Yorgos Lanthimos discusses working with Emma Stone, suffering for his art, and directing a Bourne movie

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[upbeat music] Hello there. Welcome to a bonus, wow, that was loud, installment of the Louis Theroux Podcast. Lucky you. [gentle music] For this special bonus episode, I'm delighted to be joined, I won't keep doing that, by a BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning visionary filmmaker who goes by the name of Yorgos Lanthimos. Why? Because that's his name. Over the past 15 years, Yorgos has become one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema with films like the acclaimed and Garland-did Poor Things. That had Emma Stone in it. It was like a surrealist, steampunk re-imagining of the Frankenstein myth with a woman as the monster. And The Favorite with Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman. That was sort of about Queen Anne, wasn't it? She raced lobsters in her hall, and a lot of it was filmed with a fisheye lens. He's got a very amazing, very amazing... Listen to my language. I should be a film critic. He's got a, an amazing eye. Has he? He uses funny lenses. I already sound like a moron if Yorgos is listening to this. And that's just a small sampling of Yorgos' oeuvre. There is also Dogtooth, which was the first of Yorgos' films to put his name on the map, and the first one I saw. Darkly comic, you might say, about