Asteroid City
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- discussed in biography
- In Wes Anderson
In 2023 Anderson released Asteroid City, which centers on a group of junior stargazers who assemble in a fictional town in the Southwest in 1955. Joining Schwartzman, Cranston, and Norton in the comedy drama film were Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, and Jeffrey Wright. It was nominated for the Palme…
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- Brody
- In Adrien Brody: The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Brutalist
…The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). In addition, he voiced the Field Mouse in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
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- Carell
- In Steve Carell: The Morning Show and Broadway debut
…cast for Wes Anderson’s dramedy Asteroid City. The following he made his Broadway debut, headlining a revival of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. The production received positive reviews. Carell later lent his voice to If (2024), an animated comedy about a young girl who can see people’s imaginary friends. The movie…
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- Chau
- In Hong Chau: Other roles from the early 2020s
…more offers, including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (2023), Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness (2024), and Doug Liman’s The Instigators (2024), in which she worked again with Matt Damon. She also had a recurring role on the Netflix series The Night Agent (2023). “I’ve had opportunities to be in bigger tent-pole…
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- Dafoe
- In Willem Dafoe: The Lighthouse, Poor Things, and Nosferatu
These included Asteroid City, which reunited him with 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…
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- Norton
- In Edward Norton: Later credits
…Anderson, as a playwright in Asteroid City, and a year later he portrayed folksinger Pete Seeger in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. His performance in the latter film earned him a fourth Oscar nomination, for best supporting actor.
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- Robbie
- In Margot Robbie
…joined an all-star cast in Asteroid City, a dramedy directed by Wes Anderson. Later that year she starred in Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie. Robbie was cast as the iconic—and controversial—doll, who undergoes a crisis when she enters the real world. The film, which both celebrates and criticizes the toy,…
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