Hong Chau Joins Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons in Yorgos Lanthimos Film ‘And’ (Exclusive)

Hong Chau has joined the cast of the anticipated new film from “The Favourite” and “The Lobster” director Yorgos Lanthimos.Chau, who has been prolific in recent years, joins a stacked ensemble featuring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley.

Plot details are (frustratingly) under wraps from the Greek master of subversion, who has also given us “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Dogtooth.”Lanthimos directs from a script he wrote with Efthimis Filippou (reuniting after both “Lobster” and “Sacred Deer”).

Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing the project with Element Pictures and Film4.

Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element, Kasia Malipan and Lanthimos are producing.

Principal photography begins this month in Chau’s native New Orleans.Chau is best known for her critically acclaimed performance in the Paramount film “Downsizing,” co-starring Matt Damon and directed by Alexander Payne.

She received a Screen Actors Guild Award

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