Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Cast on What the Film Says About America: “We’re on a Dangerous Road”

Ari Aster and his Eddington Cast is unpacking what the film about the United States says.

The filmmaker joined Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward and Luke Grimes at the Cannes press conference on Saturday after the premiere of the film at night.

The film takes place in May 2020 and develops in a small fictional city in New Mexico, where local sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) decides to run against the charismatic and conscious mayor of the conscious, Ted García (Pascal). As Joe’s campaign intensifies, so does the pandemmonium of the Pandemia era with news coverage and publications on social networks that fueling the flames of the right -wing conspiracy, the increase in racial calculations and protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd.

«I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety about the world, and I wanted Eddington. «In the last 20 years, we have fallen into this era of hyper individualism … I wanted to make a movie about how the United States feels at that time, and I felt bad. I am very worried. We need to commit to each other. That is the only hope.»

«We are on a dangerous path, and I feel that we are living an experiment that went wrong,» he added. «It seems that there is no way out … I think people feel very helpless and very fearful.»

Pascal said Aster felt as a «complainant» about what is happening in the United States «I am so accustomed to lenses from the outside, because there are many ways to see politics, sociology, our culture very, very complex and with the Ari movie, I felt that we had a mole, a complainant of someone inside being as,» this is happening. » «.» «.» «.» «.» «.» «» «.» «

Pascal said in response to the generalized repression and deportation of Trump about Latin American immigrants in the US. My parents.

A journalist asked the group: «I have a film festival … and we had some of our guests from other countries that were afraid to come to America. Even Canada’s guests were afraid to come because the universities in Canada sent messages to the teachers on the border of Canada to the United States. This is unacceptable to me. Make any of you fears something in your file due to the great films you make?»

Pascal replied, causing applause: «Fear is the way they win. Stories keeps telling and keep expressing it. People who try to scare you, fuck those people.»

Stone and Pascal said the Aster script validated their fears about their country and what you can find online. «I felt that I wrote something that was all my worst fears about what that blockade experience was like,» said Pascal. «This building towards a sense of reality without attribution and then entering a chapter that becomes a point without return. As, there is no turning back. I definitely felt overwhelmed by that fear. It is lovely to have it confirmed by Ari.»

Stone added: «The only additional thing that scared me a bit in the algorithm (Internet) system was to investigate some of the things in this film that had not been in my algorithm and, unfortunately, he added them to my algorithm, because once you start looking in Google, you start seeing more and more things.»

Aster and his cast received a silenced response at the premiere of Friday night of the movie A24, with a 5 -minute foot ovation for one of the most anticipated films of the festival. However, a tear Joaquin Phoenix obtained a great applause from the multitude of Lumiere theater.

«I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to think,» Aster said after the movie ended, while thanking all his collaborators. «I feel very privileged to be here. This is a dream come true.» Then he added to laugh: «I don’t know. I’m sorry?»

The Hollywood ReporterThe main film critic David Rooney said Eddington In his review: «Essentially, a modern western fast with a vein of dark comedy, the film is neither suspense nor fun enough to work like anyone. For the most part, it is a distance work.»