As Yorgos Lanthimos rolls out another award-worthy film with Emma Stone for the third consecutive year, he’s due for some R & R.
The 5x Oscar nominee recently admitted he needs “a little break” after his latest movie Bugonia‘s wide release on Oct. 31, despite also intending to take a breather after his previous two titles, Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024).
“Well, I can’t keep doing that anymore. [Laughs] That’s what we’re certain of right now,” he told Collider, adding: “It’s a big mistake. I think I need a break. I’ve said that before in between the other three, but I’m serious now. You can hold me to it. I’m going to take a little break.”
Lanthimos’ pending hiatus comes after Poor Things earned him Academy Award nods for Best Picture and Best Director, while Stone won the award for Best Actress. The pair also made Kinds of Kindness while he completed post-production on Poor Things.
“I decide which film to make every time a script is ready, so when it is ready, and we’ve been working on something for such a long time, it just feels like a shame to just leave it there and wait,” he explained. “So, I kind of forced myself, almost, to try and find the time to do it immediately after I finished something.”
Lanthimos continued, “Like we shot Kinds of Kindness during that very long period of VFX on Poor Things, so I felt that I needed to do something during that time. Then, Bugonia, I had read three years before, and we worked with Will [Tracy] a little bit on the script, so it felt ready, and we just wanted to go out and make it. So, you find the will and the strength, but at some point, it runs out. We’re at that point.”
In Bugonia, now playing in select theaters, two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a powerful CEO (Stone), convinced she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth.
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