If you’re planning to watch the new Yorgos Lanthimos, 50, film Kinds of Kindness, you may want to read this first. 

The upcoming film, which stars Willem Dafoe, 68, Jesse Plemons, 36, Emma Stone, 35 and Margaret Qualley, 29, premiered in New York on Thursday, and while walking the carpet, Plemons revealed that the film might make viewers feel ‘sick to their stomachs’. 

Kinds of Kindness follows three intense stories – the first is about Robert (Plemons), a businessman who allows his boss (Dafoe) to control every aspect of his life, up to and including attempting his request that he kill someone in a car crash.

In the second, Plemons is a police officer convinced that his wife, Liz (Stone) is an imposter after she returns home from being lost at sea, and subsequently asks her to commit increasingly brutal and grotesque acts in a twisted test.

The final one sees the couple become committed cult members recruiting for a dangerously calm pair of leaders, who run a glorified sex compound, complete with a hot tub filled with their tears.

The film, which runs two hours and 44 minutes, is already making waves as a ‘psychological horror’.

Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it was quickly dubbed ‘disturbing’ and ‘next-level sickening’, but was also applauded for its bold, envelope-pushing content.

Now, the actors are beginning to share their thoughts about the film with Plemons telling The Hollywood Reporter: ‘There are some sequences in that that I feel like would make a lot of people sick to their stomachs.

‘It’s also a type of movie that I feel like you don’t get to see all that often nowadays, that is very strange and surreal and abstract and dream-like, nightmarish, but it isn’t, in my opinion, weird just for the sake of being weird.

‘Yorgos has this way of taking these really universal, simple themes and sort of turning them on their head and exploring them in really strange but really human ways.

‘So I found it really emotionally charged reading the script but couldn’t exactly articulate why or what had just happened to me reading the script.’

While the Killers of the Flower Moon actor thinks the picture is ‘surreal’ and unique without being ‘weird’, he was quick to praise his co-stars, particularly Stone, who he believes is ‘fearless’. 

He shared that the actress – who recently won her second Academy Award – takes work seriously but ‘doesn’t take herself seriously’. 

Plemons said it’s an act he finds ‘nice and refreshing’. 

The film has received a 73 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes, with many claiming they ‘enjoyed’ it despite its more ‘out there’ approach. 

Metro.co.uk shared their review of the film, stating, ‘Kinds of Kindness is the kind of weird and wacky film we should celebrate being made, even if it’s not for the faint of heart. Or necessarily a wide audience.’

Kinds of Kindness is in theatres from June 28.

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