The French Dispatch
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- discussed in biography
- In Wes Anderson

Anderson’s next feature film, The French Dispatch (2021), was described as a “love letter to journalism.” It follows various stories that will be featured in the last edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement. Murray, Brody, Huston, Wilson, and Schwartzman were among the Anderson regulars who appeared in the movie.
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- Brody
- In Adrien Brody: The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Brutalist

…The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). In addition, he voiced the Field Mouse in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
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- Chalamet
- In Timothée Chalamet: Dune and other movies from the 2020s

…ensemble casts of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. That same year he also starred as Paul Atreides alongside Zendaya as Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic. Chalamet’s
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- Dafoe
- In Willem Dafoe: The Lighthouse, Poor Things, and Nosferatu

…featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. Dafoe’s other credits that year included Guillermo del Toro’s film noir Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter, a crime drama directed by Paul Schrader.
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- Del Toro
- In Benicio Del Toro: Later roles

…also appeared in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, playing an unstable artist who finds his muse while in prison. He worked with Anderson again several years later, starring in The Phoenician Scheme (2025), about the misadventures of an international businessman. Del Toro then had a supporting role as a karate…
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- Huston
- In Anjelica Huston

…The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and The French Dispatch (2021); she also lent her voice to Anderson’s stop-motion animated feature Isle of Dogs (2018). In 2004 she portrayed women’s suffrage pioneer Carrie Chapman Catt in the HBO film Iron Jawed Angels. She later played the addled mother of a sex addict…
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- McDormand
- In Frances McDormand

…a journalist in his dramedy The French Dispatch. Later that year she costarred with Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play that was directed by McDormand’s husband; he also was credited with writing it for the screen. She later had a minor role in…
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- Murray
- In Bill Murray: Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, and Wes Anderson films

…Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); and The French Dispatch (2021). He provided the voice of the sardonic cat Garfield in two commercially successful films (2004 and 2006) based on the eponymous comic strip, as well as the voice of a badger in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), an animated film adaptation…
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- Norton
- In Edward Norton: Later credits

…subsequently reunited with Anderson on The French Dispatch (2021), in which he played a gangster who kidnaps the son of a police officer. In 2022 Norton appeared as a tech billionaire in Glass Onion, a whodunit that was part of the Knives Out anthology franchise; the series centers on a…
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- Seydoux
- In Léa Seydoux: Later roles

…in a larger role, in The French Dispatch (2021).
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- Swinton
- In Tilda Swinton: Michael Clayton, Snowpiercer, and The French Dispatch

…an art critic in his The French Dispatch (2021), about the last edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement, and as a scientist in Asteroid City (2023).
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- Waltz
- In Christoph Waltz: Branching out in later work

…he appeared in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, a dramedy about the final edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement. In the animated film Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), Waltz provided the voice of Count Volpe. In 2025 he reunited with del Toro in an adaptation of Frankenstein.
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- Wilson
- In Owen Wilson: Acclaim for Midnight in Paris and later works

…a whimsical travel writer in The French Dispatch.
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- Wright
- In Jeffrey Wright: Roles from the 2020s

…roles in director Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (2021) and Asteroid City (2023). Wright earned another Emmy nomination in 2022, for narrating the animated series What If…? (2021–24), which explores alternate plotlines from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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