Rising model Deva Cassel is photographed by JUANKR [IG] in a fashion story for Harper’s Bazaar Taiwan [IG] May 2024. Melina Chen styles the fashion story on location at the Château Voltaire in Paris.

Cassel recently made her acting debut in Laura Luchetti’s upcoming “The Beautiful Summer.”

Now a superb, followup opportunity for the model, actor and ambassador daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel has presented itself. She is filming ‘The Leopard’ in Rome, playing the role that originally belonged to Claudia Cardinale.

Deva Cassel in ‘The Leopard’

The 1963 original movie ‘The Leopard’, an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The ambitious six-part series for Netflix is based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and is set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily. All reports describe the project as Netflix’s most ambitious Italian original project to date.

Production is happening now in Rome before moving to the Sicilian cities of Palermo, Syracuse and Catania.

Deva Cassel plays the critical role of Angelica Sedara, a young and beautiful middle class woman who emerges as a catalyst of social disruption.

Described by the press synopsis:

“Don Fabrizio is faced with an impossible choice. He has the power to engineer a marriage, between the rich and beautiful Angelica and his nephew Tancredi, that could secure his family’s legacy, but doing so he would break his favorite daughter, Concetta’s heart. The series will be a modern exploration of timeless themes – power, love, and the cost of progress.”

On the topic of social disruption, read Anne’s commentary about Vogue Portugal’s April 2024 issue honoring ‘The Carnation Revolution’ (Revolução dos Cravos) that took place 50 years ago last Thursday in Lisbon.