{"id":164165,"date":"2025-11-05T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164165\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:58:11","slug":"jesse-plemons-on-the-idea-of-directing-with-wife-kirsten-dunst-i-feel-like-the-two-of-us-i-would-be-nervous-to-do-it-on-my-own-could-add-up-to-a-pretty-good-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164165\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Plemons on the idea of directing with wife Kirsten Dunst: \u2018I feel like the two of us \u2013 I would be nervous to do it on my own \u2013 could add up to a pretty good director\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe Texan actor has played his fair share of oddballs and his latest in \u2018Bugonia\u2019 may be his quirkiest yet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762343891_647_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bugonia &#8211; Official Trailer<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jesse Plemons is explaining his homework to me. In Bugonia, another trippy, absurdist head-scratcher from Oscar-nominated Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos, the talented Texan portrays a disillusioned conspiracist named Teddy who hatches a frightening plan to kidnap the millionaire CEO of a major pharmaceutical company (Emma Stone\u2019s Michelle). <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He thinks she\u2019s an alien, sent here to study our world before her people destroy it. She tries to reason with her abductor\u2019s rational side, if such a thing exists. It all gets a bit weird, as you\u2019d expect from Lanthimos, and perhaps even Plemons \u2013 an actor who has played his fair share of disquieting oddballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texan actor has played his fair share of oddballs and his latest in \u2018Bugonia\u2019 may be his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-164165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115496977046285196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}