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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness premiered on Friday at Cannes, and earlier that day, in an interview at the Deadline studio, the director explained his vision for his new anthology film, written with his The Favourite collaborator, Efthimis Filippou: “We told each other, should we try a different…

SPOILER ALERT: The series includes details about new Netflix series The Night Agent, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quirk. Gabriel Basso in ‘The Night Agent’ Netflix The Shield creator and S.W.A.T.…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her Oscar-nomination for her role in A24’s The Whale, Hong Chau has found her next project as she is set to join Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Apple recently landed the coveted package, which has Doug Liman on board to direct. Damon…

Hong Chau’s time has come. She was just in London over the weekend celebrating her supporting actress nomination for The Whale at the BAFTA Film Awards. And in about two and a half weeks she will be sitting in a prime seat at the 95th Academy Awards where…

Netflix has set a March 23 premiere date for action thriller The Night Agent and released a slew of first-look images. See them below and watch a teaser above. Created and showrun by Shawn Ryan (S.W.A.T., The Shield, the 10-episode drama stars Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI agent…

Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander representation prevailed at this year’s Oscar nominations, fueled largely by A24’s indie event, Everything Everywhere All at Once with 11 noms. The breakthrough comes in the wake of Parasite‘s 6 Oscar noms/4 wins in 2020, and Minari‘s six Oscar noms/one…

Hong Chau stole the show as a fierce one-legged Vietnamese activist in Alexander Payne's 2017 star-packed social satire Downsizing. Now, in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, she's doing it again: this time she plays Liz, a no-nonsense caregiver who helps reclusive 600-pound English professor Charlie (Brendan…

Hello and welcome to the Scene 2 See podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex associate editor and film writer at Deadline Hollywood. On today's episode is actress Hong Chau.  Hong Chau is the moment. She has delivered one fantastic performance after another. This year she starred in Showing Up…

Darren Aronofsky spent 10 years searching for the right actor to play Charlie in The Whale, a process he described as the "biggest hurdle" of making the film. "I spent a lot of time meeting and thinking about lots of different actors. People were also coming to me and suggesting different actors. But, [the choices]…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Tony winner Cherry Jones (Succession), Luis Guzmán (Shameless), Hong Chau (Watchmen) and Tony winner Reed Birney (Succession) have joined the cast of Peacock's Poker Face, a mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television. Details of their…

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau (Downsizing, Watchmen), DB Woodside (Lucifer, 24), Fola Evans-Akingbola (UK’s Call My Agent, Black Mirror), Eve Harlow (NeXT, The 100), Phoenix Raei (Clickbait, Stateless), Enrique Murciano (Bloodline, Father of the Bride 2) and Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets, Riverdale), have been cast as series…

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau is set to join Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in Searchlight’s dark comedy The Menu. Mark Mylod, who has played a major part in the success of HBO's Succession, will direct. Adam McKay will produce through his Hyperobject Industries banner along with Betsy Koch. The film is a darkly comedic…