His performance as a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps an executive has put him in the awards season mix. But letting go of the character wasn’t easy.

The Greek director reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a remake of a Korean movie about a conspiracy theorist convinced of an alien threat.

Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbis star in the latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos.

"Day in and day out, we were only ever serious for 30 seconds," Stone jokes to PEOPLE of filming the Yorgos Lanthimos–directed film

The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His movies have perhaps inspired the most “What?!” reactions of the last decade, partly because they’ve tried so hard to do so.

Bugonia' screenwriter Will Tracy talks about the evolution of Emma Stone's character Michelle Fuller, a pharmaceutical CEO.

Jesse Plemons told Seth Meyers that his wife, Kirsten Dunst, gave him tips for managing the long hair had while filming 'Bugonia.' The actor stars in director Yorgos Lanthimos's new film alongside Emma Stone.

On the Bugonia press tour, the actor has been dressing up a storm in autumn-ready corduroy shirts and tweedy plaid jackets.