Luca Guadagnino has hardly given audiences a chance to clean their saliva up off the floor before dropping yet another project worth drooling over. Less than three months after the release of the homoerotic, techno-pulsing Challengers, the director is onto his next film, and if the cast is any indication, it’s looking to be one worth trekking to the theater for. Over the weekend, treasured New York “It” girl and actress Chloë Sevigny posted an image of the cast of After the Hunt in what looked to be the first day of preproduction, per Deadline. Pictured in this nearly unfair lineup, in no particular order, are as follows: Sevigny, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lio Mehiel, Ariyan Kassam, and Will Price. Of course, Zendaya paired with Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor is a difficult threesome to beat, critically speaking, but this? This is a stacked cast.
“#backtowork After The Hunt directed by the great Luca Guadagnino,” Sevigny wrote in her caption on Instagram, while sharing a selfie of her and Guadagnino on Stories. “Like we do,” she wrote.
As of this writing, I’m not sure exactly how Chloë Sevigny and Luca Guadagnino “do,” but I really don’t need any additional details to confirm my ass will be glued to a seat come 2025 (or whenever the film is released; there’s no confirmed date as of yet). Imagine Roberts riffing off of the Irishwoman herself. Imagine Chloë through the Luca gaze. Imagine Andrew Garfield doing just about anything onscreen at the hands of a prolific director. It’s almost too much charm to process in one photo.
“Here we go! Luca!!!!!” Roberts wrote in her own Instagram post of the same photo. Indeed, Julia. Here we go.
