Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal hail Ari Aster a “rare director”
After co-starring in Ari Aster's new psychological thriller Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal have hailed the filmmaker a "rare director".
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Sat 17 May 2025 12:09, UK
After co-starring in Ari Aster’s new psychological thriller Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal have hailed the filmmaker a “rare director”.
Phoenix and Pascal star as the leads in the new movie, which is set during the COVID pandemic and circles around post-truthism and hyper-individualism. The official synopsis for Eddington, per A24, reads: “In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”
At the debut for the movie in Cannes, Phoenix pubicly celebrated the director, saying: “Ari’s a rare director that could be an actor because he just embodies what the characters are feeling in a scene.”
He continued to describe his directorial vision on set: “He is sometimes pacing behind the camera saying dialogue, so he looks like what the actors do. Sometimes you get lost, but he’ll come over and talk about it. He will always find something that is interesting and specific.”
Pascal added to this sentiment, confessing that he “thought [Aster] would be more pretentious and meaner somehow, but it was the opposite. He made me think of the characters as more human and had an empathetic approach to each take.”
During the same press conference, Aster revealed that he wrote Eddington in a state of “fear and anxiety about the world”. He set the film during the pandemic, he said, because, “COVID felt like the moment where that link was finally cut for good. and i wanted to make a film about what America feels like to me, and at that tine, and it felt bad. It feels bad. and I’m very worried.”
Eddington’s cast also includes Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Michael Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr and William Belleau.
The movie is set to arrive in theatres on July 18th.
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