Emma Stone's next film with Yorgos Lanthimos after big Oscar win is finally set in the present — watch teaser
After the Victorian steampunk fantasia of “Poor Things,” the director and actress’ new summer collab, “Kinds of Kindness,” flashes forward to the modern day.
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos have wasted no time following up their recent Oscar wins.
The Best Actress-snagging star and Poor Things director already have a new movie coming out this summer, and now we’ve gotten the first trailer for it. One big takeaway from the short teaser? Kinds of Kindness seems to be set in the modern day — or something like it.
The trailer begins with Stone driving a purple sports car and saying in a voiceover, “This is it: the moment of truth.” We then get brief glimpses of her wearing a modern suit and later a dress, both of which stray from her looks in previous collaborations with Lanthimos, such as the Victorian mishmash fashion of Poor Things (which won costume designer Holly Waddington an Oscar) and the 18th-century period garb of The Favourite.
Searchlight Pictures Emma Stone in ‘Kinds of Kindness’
In addition to Stone, Kinds of Kindness stars Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer (who doesn’t have to worry about being tied up with Euphoria season 3 anytime soon).
We have no specifics about who’s playing whom, but the brief scene of Qualley slapping Plemons seems like the second story from the description.
While talking to Entertainment Weekly last year about Poor Things, Lanthimos teased why he opted for a present-day setting with Kinds of Kindness, which at that point was still untitled. “You always have this desire, whenever you explore something in one way, then you feel the need to do something different,” Lanthimos said. “There are certain stories I think that just makes sense to explore them in a contemporary setting and others that you feel you can reveal more if you’re creating a world in a period setting with those kind of rules and visuals.”
Kinds of Kindness hits theaters June 21. Watch the trailer below.
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