Shooting stars Alice Englert and Elle Fanning may have a blast in upcoming film Bomb

Hollywood ‘veteran’ Elle Fanning and relative newcomer Alice Englert are about to move nuclear.

The teenagers will lead Bomb, director Sally Potter’s new film about two young rebels on the forefront of political, social and sexual change.

Bomb is decided in London within the early Sixties at a time when the Cold War met the sexual revolution.

Filming at the BFI and BBC Films production begins in early February in and around London and the South Coast, with Elle (who appeared during this summer’s blockbuster Super playing Ginger, described because the ‘brainy’ one that desires to become involved with the anti-nuclear movement.

Alice, as Rosa, is more keen on boys.

Elle will play a more grown-up 16 on screen than her real-life 13 while Alice, 17, daughter of Oscar-winning director Jane Campion and picture-maker Colin Englert, will play a year younger than her age.

Potter, best known for her celebrated movies Orlando and The Tango Lesson, confirmed the casting, noting that Elle has a ‘subtlety and range beyond her years’. 

‘She will be able to move you to  tears, then remove darkness from the room along with her radiant smile.’

She said Alice ‘is a gorgeous, intelligent young woman with the films in her bones. Together, playing teenage rebels, they’re certain to be a couple of firecrackers.’

Elle has more experience, having made her first major film, i’m Sam, opposite Sean Penn when she was two.

Her credits include The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Cameron Crowe’s forthcoming drama We Bought A Zoo.

Co-star: Alice Englert will star alongside Elle Fanning inside the upcoming film Bomb, set in London

Alice started as an open-mic performer in Sydney and began acting when cast in Roland Joffe’s movie Singularity, that is shooting now.

And she walked the red carpet on the Cannes Film Festival (not her first visit) this year together with her mother, so the art of cinema is terribly much in her blood.

Potter and her producer Christopher Sheppard used Facebook to get candidates to audition.

In all 1,500 girls sent in videos of themselves and Potter and her team met 30.

But, in spite of everything, the 2 leads were cast the old-fashioned way using gut instinct and a casting director.