Beau Is Afraid Actor Has No Idea What The Movie Is About, Had Basically No Prep Time
Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster's new movie, Beau Is Afraid, arrives this month, and one of the film's cast members doesn't know a whole lot about it.
Richard Kind (Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm) plays a lawyer, Dr. Cohen, but Kind was hired very late for the project after someone else dropped out. He had a meeting on Friday afternoon, agreed to the role the same day, and began practicing his lines right away. By the following Monday--just three days later--Kind was on set at 7 AM to film his part. Given the compressed timeline, Kind didn't have a chance to read the script, and thus doesn't know much about the movie beyond his part in it.
«Because I only had two days to memorize it, I didn't have the luxury of reading the script,» Kind told Entertainment Weekly. «After I did the movie, I was so intrigued. I said, 'I'm not reading the script, I'm going to see the movie.'»
Beau Is Afraid stars Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix as Beau, a troubled man who goes on a quest to find his mother Mona, who is played by Patti LuPone.
Kind isn't the only actor involved in a movie who doesn't know much about it. Helen Mirren, who starred in Shazam: Fury of the Gods, said she didn't understand the story because it was «too complicated.»
In addition to Phoenix, Beau is Afraid features Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Parker Posey. It releases in theaters on April 21.
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