Poor Things
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Willem DafoeThe Lighthouse, Poor Things, and Nosferatu…Anderson, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s award-winning Poor Things. Dafoe was cast as a brilliant but sadistic scientist in the latter movie, which was inspired by Frankenstein. In 2024 he appeared in another Lanthimos film, Kinds of Kindness, a dark comedy about control and consent. That year he also reunited with Eggers…
Read More…Anderson, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s award-winning Poor Things. Dafoe was cast as a brilliant but sadistic scientist in the latter movie, which was inspired by Frankenstein. In 2024 he appeared in another Lanthimos film, Kinds of Kindness, a dark comedy about control and consent. That year he also reunited with Eggers…
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Margaret QualleyOther roles in the 2020s…features by director Yorgos Lanthimos: Poor Things (2023), which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Qualley is “willing to try things without questioning anything, and she loves to explore,” Lanthimos told Bazaar in 2023. “I also like the fact that she doesn’t take herself too…
Read More…features by director Yorgos Lanthimos: Poor Things (2023), which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Qualley is “willing to try things without questioning anything, and she loves to explore,” Lanthimos told Bazaar in 2023. “I also like the fact that she doesn’t take herself too…
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Mark RuffaloSmashing as the Hulk, Oscar-nominated turn in Spotlight, and other works…type in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed Poor Things to play a bawdy and emotionally fragile lawyer who attempts to control a reanimated woman, played by Emma Stone. In the TV series Task (2025– ) he plays an FBI agent tormented by a recent family tragedy who returns to field duty to…
Read More…type in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed Poor Things to play a bawdy and emotionally fragile lawyer who attempts to control a reanimated woman, played by Emma Stone. In the TV series Task (2025– ) he plays an FBI agent tormented by a recent family tragedy who returns to field duty to…
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Emma StoneCruella, Poor Things, and Bugonia…in the dark comedy fantasy Poor Things, which was directed by Lanthimos. For her performance, Stone won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy film and an Oscar for best actress. She continued to work with Lanthimos, starring in his Kinds of Kindness (2024), a…
Read More…in the dark comedy fantasy Poor Things, which was directed by Lanthimos. For her performance, Stone won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy film and an Oscar for best actress. She continued to work with Lanthimos, starring in his Kinds of Kindness (2024), a…
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Ramy YoussefOther television and film work… in Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantasy comedy-drama Poor Things. Also that year Youssef lent his voice to the character of Safi in Disney’s animated fairy tale Wish, and he directed an episode of the popular television show The Bear (2022– ). In 2024 Youssef released a second stand-up special, Ramy Youssef: More…
Read More… in Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantasy comedy-drama Poor Things. Also that year Youssef lent his voice to the character of Safi in Disney’s animated fairy tale Wish, and he directed an episode of the popular television show The Bear (2022– ). In 2024 Youssef released a second stand-up special, Ramy Youssef: More…
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