remain relevant in the music industry.
• Fake American: Raffey Cassidy, Stacey Martin and Jude Law are all Brits playing Americans and doing so extremely convincingly.
• Playing Against Type: Natalie Portman usually plays intelligent, eloquent, proper and vulnerable characters, Here, she plays the abrasive, volatile and foul-mouthed Celeste.
• What Could Have Been: Rooney Mara was originally cast as Celeste Montgomery before she was replaced by Natalie Portman.