Watch Mick Jagger in The Burnt Orange Heresy movie trailer
The trailer for the upcoming movie The Burnt Orange Heresy has premiered, which stars The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger in a supporting role.
Last updated 11th Mar 2020
76.year-old Sir Mick plays a reclusive art dealer called Joseph Cassidy in The Burnt Orange Heresy, which is based on the 1971 noir novel of the same name by Charles Willeford.
Having flirted with acting numerous times over the decades, Mick Jagger’s last appearance in a movie was a brief cameo as a Bank Safe Deposit employee in 2008 heist film The Bank Job.
Prior to that, The Rolling Stones frontman's last full acting role was as escort service supremo Luther Fox in 2001 drama The Man from Eysian Fields.
The Burnt Orange Heresy got its global premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival last September and hits select cinemas across the globe in March.
Directed by Giuseppe Capotondi and written by Scott Smith, The Burnt Orange Heresy also stars Donald Sutherland (Jerome Debney), Claes Bang (James Figueras) and Elizabeth Debicki (Berenice Hollis).
A plot synopsis for The Burnt Orange Heresy reads:
“The art world and the underworld collide in director Giuseppe Capotondi’s elegant and erotic neo-noir thriller, The Burnt Orange Heresy.
“Set in present day Italy, irresistibly charismatic art critic James Figueras (Bang) hooks up with provocative and alluring fellow American, Berenice Hollis (Debicki). He’s a classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his ambition, whilst she’s an innocent touring Europe, enjoying the freedom of being whoever she wishes.
“The new lovers travel to the lavish and opulent Lake Como estate of powerful art collector, Cassidy (Jagger). Their host reveals he is the patron of Jerome Debney (Sutherland), the reclusive J.D. Salinger of the art world, and he has a simple request: for James to steal a Debney masterpiece from the artist’s studio, whatever the cost.
“As the couple spend time with the legendary Debney, they start to realise that nothing about the artist nor their mission is what it seems. But James is a man of deep, lurking ambition and he will do anything, from arson and burglary to murder, in order to further his career…”