Jesse Plemons on Playing Three Different Characters in Kinds of Kindness

Jesse Plemons discusses winning Best Actor for Kinds of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival and his dad getting a photo with Salma Hayek at an after-party and tries to explain the premise of Kinds of Kindness.


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[blackspider]

Of all the people in Friday Night Lights who would break out and become the biggest star, Landry wasn't in my top 5. But my god, what a talent. Jesse is incredible in everything.

[timages]

He's the heir apparent to Philip Seymour Hoffman, a truly great actor who died way too young. One of those performers who you can never catch acting, it always seems so real and genuine.

[kimberleydiann]

I like Jesse! Remember him in Black Mirror?

[empireofpeaches]

I always remember his wife Kirsten say she hadn't seen Jesse in Breaking Bad. Don't do it Kirsten! He is so good at being so bad 🙈

[maxibluft]

Of all the famous actors I've seen Plemons is the one who least resembles any of his characters in real life, just seems like such a decent, genuinely nice guy. Which further goes to show what a good actor he is.

[ginaheller]

The way he played dead-eyed Todd still freaks me out!

[IAmFJ]

I think Jesse Plemons has been ×2 handsomer since he married Kirsten Dunst.

[RosieRoseDesigner]

Seth's people- could y'all please, please just put "part 1/part 2" in the interview title so we can do it right. Also I don't understand why YouTube never suggests part 2 automatically.

[bobwiegers]

I love that he was cast as the one decent white person in Killers of the Flower Moon since he's such a great bad guy in pretty much everything else he's done recently. made me realize that, try as I might to find one, there's really no good white guys in that story.

[ernestomarcos]

I can't get over how Margaret Qualley looks exactly like her mother in that scene. I saw her in the Tarantino film but she didn't look so similar.

[elizabethheyenga]

He has been amazing since Friday Night Lights. He reminds me of Seymour Philip Hoffman without the burdens

[PurushaDesa]

I just wanna follow Yorgos' little theatre troupe around everywhere now.

[laurawatters]

HE'S A BEAUTIFUL MAN!! I LOVE JESSE AND SETH. AWESOME INTERVIEW!! 😊 💓 🤘 ✌️

[messylittlegirl]

he is such an introvert, i love actors that are introverts

[thischickkej]

I've always had such a crush on him. Wonderful actor and wonderful guy. I'm excited to see the film!

[movieforge]

Jesse is top shelf. He's an amazing actor and easily the most underrated in Hollywood and has been for way too long. Truly an artist and is one of very very few in the business today.

[designof]

he can do all he wants, but he's always gonna be Todd from Breaking Bad, lol

[lindsaykline]

I met Jesse Plemons a few years ago in tulsa when they were filming Killers of the Flower Moon. He was so gracious and when he took a picture with me he did the Keanu Reeves thing- he put his arm around me but didn't touch me at all, like his arm hovered. He's a good one.

[luisaoc]

Seth was particularly bad in this interview... How does he forget Yorgos Lanthimos' last name? And those hair questions....

[Jake-dd]

"How can that be profitable for Frito Lay?" is one of the best line deliveries I've ever seen in a comedy.