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Speaking on Saturday at a special BFI London Film Festival talk with \u201cSuccession<\/a>\u201d creator Jesse Armstrong<\/a>, the director was asked how he felt about commercial success.<\/p>\n \u201cI want it to happen, but I don\u2019t it to happen the way it happens,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI want people to make their money back. I want people to watch the film. But I don\u2019t want to be going around like a freak, parading around the world, having to explain the film.\u201d<\/p>\n Lanthimos noted that after spending six months shooting a film and six months editing, there was then another six months to spend on the promotional tour.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite having become a hugely successful filmmaker over the last decade and being a regular face on the awards circuit, Yorgos Lanthimos admits he still has very mixed feelings about the promotional aspect that comes with the job. Speaking on Saturday at a special BFI London Film Festival talk with \u201cSuccession\u201d creator Jesse Armstrong, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2084138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2084137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Yorgos-Lanthimos-Reveals-the-One-Thing-He-Does-to-Annoy.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084139,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084137\/revisions\/2084139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}