Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone star in And, Yorgos Lanthimos’ next film
During filming of Andnext movie Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The favorite), Willem Dafoeactor of The headlight (2019) and Spider man (2002), asked to Emma Stoneactress of La La Land: Singing Seasons (2016) and Cruella (2021), slap him 20 times.
In a profile published on The New York Times, Lanthimos revealed how dafoe asked to be repeatedly slapped, even with the cameras off. The actor “insisted how the move would look more genuine if he was actually being slapped.”
“That’s what you want from actors. To want to be a part of it anyway,” stated the filmmaker. Already Emma Stone highly praised the castmate of And: “There’s this acting instinct that a lot of actors have – the ‘look at me, look at me!’ [Willem Dafoe] it’s the opposite of that. Perhaps it has changed over the years.
A lot of actors I relate to have been doing this for a long time, and you know they’ve gone from ‘me’ to ‘us.’
At the moment, And is in post-production, with filming completed. The official synopsis has not been revealed so far. In addition to dafoe It is stonethe film’s cast also includes Hong Chau, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwynbetween others.
Source: Rollingstone
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