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Willem Dafoe On Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds Of Kindness’: “It Makes You Question Social Conditioning”

'Kinds Of Kindness': Yorgos Lanthimos, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie And Hunter Schafer Talk The New Anthology At Cannes

The project sees Lanthimos reteaming with Poor Things ‘ Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, and bringing in Hong Chau ( The Whale), Mamoudou Athie ( Underwater) and Hunter Schafer ( Euphoria). “I just showed up every day and tried to say yes and work off of what everybody else was doing, and tried to play with what was in front of me… I didn’t want to be analytical… because you’re going to get something different each time you watch the film, and then just doing different takes you get something different… I think when you get a little bit too brainy about it, it just dies.” Athie added, “I keep on describing this movie as a fever dream and that was kind of the experience of making it for me as well, because I was like, ‘Man, I don’t know what’s going on.

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