Oh her name made it, but her face did not.
The poster for the new Luca Guadagnino film has five names on it, but only four faces.
Sevigny is obviously edged out, fame-wise, by one of the biggest female stars of her generation, Julia Roberts, and also by a guy who once played Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield. Ayo Edibiri hasn't been around very long but she has skyrocketed during the short time we've been aware of her.
But Michael Stuhlbarg? Sevigny is more famous than he is, right?
We shouldn't even be having this conversation. If you can get five names onto the poster, can't you get five pictures? Does Julia's shoulder really need to take up all that extra real estate?
Not knowing what the movie is about, I'd argue that there's likely a plot reason she's not pictured. I don't know, maybe her character is dead or something, seen only in flashback. Or maybe these characters have specifically adversarial relationships with one another, which could explain why they're all giving such suspicious looks in each others' general directions. Maybe Sevigny is separate from those dynamics.
The real point, though, is not who is more famous than whom, or who has a plot function that others don't have. I think the real point is that when designing a movie poster, it's okay to have way more people pictured on the poster than names, or way fewer. For the purposes of our argument, "way more" and "way fewer" can both mean "at least two."
A difference of only one, though, calls attention to itself, and results in posts like this one.
There, I've fixed it. I guess Chloe is not as suspicious of the rest of them as they are of each other. She's just bemused.
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