Singer/songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers each discovered author/director Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid to be actually scary
When JoBlo’s personal Chris Bumbray wrote his evaluate of Hereditary and Midsommar author/director Ari Aster‘s newest movie Beau Is Afraid (you may learn the evaluate HERE), he struggled to determine which style label greatest described it. He wrote, “Whereas Aster is thought for his horror movies, this isn’t really easy to categorise. It has horror parts and placing scenes of graphic violence, nevertheless it’s additionally blackly comedic. Sure, in some methods, you would possibly name this a comedy, albeit not the ‘haha’ kind. It’s additionally a Freudian psychodrama.” However so far as singer/songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers are involved, Beau Is Afraid was a terrifying horror movie, as they each talked about being scared by it throughout a dialog revealed by Interview Journal.
Beau Is Afraid follows the mild-mannered however paranoia-ridden Beau as he embarks on a surreal odyssey to get house to attend his mom’s funeral, realizing his best fears alongside the way in which. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Parker Posey, and Kylie Rogers.
Right here’s how the topic got here up within the dialog between Rodrigo and Bridgers:
BRIDGERS: Are you a scary-movie man or what?
RODRIGO: I’m a giant thriller woman, however I watch just a few scary motion pictures right here and there. Is that your jam?
BRIDGERS: Surprisingly, no. I hate a scary film. If there’s any excuse for my mind to have intrusive ideas it’ll take it.
RODRIGO: Oh, undoubtedly. I persuade myself that I see shit after I come house from watching Insidious or one thing. [Laughs] Additionally, I watched that new Ari Aster film Beau Is Afraid and I acquired so scared. I actually needed to stroll out of the theater. I’ve by no means had such a visceral response to a film in my life. It felt like a nasty acid journey.
BRIDGERS: [Laughs] I’m so glad you introduced that up, since you are proper. That’s the scariest film I’ve ever seen, however I used to be laughing the complete time.
RODRIGO: That’s the one cheap response. Your physique simply can’t course of it. It’s a must to giggle.
I haven’t seen Beau Is Afraid but myself, however I’ve to confess that I’m extra more likely to get round to watching it quickly after listening to how freaked out Rodrigo and Bridgers had been whereas watching it.
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