US EditionYorgos Lanthimos Reveals the One Thing He Does to Annoy Emma Stone on Set and Jokes He Should Make an AI Avatar to Do Interviews
Lanthimos spends up to six months on promotional tours despite preferring filmmaking and jokes about using AI avatars for interviews to ease promotional demands.
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Yorgos Lanthimos Reveals the One Thing He Does to Annoy Emma Stone on Set and Jokes He Should Make an AI Avatar to Do Interviews
Despite having become a hugely successful filmmaker over the last decade and being a regular face on the awards circuit, Yorgos Lanthimos admits he still has very mixed feelings about the promotional aspect that comes with the job. Speaking on Saturday at a special BFI London Film Festival talk with “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong, the director was asked how he felt about commercial success. “I want it to happen, but I don’t it to happe…
Yorgos Lanthimos Jokes He Needs an AI Avatar to Get Out of Promoting His Films: “Do I Have to Say the Same Thing a Thousand Times?”
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker spoke with 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong at a BFI London Film Festival event on Saturday while promoting his new feature, 'Bugonia'.
Yorgos Lanthimos has been explaining the inexplicable: what he intends, what his cinema is about, why his characters speak as androids who have just discovered cruelty. Now he seems sick of it. During a talk at the London Festival with Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession, the Greek director joked about delegating his promotional duties to an artificial intelligence clone. "Do I have to say the same thing a thousand times?", he asked aloud. "I…
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