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The actor Emma Stone has declared that she believes in the existence of aliens, saying she agrees with the astronomer Carl Sagan, who said it would be \u201cpretty narcissistic\u201d to think otherwise.<\/p>\n
In her new film Bugonia, Stone plays a chief executive of a major company who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien intent on destroying the planet.<\/p>\n
Given the themes, it was inevitable she would be asked about her views on \u201cultimate intelligence looking down on us\u201d during a press conference at the Venice film festival \u2013 to which she made her confession.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know about looking down on us, but one of my favourite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan and I fell madly in love with his philosophy and science and how brilliant he is,\u201d the Oscar winner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe very deeply believed [that] the idea that we\u2019re alone in this vast expansive universe \u2013 not that we\u2019re being watched \u2013 is a pretty narcissistic thing. So, yes, I\u2019m coming out and saying it: I believe in aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n
The black comedy directed by Stone\u2019s frequent collaborator Yorgos Lanthimos premieres in competition on the Lido on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
It is Lanthimos\u2019s third film in three years, all of which starred Stone. The Greek director won the Golden Lion at Venice two years ago for his gothic comedy Poor Things. It went on to win four Oscars, including best actress for Stone.<\/p>\n
Bugonia also stars Jesse Plemons (who featured in Lanthimos\u2019s Kinds of Kindness last year) as a conspiracist beekeeper, and Aidan Delbis as his partner in crime. The script was written by The Menu co-writer Will Tracy and is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan\u2019s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!<\/p>\n
Stone said she loved working with Lanthimos. \u201cI love the material that he\u2019s drawn to and the worlds he wants to explore, and the characters that he\u2019s been generous enough to let me try my hand at.\u201d<\/p>\n
She described Bugonia as particularly \u201creflective of this point in time in our world\u201d and a \u201creally fascinating and moving, funny and fucked up, and alive\u201d project.<\/p>\n
Lanthimos said he was \u201cimmediately blown away\u201d by the script.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t necessarily call it a dystopic film,\u201d the director said. \u201cIf anything, this film says this is happening now. Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon, people need to choose the right path in many ways otherwise I don\u2019t know how much time we have \u2013 with technology, with AI, with wars, and [with] the denial of all these things, how desensitised we\u2019ve become to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was disappointment when George Clooney did not appear at a press conference for his film, Jay Kelly, which is directed by Noah Baumbach and also premieres on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The actor was reportedly recovering from a sinus infection. \u201cEven movie stars get sick,\u201d Baumbach said.<\/p>\n
Clooney stars as a famous actor facing a late-career reckoning while crisscrossing Europe with his loyal manager and best friend, played by Adam Sandler. The cast includes Laura Dern and Billy Crudup.<\/p>\n
Baumbach said he and co-writer Emily Mortimer created the role for Clooney. \u201cIt was really important that the audience watching the movie have a relationship with the actor. We all, watching it, have a history with George, just the way the people in the movie have a history with Jay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not one to get emotional on set, generally, watching things, but I really did on this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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