Of all the familiar or brand-name actors in Wes Anderson‘s Asteroid City, two are featured more prominently than the rest — Jason Schwartzman, 42, as a bearded, somber, man-of-few-words type, and Jake Ryan, a dorky-looking actor in his early 20s with a bee-stung nose**.
I haven’t counted and categorized all the shots in the trailer, but it’s possible that Ryan has more lines than Schwartzman. He certainly has as many closeups, if not more. This is my primary observation.
Otherwise Asteroid City appears to be another visit to Andersonville with a few splashes of alien salad dressing. I’m getting a little bit of a Moonrise Kingdom vibe from the adult-ensemble-mixed-with-precocious-kids. I love the mid ’50s station-wagon woodie (driven by Rupert Friend) with “French Press” stenciled on the driver door. A whole lot of people on the film’s IMDB page are credited with visual effects and creating models and miniatures.
** I’m sorry to observe this, but Ryan’s noise definitely has a bee-stung thing going on. I don’t mean anything — I’m just saying it’s there.