Jason Schwartzman

Wes Anderson says lockdown helped inspire ‘Asteroid City’

Wes Anderson's new film puts Westerns, theatre, 1950s Americana and an alien into a blender for another of his atypical and star-packed concoctions that he says is about "reckoning with forces beyond your control".

As always, "Asteroid City," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, features a roster of actors that reads like a Hollywood phonebook.