Ari Aster played an epic April Fool’s joke on moviegoers expecting a show midsummer but instead was treated to a screening of his latest film Beau is scared with Joaquin Phoenix.
The filmmaker and Phoenix presented the film to the public at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York. At the end of the three-hour screening, Emma Stone hosted a Q&A with Aster to discuss the film.
Speaking to Phoenix, Aster says that “everything has to feel fair” with the actor and that he likes to do multiple takes. The director shared an incident on the film’s set where Phoenix passed while Patti LuPone, who plays his mother in the film, was filming a scene.
“There was one scene that was really intense for Patti and it was a shot that was on Patti, it wasn’t on him and suddenly he fell out of his frame,” recalls Aster. “I was really angry because it was a really good shot. It felt confusing, so I turned the corner and it broke.”
Aster continued, “I knew it was bad because he was letting people touch him and pet him and he allowed it. The thing is he passed out in someone else’s lap, he wasn’t on camera and he helped them, he was there for them, to the point where he broke down. It’s very poetic that he collapsed in someone else’s lap.”
A24s Beau is scared revolves around “a paranoid man [who] begins an epic journey to return home to his mother.” The film stars Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Denise Menochet, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Richard Kind, Hayley Squires and Michael Gandolfini. The movie hits theaters on April 21.
Source: Deadline
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