Deva Cassel and her companion Saul Nanni, incandescent couple in the Cheetah trailer

Deva Cassel's acting career is taking shape. Coming soon to the poster of The Beautiful Summer by Laura Luchetti where she plays the model of a painter, the 20-year-old young woman is also expected in a legendary role. In the new adaptation – in series – of Cheetaha cult film by Luchino Visconti released in 1963, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the same year, she plays Angelica Sedara, formerly played by Claudia Cardinal. As for the role of Tancredi Falconeri, played at the time by Alain Delon, it is taken over by the Italian actor Saul Nanni who is none other than the companion of Deva Cassel. If the daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel had started to lift the veil on her romance in October 2024 via her social networks, she wanted to formalize her relationship last January during a Dior fashion show, the brand of which she is an ambassador.

If the release date of the Cheetah, directed, in part, by Tom Shankland (The Snake) has not yet been announced, the series also includes Kim Rossi Stuart in the role of the Prince of Salina and Benedetta Porcaroli in that of Concetta. As for the story, it promises to be a modern, but faithful, reinterpretation of the book by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa published in 1958.

The synopsis? “Sicily, 1860. At the dawn of the unification of Italy and the disappearance of the old aristocratic order, Don Fabrizio Corbera, prince of Salina, who leads a life of privilege in a world where beauty reigns, understands that his family's future is threatened. He will have to forge new alliances, each one putting his principles in danger. Don Fabrizio then finds himself faced with an insoluble dilemma. To save the family heritage, he can marry his nephew Tancredi to the rich and beautiful Angelica… at the risk of breaking the heart of his favorite daughter, Concetta. In this mythical and romantic epic, Deva Cassel and Saul Nanni should do honor to their predecessors.