{"id":1130498,"date":"2026-08-04T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:39:21","slug":"olivia-taylor-dudley-francois-arnaud-to-star-in-godstar-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130498\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Taylor Dudley &#038; Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud To Star In &#8216;Godstar&#8217; (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/olivia-taylor-dudley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-taylor-dudley\" data-tag=\"olivia-taylor-dudley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Taylor Dudley<\/a> (Touch Me) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/francois-arnaud\/\" id=\"auto-tag_francois-arnaud\" data-tag=\"francois-arnaud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud<\/a> (Heated Rivalry) star in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/godstar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_godstar\" data-tag=\"godstar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Godstar<\/a>, a dark comedy-drama from director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/oren-shai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oren-shai\" data-tag=\"oren-shai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oren Shai<\/a>, which has wrapped production in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blu-hunt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blu-hunt\" data-tag=\"blu-hunt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blu Hunt<\/a> (The Dead Thing) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-urbaniak\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-urbaniak\" data-tag=\"james-urbaniak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Urbaniak<\/a> (Oppenheimer),\u00a0Godstar\u00a0follows Ronnie Dalton (Dudley), a sharp-tongued, self-destructive New York actress, as she arrives in Los Angeles to rehearse a revival of the play that made her famous opposite Sky Blue (Arnaud), the charismatic former lover who abandoned her at the height of their careers. One savage rehearsal day strips away every performance they\u2019ve perfected in the 15 years since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Godstar\u00a0is the second feature from Shai on the heels of\u00a0The Frontier, a neo-noir that world premiered at SXSW. The project marks the screenwriting debut of Nicole Morier, a songwriter who has worked with artists like Britney Spears and Charli xcx. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dustin Cook and Linda Ajeti produced\u00a0under the Bureau of Content and Sabertooth banners. David Guglielmo and Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette served as co-producers, with Claire Koonce and Charlene Lee, CSA overseeing casting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shai told us, \u201cGodstar\u00a0is a deeply personal film for many of us involved. A film about artists making their own tragedies and the heavy dues art requires. Equal parts dark comedy and waking nightmare. I\u2019m lucky to have been able to bring Nicole\u2019s twistedly brilliant script to life with such an incredible cast whose performances inspired me every day on set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dudley is best known for starring as Alice Quinn on Syfy\u2019s\u00a0The Magicians, which ran for five seasons. Her recent film credits include\u00a0Touch Me, which premiered in the Midnight section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and fellow Sundance title\u00a0Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. She is represented by Innovative Artists and Strand Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arnaud is part of the cast of the Peabody Award-winning HBO Max series\u00a0Heated Rivalry. His latest film credits include\u00a0Twinless,\u00a0Fucktoys\u00a0and\u00a0Someone\u2019s Daughter, and he also recently wrapped on Hulu\u2019s limited series\u00a0Count My Lies. Set to make his Broadway debut this winter in\u00a0Three Days of Rain, he is repped by Independent Artist Group, Impression Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunt is represented by Gersh, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Urbaniak by Buchwald and Endorse Management Group; and Shai by Gersh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Olivia Taylor Dudley (Touch Me) and Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud (Heated Rivalry) star in\u00a0Godstar, a dark comedy-drama from director Oren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[307588,4080,77,307589,307590,307591,307592,307593,16,15],"class_list":["post-1130498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blu-hunt","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-franu00e7ois-arnaud","tag-godstar","tag-james-urbaniak","tag-olivia-taylor-dudley","tag-oren-shai","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117039174192408023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}