Emma Stone Reunites With Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos is examining the kinds of cruelty in his latest film “Kinds of Kindness.”

The feature, which was originally titled “AND”, marks Lanthimos’ eighth film and reunites the auteur with two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone following her recent “Poor Things” Best Actress win. Stone previously garnered her first Oscar after starring in Lanthimos’ “The Favourite.”

While the plot details for the Searchlight Pictures release remain elusive, we do know that “Kinds of Kindness” is an anthology film with three separate storylines that collide. Stone stars alongside her “Poor Things” co-stars Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, plus Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chau, and Mamoudou Athie.

“It’s great to be working again with Emma,” Lanthimos told The Guardian about the project. “It makes it so much easier to have someone there who trusts you so much, and who you trust so much.” The duo are next set to work together again on Lanthimos’ upcoming “Save the Green Planet,” a remake of the Korean film of the same name.

He also teased that the contemporary film takes place in the U.S., was filmed in New Orleans, and has “three different stories, with four or five actors who play one part in each story, so they all play three different parts.”

Lanthimos said, “It was almost like making three films, really. It’s all shot and we have started editing.”

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