At the global press conference for AsteroidCity, WesAnderson and the cast spoke about the film's ideas on grief and how they build camaraderie on set.
When sitting down to write the film that would eventually become Asteroid City, Wes Anderson, along with his co-writer Roman Coppola, had one name in mind: Jason Schwartzman.
“I know it was my anniversary, and I was going with my wife, but Wes was calling, so we pulled over,” Schwartzman explained. “And he said, you know, what I’m sure everyone here gets excited to hear, which was, ‘I’ve got an idea for something. I’m working on it with Roman. I can’t tell you much, but we have an idea for you for something. And we’re gonna work on it, and we’ll get back to you when it’s more completed. But you should be excited.
The exploration of grief In the fictional Asteroid City, a group of students and parents converge in the desert for the Junior Stargazer convention. Schwartzman stars as Augie Steenbeck, a wartime photographer and father of Woodrow , a Junior Stargazer winner. Augie recently lost his wife, a tragedy he struggles to share with Woodrow and his three daughters.
“I think when we have the conversation about what connects us, and it’s the enormity of this grief,” Johansson added. “My character says I don’t want that feeling, so I’m just gonna not have it. Which is so great and convenient. I mean, especially if you’re an actor, it’s perfect. You just do not have that feeling and erase it … Maybe you don’t want to either, and that’s perfectly fine. And that’s the world that she’s living in.
“It never felt like, ‘Oh, this is my part, this is your part.’ It always felt like everyone was lifting each other up,” Hawke said. “And that built chemistry really quickly and easily, I think.” The collaborative effort is one of the reasons why Asteroid City has been touted as his best film since Grand Budapest Hotel. In Digital Trends’ review, writer Alex Welch called Asteroid City a “dazzling technicolor dream” and no filmmaker alive is better than Anderson at “exploring how our interior and exterior lives can become at odds with each other.”
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