With Kinds of Kindness now playing in select theaters and expanding this weekend, Collider’s Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to chat with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and Joe Alwyn, who previously worked with the director on 2018’s The Favourite opposite his Kindness costar, Emma Stone. While discussing the sets of Lanthimos’ visionary films, we learn a lot about how the filmmaker collaborates with his cast during his rehearsal process and throughout production, all the way to how the Safdie Brothers have inspired him to alter his editing process.
In Kinds of Kindness, Alwyn and Stone are joined by Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, and Margaret Qualley in an anthology of dark-humored tales of human connection, power, and control. Like his previous movies (Dogtooth, Poor Things, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, to name a few), Kindness depicts humans congregating together, having conversations, and, of course, dancing, but always with an element of absurdity to keep audiences slightly off-balance.
We were curious how working on films like these looks on set and how it might affect its cast, who must go to some dark places. During this conversation with Lanthimos and Alwyn, they talk about the director’s methods to ensure his cast feels comfortable while filming, no matter what they have to do on the day of, and what they do during rehearsal to guarantee each actor will be able to try new things on set. Alwyn discusses why he likes being a part of Lanthimos’ universe, what he does between takes, and why he doesn’t take his characters home with him.
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