{"id":883776,"date":"2026-10-16T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:52:09","slug":"jenna-ortega-hopes-klara-and-the-sun-makes-people-put-down-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883776\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Ortega Hopes ‘Klara and the Sun’ Makes People ‘Put Down Phones’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJenna Ortega<\/a> hopes that her new film, the dystopian sci-fi \u201cKlara and the Sun<\/a>,\u201d can remind people to live in the moment in the age of AI and all-consuming technology. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think we gotta put our focus on one another and put down the computers and phones,\u201d the star told Variety on the red carpet at the movie\u2019s world premiere at London Film Festival<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrtega, wearing a stunning yellow lace dress and hair piece, added: \u201cRemember to be present and to appreciate people while they\u2019re standing right in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s bestselling 2021 novel of the same name, \u201cKlara and the Sun\u201d is set in a future where advances in genetic engineering have divided humans into strict social classes. Ortega plays Klara, an artificial android companion who is purchased for an ailing girl named Josie (Mia Tharia). \u201cKlara and the Sun\u201d is directed by \u201cThor\u201d helmer Taika Waititi and also stars Amy Adams<\/a> as Josie\u2019s mother, Aran Murphy (son of Cillian Murphy), Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tWaititi, Adams, Murphy and Lyonne all walked the London Film Festival red carpet on Thursday night, alongside Waititi\u2019s wife Rita Ora, author Ishiguro and a surprise appearance from Florence Pugh, who stunned in a blue floral gown with statement sleeves. Pugh enthusiastically greeted Ortega and Adams before they all posed for photos together alongside producer Rachel Forman.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFlorence Pugh, Amy Adams, Jenna Ortega and Rachel Forman at the \u201cKlara and the Sun\u201d world premiere in London.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for BFI<\/p>\n

\n\tStanding alongside Ortega, Adams added that everyone she\u2019s spoken to has gotten \u201csomething different\u201d out of the film. \u201cThat, to me, is a really successful film that communicates something different to each viewer. So I like hearing what people get out of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrtega clarified that though Klara is an \u201cartificial friend,\u201d she doesn\u2019t work like the AI that we know today.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAI I guess pulls all this information from the internet and Klara gets all her information from the real world,\u201d she said. \u201cSo that\u2019s a little bit different. She\u2019s kind of like a toddler in a sense. Playing her specifically in this film was really interesting because Taika wanted a more human approach, so he didn\u2019t want to do movement that was too robotic, maybe more sort of clumsy and unknowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWaititi echoed Ortega in saying that the film\u2019s message is to \u201cput the phone down.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would just like people to remember what friendship is, connect with people and just be,\u201d he said. \u201cJust be in the moment.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIshiguro acknowledged that, since his novel came out in 2021, the world\u2019s awareness and attitude about AI has changed greatly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis film doesn\u2019t address a lot of the anxieties that you and I may have right now about where we\u2019re going with the technology. I mean, I think quite rightly, it\u2019s really come center stage,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m aware that this film is coming out into a very different world to the one that my novel came out in five years ago, and I don\u2019t know how that will change people\u2019s expectations or how people look at things. But I\u2019ll say that this isn\u2019t another film about how an AI machine seems to be nice and then becomes sinister and ends up killing all the nice people in the film. It\u2019s not that sort of story.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIshiguro is wading more into film, confirming to Variety that he\u2019s working on a new project with Tim Burton, for which he penned an original script. Though Burton and Ishiguro have a mutual friend in \u201cWednesday\u201d star Ortega, he said she\u2019s not the one who introduced them. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought this was supposed to be a big secret!\u201d Ishiguro said. \u201cNo, Jenna didn\u2019t introduce us. Tim lives quite near where I live in North London, and I was dropping in on him in his very strange and wacky and beautiful house. I mean, it looks like a Tim Burton set. And we started to talk about a project and I wrote a script on spec. We decided to just do it privately between the two of us, and then take it to people.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe added that it\u2019s not a \u201cwar film,\u201d saying: \u201cGenre-wise, it\u2019s very hard to pigeonhole. It\u2019s a Tim Burton film!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKlara and the Sun\u201d is set to hit theaters via Sony Pictures on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Ortega hopes that her new film, the dystopian sci-fi \u201cKlara and the Sun,\u201d can remind people to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[117522,88,26319,164673,56151,206],"class_list":["post-883776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amy-adams","tag-entertainment","tag-jenna-ortega","tag-klara-and-the-sun","tag-london-film-festival","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}