Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster's new movie, Beau Is Afraid, arrives this month, and one of the film's cast members doesn't know a whole lot about it. Richard Kind (Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm) plays a lawyer, Dr. Cohen, but Kind was hired very late for the project after someone else dropped out. He had a meeting on Friday afternoon, agreed to the role the same day, and began practicing his lines right away. By the following Monday--just three days later--Kind was on set at 7 AM to film his part. Given the compressed timeline, Kind didn't have a chance to read the script, and thus doesn't know much about the movie beyond his part in it. "Because I only had two days to memorize it, I didn't have the luxury of reading the script," Kind told Entertainment Weekly. "After I did the movie, I was so intrigued. I said, 'I'm not reading the script, I'm going to see the movie.'" Continue Reading at GameSpot
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