We've been eagerly anticipating The Curse, a forthcoming Showtime series from Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder, since it was announced in early 2020, and after learning who would be scoring the project this past January, additional details have emerged about the show itself.
Benny Safdie dug a little deeper into the plot of The Curse in a new profile with GQ, speaking with the publication after "finishing up final sound editing" for the show.
The initial announcement of The Curse revealed that Fielder and Emma Stone will play a couple trying to conceive a child in the midst of working on an HGTV series. The GQ profile reveals that Safdie will co-star as "a long-haired, turquoise jewelry-wearing HGTV producer," and the filmmaker offered greater colour surrounding the lead characters.
"[The couple] live in an area called Española, which is close to Santa Fe. And that's where they're building their new homes," Safdie divulged. "They have a very different way of gentrifying the community. They want to do it ethically, and they want to do it in a way that doesn't hurt anybody. So they want to make a show about that. And you follow their lives as they're doing it."
Safdie adds that The Curse "started out as a 30-minute comedy and became an hour-long comedy-drama." The profile also notes that the series was shot in New Mexico — where Safdie also travelled to play the role of Hungarian physicist Edward Teller in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, set to land in theatres this week (July 21).
Read Benny Safdie's complete GQ profile. While brother Josh is not involved with The Curse, he is the Safdie sibling at the helm of a forthcoming Adam Sandler film which could star Megan Thee Stallion.
Benny Safdie dug a little deeper into the plot of The Curse in a new profile with GQ, speaking with the publication after "finishing up final sound editing" for the show.
The initial announcement of The Curse revealed that Fielder and Emma Stone will play a couple trying to conceive a child in the midst of working on an HGTV series. The GQ profile reveals that Safdie will co-star as "a long-haired, turquoise jewelry-wearing HGTV producer," and the filmmaker offered greater colour surrounding the lead characters.
"[The couple] live in an area called Española, which is close to Santa Fe. And that's where they're building their new homes," Safdie divulged. "They have a very different way of gentrifying the community. They want to do it ethically, and they want to do it in a way that doesn't hurt anybody. So they want to make a show about that. And you follow their lives as they're doing it."
Safdie adds that The Curse "started out as a 30-minute comedy and became an hour-long comedy-drama." The profile also notes that the series was shot in New Mexico — where Safdie also travelled to play the role of Hungarian physicist Edward Teller in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, set to land in theatres this week (July 21).
Read Benny Safdie's complete GQ profile. While brother Josh is not involved with The Curse, he is the Safdie sibling at the helm of a forthcoming Adam Sandler film which could star Megan Thee Stallion.
