{"id":102924,"date":"2025-10-27T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:54:07","slug":"yorgos-lanthimos-needs-a-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102924\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorgos Lanthimos needs a vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After three years of torturing Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a> is ready for some much-needed R&R, or whatever cruel and deadpan version of relaxation a guy like Lanthimos prefers. Following a series of rapid-fire releases that resulted in the Oscar-winning hit, Poor Things<\/a>, the off-putting omnibus, Kinds Of Kindness, and the bald-screening inspiration<\/a>, Bugonia<\/a>, Lanthimos says he needs \u201ca little break.\u201d That much Emma Stone will do that to a person.<\/p>\n

When it comes to releasing movies at such a clip, Lanthimos concedes to Collider<\/a> that \u201cI can\u2019t keep doing that anymore.\u201d Ultimately, he confirms that he\u2019s \u201cgoing to take a little break\u201d because making movies this way was \u201ca big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big mistake,\u201d Lanthimos says. \u201cI think I need a break. I\u2019ve said that before in between the other three, but I\u2019m serious now. You can hold me to it. I\u2019m going to take a little break. I decide which film to make every time a script is ready, so when it is ready, and we\u2019ve been working on something for such a long time, it just feels like a shame to just leave it there and wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of forced myself, almost, to try and find the time to do it immediately after I finished something,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe shot Kinds of Kindness during that very long period of VFX on Poor Things, so I felt that I needed to do something during that time. Then, Bugonia, I had read three years before, and we worked with [screenwriter Will Tracy] a little bit on the script, so it felt ready, and we just wanted to go out and make it. So, you find the will and the strength, but at some point, it runs out. We\u2019re at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lanthimos used to be a little more patient in his decisions. After his breakout, Dogtooth, Lanthimos took two years before making his follow-up, Alps. Then it was four years before he returned with 2015\u2019s The Lobster. But once he had a foothold with American audiences, he released 2017\u2019s Killing Of A Sacred Deer and 2018\u2019s The Favourite in quick succession. Then it was a now-uncharacteristic five years before he returned in 2023 with Poor Things. Thankfully, with nothing on the schedule, Lanthimos is free to cook up more Oscar-winning sexual nightmares for us to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three years of torturing Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos is ready for some much-needed R&R, or whatever cruel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-102924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}