Emma Stone Stars in HGTV Satire 'The Curse'
Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone.
Ever since the pilot was announced back in 2020, the Showtime dramedy The Curse has been a highly anticipated new TV project. Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder, who’s best known for the innovative docu-reality series Nathan For You and HBO’s mind-bending The Rehearsal, has teamed up with beloved indie production company A24 for what sounds like an intriguing and satirical take on HGTV shows. That combination of elements, coupled with the A-list casting of Emma Stone, has us counting down the days until the premiere date.
Here’s everything we know so far about The Curse so far.
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What is The Curse about?
Showtime describes The Curse as a “genre-bending” series focusing on the relationship between a newly married couple, who are trying to conceive a child while simultaneously co-starring in a problematic new house-flipping show for an HGTV-like network. All of this is made more complicated by the fact that they appear to be cursed.
Co-creator Benny Safdie (one half of the Safdie Brothers, who directed Uncut Gems), also acts in the show, and told GQ that he and Fielder originally conceived The Curse as a half-hour comedy, but it evolved into something different. “It started out as a 30-minute comedy and became an hour-long comedy-drama,” he said, explaining that the show explores the subject of gentrification in New Mexico.
“[The couple] live in an area called Espa?ola, which is close to Santa Fe. And that's where they're building their new homes. 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.”
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Who is in the cast of The Curse?
The cast includes:
Emma Stone
Nathan Filder
Benny Safdie
Constance Shulman
Corbin Bernsen
Barkhad Abdi
Fielder and Stone star as the show’s central couple, while Safdie plays “a long-haired, turquoise jewelry-wearing HGTV producer,” per GQ.
“The fierce intelligence and wit of the incomparable Emma Stone make her the perfect partner with the ingenious minds of the Safdie brothers and the subversive comedy of Nathan Fielder,” Amy Israel, Showtime executive vice president of scripted content, said when the casting was announced. “Together, they promise to deliver a groundbreaking satire that is both unexpected and deeply human."
The cast also includes Constance Shulman (Orange Is the New Black), Corbin Bernsen (LA Law) and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), whose roles haven’t yet been announced.
Where was The Curse filmed?
The show was shot in New Mexico, in Santa Fe and Espa?ola.
What is the release date for The Curse?
The first three episodes of The Curse will premiere at the New York Film Festival in October. After that, the full 10-episode season will air on Showtime, and episodes 4 through 10 of the season will also screen at Film at Lincoln Center throughout the season. The TV premiere date hasn’t been announced yet, but per a tweet from A24, it will be sometime in the fall of 2023.
How many episodes are in The Curse?
There are 10 episodes in The Curse.
Is there a trailer for The Curse?
A trailer hasn’t been released as yet, but that’s likely to change around the time of the NYFF premiere.
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