With Asteroid City, the Wes Anderson club just got bigger. As you may know, the director of films including The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The French Dispatch loves an ensemble cast. This time around newcomers include Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Maya Hawke, and Hope Davis. That’s in addition to regulars like Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, and Jake Ryan. Or even those on their second Anderson outing, like Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Stephen Park, Jeffrey Wright, and Rupert Friend. Phew…
To prevent these A-Listers from all sitting alone in their hotel rooms, Anderson encourages his cast to hang out. Which means having dinner together, every night. “Wes always sits at the head of the table and when you first arrive, you sit next to him and then you kind of move down the table so the new arrivals can sit next to him,” explains Davis (Captain America: Civil War). “And suddenly, you're with thirty movie stars at the dinner table. It was kind of intense in the beginning, but you do form a real kind of theatre troupe, a real community.”
