Yorgos Lanthimos has always put together some surprising casts of stars that we rarely see together. And he appears to be doing the same with his next film, Poor Things. With Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, and Ramy Youssef already on board, the latest addition is comedian and director Jerrod Carmichael.
Variety has the news on Jerrod Carmichael joining the cast of Poor Things, which is a Frankenstein-esque story about a woman who is brought back to life but with an infant’s brain. Lanthimos has done some pretty wild shit, like The Lobster and even The Favourite, but this definitely out there.
Carmichael has been on a roll ever since he abruptly left his own NBC sitcom a few years ago. He has appeared in Transformers: The Last Knight, as well as Jonah Hill’s Mid90s. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival we got to see Carmichael’s impressive directing debut On the Count of Three.
