Kinds of Kindness: Margaret Qualley & Mamoudou Athie Interview

One only has to look back on Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous films — Dogtooth, The Favourite, Poor Things — to understand there’s a fascination with the themes of control, “submission and power.“ While she may be gleefully trolling her costar Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World Dominion), Kinds of Kindness actress Margaret Qualley (Drive-Away Dolls) does make a great point when she teases, “A director obsessed with control?“ Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of three stories about a different cast of characters, told by Lanthimos’ ensemble: Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, Cannes’ Best Actor Jesse Plemons (Civil War), Hong Chau (Asteroid City), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), and briefly, Hunter Schafer (Euphoria). The three tales — a toxic working relationship, a partner lost at sea returning home changed, and a cult obsessed with life and death — are told with the filmmaker’s signature “unbridled freedom“ and his curiosity about humans and how we connec