Joe Alwyn & Mamoudou Athie Describe Yorgos Lanthimos as a Director: "He's a Master" | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Joe Alwyn & Mamoudou Athie chat with THR at the 'Kinds of Kindness' premiere and describe Yorgos Lanthimos as a director. Plus, they share what they think is the wildest or strangest scene in this film.

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00:00You are reuniting with Yorgos from working on The Favourite.

00:03This is your first time working with Yorgos.

00:05How would you describe him as a director?

00:08And was there any note that he gave you throughout this process

00:11or your process working with him before that really stuck with you?

00:15A little less, no. I mean, he did say that once.

00:19He's a master. He's very specific. He's very honest.

00:23He's very clear. He's candid. And he's sincere.

00:26And you see that in his work.

00:27It's not just, you know, wildly entertaining and just crazy for crazy's sake.

00:34It's specific and it's real investigation.

00:37Yeah, he's one of a kind.

00:38And if you get to work with people like that, you feel very, very lucky.

00:42He's, you know, a very singular director.

00:45He makes bold, challenging, provocative films.

00:48And I think we all just felt lucky to be a part of this for sure.

00:52I know, Joe, for you, you're also reuniting with Emma on this film

00:55from working with her on The Favourite.

00:57What was it like reuniting?

00:58And I know a lot of people felt that chemistry in the last film.

01:00So what was it like kind of tackling this project together?

01:03It was the best.

01:04It's always nice to return to working with people that you know.

01:07And Emily is no different to that.

01:10Emily and Yorgos and Robbie Ryan, to see the same faces.

01:13Again, there's familiarity there.

01:15There's trust. There's friendship.

01:17It makes a big difference.

01:18And it's really, really lovely.

01:20Sure. And finally, I wanted to say, I know for part of our THR review

01:24you called this film balls-to-the-walls strangeness.

01:27So what would, for both of you, balls-to-the-walls strangeness.

01:33So what would you say, for each of you,

01:36was probably the wildest or strangest scene in this film?

01:42The wildest or strangest?

01:43I mean, there's so many.

01:44There's too many.

01:45There's a couple.

01:46Pick one that sticks out to you the most.

01:48Joe's character in the second story.

01:52That was one of my favorite scenes when I read it and shot it.

01:55That's a weird scene.

01:56But fun. Kind of the weirder, the funner to do.

01:59Yeah, always.

02:00Yeah.

02:01Not Willem Dafoe in the orange Speedo, perhaps.

02:04Well, that was great to see it.

02:06Great to see it.

Joe Alwyn & Mamoudou Athie Describe Yorgos Lanthimos as a Director: "He's a Master" | THR Video

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