Snapshot · The Louis Theroux Podcast
Lanthimos lost his mother at 17 and was largely raised without his father, formative experiences he links to his recurring cinematic suspicion of family structures.
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Louis handles the most personal section of the interview with care, noting that Lanthimos grew up without his father significantly present and lost his mother at 17, and has never become close to his father since. He asks whether Lanthimos has a suspicion of family life, and Lanthimos offers a measured but honest 'I guess so.' He acknowledges that these experiences may have seeded something like Dogtooth — a film about the violence of family control — and that they inform his decision not to have children, though he also cites the state of the world as a separate reason. The admission is rare in its directness from a filmmaker who usually defers such questions back to the work.
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