Hong Chau Joins Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film ‘And’

Hong Chau has joined the solid of the anticipated new movie from “The Favorite” and “The Lobster” director Yorgos Lanthimos.

Chau, who has been prolific lately, joins a stacked ensemble that includes Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley. Plot particulars are (frustratingly) beneath wraps from the Greek grasp of subversion, who has additionally given us “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Dogtooth.”

Lanthimos directs from a script he wrote with Efthimis Filippou (reuniting after each “Lobster” and “Sacred Deer”). Searchlight Footage is financing and distributing the undertaking with Component Footage and Film4. Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Component, Kasia Malipan and Lanthimos are producing. Principal pictures begins this month in Chau’s native New Orleans.

Chau is finest identified for her critically acclaimed efficiency within the Paramount movie “Downsizing,” co-starring Matt Damon and directed by Alexander Payne. She obtained a Display screen Actors Guild Award nomination for excellent efficiency by a feminine actor, in addition to a Golden Globe nom, for her efficiency as a jailed political activist working within the slum of a luxurious resort. She went on to an acclaimed flip in HBO’s “Watchmen” and in Amazon’s Julia Roberts-led “Homecoming.”

She is going to subsequent be seen in Mark Mylod’s “The Menu” (additionally from Searchlight), which will probably be launched Nov. 18, and in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” reverse Brendan Fraser, hitting theaters Dec. 9. Different upcoming initiatives embody A24’a “Displaying Up,” the Netflix sequence “The Night time Agent” and Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid Metropolis.”

She is repped by CAA, The Lede Firm, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.