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Caleb Landry Jones on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Venice Entry ‘Harvest,’ Auditioning for ‘Star Wars’ and How Luc Besson’s Upcoming ‘Dracula’ is a ‘Touching Story’ About ‘Love Being Ripped Away From You’
Caleb Landry Jones on Venice Entry ‘Harvest,’ Auditioning for ‘Star Wars,’ How Luc Besson’s ‘Dracula’ is a ‘ReallyTouching Story'
For Landry Jones, who won the Palme d’Or for his portrayal of an Australian mass shooter in Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram” and has become renowned — and sought after — for playing figures on the fringes of society, “Harvest” represented “something probably missing from cinema right now, a way of making movies and the kinds of characters we’re seeing.” Given the trials of its production and the fact films such as “Harvest” are just “so fucking difficult” to get off the ground, Landry Jones — who in his non-acting time is a keen musician, releasing his debut studio album of psychedelic rock in 2020 — says he’s incredibly proud that it has been recognized with a competition slot and to for him to been part of Tsingara’s vision. Landry Jones may have become a muse to Besson and a go-to for filmmakers wanting to further expand his growing library of outsiders, misfits and ne’er do wells, including Tsangari and Kurzel, but also Brandon Cronenberg (he played a salesman of celebrity pathogens in “Antiviral”), Jordan Peele (Alison Williams’ racist brother in “Get Out”) and David Lynch (a drug-addled miscreant doomed to failure in his “Twin Peaks” revival).
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