Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things
The maverick director and his trusted cast on making Kinds of Kindness, the βbonkersβ film causing a stir on the Croisette
Joe Alwyn, the British star of one of the most disturbing films to compete at the Cannes festival this year, has given his verdict on making the βbonkersβ Kinds of Kindness, which features scenes of group sex, cannibalism and violence and in which Alwyn has to perform a drug rape on the character played by Oscar-winner Emma Stone. βYou have to try not to unpack it all too much, or you get it stuck in your head,β he said on Saturday.
The 33-year-old, until now best known as a former partner of Taylor Swift, has been thrust into the glaring lights of Cannes this weekend, but has also had to survive entering the odd imagination of Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos. Alwyn said the best way to prepare himself for Lanthimosβs unsettling and explicit screen world had been to βtrust him, trust him, trust himβ. βIt is bizarre and strange and bonkers and special,β Alwyn added, βbut one of the reasons I love his films is because you feel it first, before you try to understand it all.β
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