At the Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Pascal says that with 'Eddington,' Ari Aster wrote a movie that's "all our worst fears" in the post-Covid Trump era.

When the local sheriff, Joe ( Joaquin Phoenix ), decides to run against the town’s smoothie mayor, Ted ( Pedro Pascal ), it seems that maybe Aster is headed toward an allegory for the 2020 presidential election—or our two-party system more broadly.

The premiere of indie director Ari Aster's latest film, "Eddington," attracted a particularly glitzy crowd to the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet on Friday night, with Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman,