His face did not go unnoticed during the 78th Cannes Film Festival this year. At 24, the British actress Mia Threapleton is the revelation of the new Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician schemePresented in competition at Croisette, which is launched in theaters this Wednesday, May 28.
In this film, the actress embodies Sister Lieesl, a nun outside the convent, designated as the only heiress of her father Zsa-Zsa, played by Benicio del Toro. Notably gives the answer to Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Rice Ahmed, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Mathieu Amalric.
If Mia Threapleton is one of the least famous names in the casting of The Phoenician schemeThe actress does not come out of nowhere, since it is none other than Kate Winslet’s eldest daughter, world cinema icon and director Jim Threapleton.
However, a heavy inheritance to use that the young actress is looking for to emancipate, as Kate Winslet explained in an interview in 2021. “What is good for her is that she has a different family name from mine, so she left under the radars and the people who made her spending castings did not know she was my daughter. Titanic.
“I discovered my love for cinema for myself”
Despite this desire for independence, he was with his mother that Mia Threapleton took her first steps in the cinema in 2014. Then, the young actress embodies the character of Hélène in the historical drama The King’s Gardens by Alan Rickman.
If the paper is too confidential to reveal it to the general public, however it helps consolidate Mia Threapleton in your choice to follow your mother’s footsteps and become an actress. A decision that claims to have taken alone, without the help of Kate Winslet.
“I was not influenced in what I wanted to do. I discovered my love for cinema alone,” said Mia Threapleton in an interview with Elle magazine outside the Cannes Film Festival.
It was in 2020 where Mia Threapleton continued her experiences behind the camera in the horror thriller DarknessWhere she plays the character of Alma. Then, in 2022, the British actress turned to television and played in the historical series Dangerous connectionsIn episodes of the British series Am … With his mother Kate Winslet then in the Apple TV+ series Bucaneerswhere she begins to stand out.
Result, Mia Threapleton is chosen to play with Jude Law and Alicia Vikander in the movie Queen’s game By Karim Aïnouz. This feature film presented in Cannes in 2023, recounts the life of Catherine Parr, wife of King Henri VIII.
“The announcement was vague”
And now he is in front of the Wes Anderson camera that Mia Threapleton continues his career as an actress. Questioned by the newspaper Le Monde, the actress explains that she was contacted, through her agent, to pass a audience for this feature film.
“The announcement was vague: there is no description of the character apart from the terms ‘Young girl’. I made a auditory video and, a few weeks later, they summoned me to London to meet the Wes assistant. They only gave me forty -five minutes to read some pages of the stage, a challenge for me who is dyslexic,” he reveals.
“A few weeks later, I receive another email that Wes wanted to meet me: then we talked about everything, very little about the movie,” continues the actress.
After a second meeting with Wes Anderson, a test with Benicio del Toro, the prayer falls to Mia Threapleton. “When my agent called me to tell me that I won the role of Sister Liesl, I was in the middle of the train,” he told the world.
“Then I smiled at the bicycle facilities to remind them and make sure that it was not an error. They laughed: of course it was not a mistake,” added the actress.
Thanks to this role, Mia Threapleton stands out as one of the revelations of the year 2025 in the cinema. And there is no doubt that this appearance in Wes Anderson should open doors to collaborate with other great directors.
Source: BFM TV
