“It was poetic,” says director Ari Aster

First, a happy april fool to moviegoers at the Alamo Drafthouse in New York who had purchased tickets to see Midsummar. With the lights on in the room and just before the film started, the director Ari Aster

he presented himself before the audience saying “you better go to the bathroom, because the movie you are about to see lasts three hours”thus announcing that they would see a surprise preview, three weeks before the actual release in American cinemas, Beau is scared. As well as Midsummar was much shorter, with a duration of 2h28min, but the genre is always that of the so-called “elevated horror” in which Asters excels.

After directing Hereditary And Midsummar, the director is now on a promotional tour for his third film. At the end of the screening of Beau is scaredanswered a series of questions posed to him by none other than Emma Stone, she also made a surprise appearance. The same protagonist of the film Joaquin Phoenix he showed himself in front of the spectators before the start, without, however, saying a word.

Joaquin Phoenix collapsed on the set: the story of the director of Beau is afraid

Beau is scared follows the story of an extremely paranoid man who has a troubled relationship with his mother. When news reaches him that she has passed away, he embarks on a long journey back home, during which he will have to face various absurd supernatural threats.
At the meeting with the public, Ari Aster

recalled an episode from the filming of the film in which Joaquin Phonenix is ​​knocked unconscious while acting out a scene with Patti LuPone in the role of his mother. The director explains that the actor was shot partially from behind, because at that moment the foreground was in favor of the actress.

We were shooting a very intense scene for Patti and the camera was on her, not on him, but at one point he falls out of frame. I got pissed because he was a good take. I didn’t understand what was going on, so I went to see, I went around the corner and I saw that he had collapsed on the ground.

I understood that it was something serious, because he let the people who flocked to him touch him, stay close to him and he allowed it. The point is that he passed out from an intense take on someone else, while he wasn’t on camera and he was just there to help the other performance, but he was so involved that he collapsed. I find it very poetic that he collapsed during someone else’s take.

Beau is scaredproduced by studio A24 (to which we owe Everything Everywhere All at Once And The Whale), will come out in Italian cinemas on April 27 with the distribution of I Wonder Pictures. below the making of the film.