French - English actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, who appeared explicitly in von Trier's Antichrist a few years ago, will play Joe, as the story is about her «
hidden erotic desires» and spans her life story from a young age to age 50.
Often, there is an implication of an unspecified — or even perverse — eroticism, which does not concern sexuality in the sense of
erotic desire, but instead our instincts and our
hidden dark side.