Batgirl actor joins Emma Stone’s Alien Conspiracy movie, reuniting with director 7 years later

A Batgirl actress joins the cast of BugoniaEmma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ next movie, reuniting with the director seven years after their first film. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Stone and five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lanthimos have collaborated four times on The favoriteThe short film Bloom, Poor thingsAnd Kinds of Kindness. Their next project, based on the 2003 South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the green planet!Also stars Jesse Plemons, reuniting with Stone and Lanthimos after Kinds of kindness.

Now, another actor has joined Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ next movie. Alicia Silverstone, who played Batgirl in 1997 Batman and Robinjoined the cast of BugoniaAccording to VarietyMarking a reunion with Lanthimos after starring in his 2017 film, The killing of a sacred deer. However, details about Silverstone’s role in Bugonia are kept under wraps.

What the casting of Alicia Silverstone means for Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos continues to collaborate with the same actors

Throughout his career, Yorgos Lanthimos constantly collaborated with the same actorsSome of them include Colin Farrell, Olivia Colman, William Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley. The trend is set to continue with his next film BugoniaWhat will be the director’s fourth feature film collaboration with Emma Stone, and fifth overall including their 2022 short film Bloom. Jesse Plemons starred in Kinds of KindnessWin the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, and is also reuniting with Lanthimos for Bugonia.

After Stein and Plemons, Alicia Silverstone is the third actor who was included Bugonia who has worked with Lanthimos before. She stared at it The killing of a sacred deer as the mother of Barry Keoghan’s character, Martin, and appears in a key scene where she interacts with Colin Farrell’s character, Steven. Although her screen time is limited, her appearance is quite memorable, leaving a lasting impression for Lanthimos to cast her again seven years later in Bugonia.

Our take on the casting of Alicia Silverstone in Bugonia

Who could she be playing?

With a script written by Emmy winner Will Tracy (Successionthe menu), Bugonia Follows two conspiracy-minded young men who kidnap the powerful CEO of a major corporation, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. It is unclear who will play the female CEO, although Emma Stone will likely take the lead role, and Alicia Silverstone should take a smaller supporting roleAs she did The killing of a sacred deer. However, if their previous collaborations are any indication, Silverstone should make a memorable impression on Lanthimos’ next film, Bugonia.

Source: Variety