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Joaquin Phoenix Just Can't Look Nathan Lane In The Eyes On ‘Beau Is Afraid’, Scared He'll Break Character

During filming the next Ari Aster thriller, the Oscar winner was instructed not to look Nathan Lane in the eye. While the story has long been kept a secret, we do know that it centers on a paranoid guy (Phoenix) who sets off on an epic quest to return home to his mother in the director of "Hereditary" and "Midsommarnext "'s twisted and audacious thriller. Lane and Amy Ryan appear to play Beau's kidnappers in the teaser. Furthermore included are Parker Posey, Patti LuPone, and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
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Lane said during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”: “It’s funny. He and I, Joaquin, we really hit it off, although we have very different sensibilities. He’s very intense, and I am just tense, but he thought I was funny, so every time we did a take he would say, ‘I can’t look you directly in the eyes, or I’ll break up. So just know that in every close-up and in a scene with me, he’s just looking directly at my nose.”
The long-gestating film, originally named "Disappointment Blvd.," is expected to open in theaters on April 21, 2023, according to A24. When "Disappointment" was formally unveiled in February 2021, "Midsommar" filmmaker Aster previously stated that his upcoming movie will be a four-hour "nightmare comedy." Aster directed a 2011 short film with the same name. In that short film, a neurotic middle-aged man's journey to see his mother is delayed when his door's keys are abducted inexplicably. A series of disturbing experiences that get progressively more frightening plague him after that.

Aster recently assured that his upcoming motion picture is absolutely not a horror movie: “It might take me a few movies before I wind back around to, but I love horror and I’m sure I’ll be back, head trauma will ALWAYS have a place in my films.”
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