Spot on analysis by Rupert Friend about not having to explain everything about art.

Rupert Friend was fantastic in Asteroid City and gave one of the best interviews I've seen in a while, brilliant stuff

Jeffrey Wright completely crushed each of his monologues in this movie with speed, precision, and nuanced humor. Such a standout in my opinion.

I KNOWWW THEY HAD THAT INTERVIEWER GAGGED they handled that question with so much grace. 11:19

It's crazy how much Jake and Jason look alike.

One of the most beautiful and perfect descriptions of art I have ever heard 11:55

Rupert friend is very well spoken

the painting is the painting, the art is the art

Great editing - the interviews flow together so well.

cast of other movies: lets talk about the film cast of wes movies: lets talk about the director

this is a great interview. - he really does tests the "wes anderson" thing to expose how great the wes anderson thing really is.

Rupert giving some heat at 12:00

some absolutely fantastic answers here, so great questions!

Super interview! Goede vragen en mooi de ruimte gegeven voor de antwoorden, bedankt!

Good interview

Apropos to the discussion about "what Wes meant with the wolf," I think it's definitely worth discussing what these things mean between audience members. In the end, the point of art is to imply something for the audience to infer. But the very fact that it's a static piece of art means that it can become a shared experience. We can hear one another's impressions, and by doing so, add to our own. But I think what Maya and Rupert are saying is that we already have the best way the artist can think of to express what he means. That's the art itself. To ask him to paraphrase or interpret it defeats the purpose of it. I loved the wolf at the end of Fantastic Mr. Fox, and it gets me tearing up too. I don't think it's pointless to ask why, I just think it's pointless to ask Wes. He already explained it. Now it's up to us to take his interior language, which he was lovely enough to share with us, and interpret that into our own interior language. To me, what's so beautiful and heartbreaking about the wolf is the profound kinship Mr. Fox feels with him, across the profound divide between them. He'll never be the wolf, nor would he even want to be. The wolf is a dream of adventure without end. Wildness. But there's no room in that dream for all the real-world things that matter to Mr. Fox-- his family, his community, a future with some kind of security. Chasing the dream of the wolf is what shattered his and his community's lives. And yet, that dream, and the kinship he feels with the wolf, is an inescapable part of him. I think the tear comes when he realizes that, as much as he longs for that dream, he must stop chasing it. The gulf between them is for his benefit. Crossing it spells doom for him, his family, everything that actually matters. Anyway, that was my take. I think Wes said it so much better, with just a fist in the air.

“I think, to be honest, all art is perhaps not really explainable, and that may be a definition of what art is. (…) For example, if you are in an art gallery, do you read the little card beside the painting and get more than you did just by being with the work? (…) I personally think the reason the painter painted the painting, is because there was no other medium in which to express themselves. So the little card or whatever else, is never going to be as powerful as the painting. The play is the play, the painting is the painting, the music is the music. To not dissect it but to just experience it, may be the point.” 11:56

Rupert Friend definitely talked his shit really well

Goed interview, Buschy!

Anyone else grow up watching Malcolm in the Middle, and can't help but feel a familiar "Dad" vibe whenever you see Brian Cranston? I feel attached to him and I've never met him! He made me laugh throughout my entire childhood.

I love hearing the actors talk with passion about projects like this. But when you take a beat to think about it, it’s all rather silly.

I see locked off shots and the pastel palette.. This can only mean it's Wes Anderson O'clock! 👍

OK, until this interview, I thought the actor playing Woodrow in Asteroid City also played Number Five in the Umbrella Academy. They should work together.

You "hit the moving target, bullseye". trust me. WHOA!

Now I'm thinking about ten songs about shoes...

what happened to Jason schwartzman's eyebrows??? I could barely recognise him :(

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I hope Maya Hawke turns out to be as good an actor as her father!

Is it me or did Maya adopt the cadence of how Wes speaks?

I really enjoyed watching this.. Thanks for this..

I'd be curious to ask Maya - how / or if her parents could be in a Wes Anderson film? like Uma probably, but Ethan is a writer too, maybe not he might "have notes"

Maya

Schwartzman totally roasted his young costar there...and the kid seemed oblivious

Rupert Friend was amazing as a secondary character in a show about the life of Jack Parsons that was not so good. Rupert really should have played Jack Parsons, and maybe it should have been a feature film instead of a CBS series.

I'm a simple woman, I see Rupert and I click

I wonder if all of Wes' movies are one whole connected universes woth the same people and soft pastel colors.

How it works that Tom Hanks looks like Bill Murray?

I'm a simple woman I see maya and I click

Yesterday, an alien crashed in a Vegas backyard. They caught a video of it in the sky on a police officers body came. It was the exact same green color Wes picked. Well, that is if anything you read in the news is true...

Black and Brown Shoes - Silver Jews

Rupert Friend looks like a deep fake Orlando Bloom

lols .. .

I think the key to being a good actor. Is the ability to ramble incoherently. Yet, maintain an aura of validity. 🤔

So Jake Ryan wasn't acting at all...

Why do i feel like wes is a strange commie.

So did Jason come out of the closet?

To be honest this is the worst movie I have ever sat through.

Except for Rushmore, I can’t stand his films.😢

not a fan of this anderson movie

Can someone, anyone explain to me why anyone thinks this is funny? Most of Wes Anderson's movies are just NOT very funny. Years from now, everyone is going to look at his work and say, "Why did we watch this crap and think it was funny?" These stars are getting shit-loads of money for doing it so why would they say anything to the contrary?

I’m sure the critics and the those who consider themselves intellectuals will rave over this movie. The casting was admittedly spot on, the dialogue interesting and sometime quite humorous but the movie itself was awful, actually painful to sit through.

i think Wes Anderson is on a mission to ultimately usher as many famous actors as he can into the world of indie cinema. im not complaining.