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Q&A with David Cronenberg: ‘Maps to the Stars,’ Julianne Moore and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Director David Cronenberg has always made a point of staying outside of the American film industry.
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February 24, 2015

Director David Cronenberg has always made a point of staying outside of the American film industry. But his newest film, Maps to the Stars (opening February 27th) dives headfirst into Hollywood, in all its glory and grossness. The product of a long-developing collaboration with Los Angeles novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, Maps to the Stars is, frankly, pretty bonkers and unflinching in its sprawling depiction of a family afflicted by the disease of fame.

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At its center is Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand, a washed-up aging starlet, and Mia Wasikowska as the celebrity-obsessed runaway who becomes her personal assistant. But the entire ensemble is haunted by the idea of fame, and Maps deals in an eerie kind of paranormality that, as Cronenberg assured me during our conversation, is in a lot of ways not really a departure from his psychological sci-fi roots. I spoke to the director over the phone to find out what made him leave his home turf in Canada for the well-worn boulevards of Los Angeles, and what he found there.

Read the Q&A at The Verge.

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