Kinds of Kindness Interview: Joe Alwyn and Mamadou Athie on Characters By ComingSoon’s recently spoke with actors (The Favourite, Mary Queen of Scots, Boy Erased) and (Elemental, Jurassic World: Dominion, Underwater) about their roles in the new film , which is now playing in theaters. “Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader,” reads the official synopsis. : We weren’t jumping around.
We shot them in order. I think they shot one, two, and three, right? So one of the useful things on this film, normally, you are all over the place with a schedule and you’re shooting the end at the beginning and the beginning of the end. But one of the nice things here is they blocked off story order, which for people particularly like, you know, Jesse [Plemons] and Emily [Stone] was, I imagine a godsend.
: Can you imagine if that [was shot] out of order? I couldn’t just, like, I can’t do the movie. : I had a friend who used to work as a cop, and I asked him some questions about what that would be like. Especially, you know, the traffic stop.
The swimming instructor, he’s coaching kids, you know, so I figured I had that on lock. And the morgue nurse—he was an unethical mor.
