Pedro Pascal calls Ari Aster’s new film Eddington A story filled with “all our worst fears” in today’s world, especially the post-avid-19 world.
During the Cannes 2025 event, the 50-year-old Chilean-American actor, as well as filmmaker Aster and actor Joaquin Phoenix, explained how the film deals with Maga and Donald Trump culture.
For the UNVERS, Eddington Concerns what happened after Covid, from the rise of social media to the way black life affected the country.
The film follows the crisp sheriff Joe Cross, played by Phoenix, who decides to go against the mayor of the city, Ted Garcia, played by Pascal, but things are not going in his favor, so he tries to go manage the situation by himself.
During the event, Pascal was asked how the film policy was linked to the Trump era, to which he replied: “It is very scary to participate in a film that talks about problems like this; It is far too intimidating a question to attack me.
He continued: “I felt like [Aster] Wrote something that was all our worst fears because this locking experience was already a fracturing company. This was built towards a sense of reality without attachment, and there is a point not to go back. I was overwhelmed by this fear, and it is wonderful, it was confirmed by Ari. »»
ASTER spoke of the film saying: “I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety. I wanted to try to retreat and show what it does to live in a world where no one can agree on what is real.”
“I have the impression that during the last 20 years, we have fallen into this age of hyper-individualism and this social force which was previously in liberal mass democracies, which is one thing contained in the world, which has disappeared now. Cavid looked like when this link was finely cut for good,” he noted.
It is relevant to mention that Eddington will be published in the cinemas on July 18, 2025.
