British actor Micheal Ward has been charged with rape and sexual assault, the Metropolitan Police Service confirmed in a news release on Friday. The Empire of Light and Eddington actor, 27, faces two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

One of the final glimpses we see of Cross is at the grand opening of a data center, built right next to the paltry town of Eddington. Many theorize that the data center, the construction of which is opposed by some locals and indigenous people, was the real evil in the story.

The sheriff is Joe Cross, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who has long had a rivalry with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Cross is now running for mayor and has said some damaging things about Garcia. At this moment, Cross arrives to address a noise complaint at a fund-raising party Garcia is throwing.

This post contains major plot spoilers for Eddington .

Don’t tell Joaquin Phoenix he’s not a star. The Oscar winner recently appeared on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) during his “Eddington” press tour and remembered a director telling him on set early in his career that all he would ever be is simply a “character actor.” Phoenix’s co-star at the …

The writer and director Ari Aster narrates a sequence from his film featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.

What — beyond Aster’s evident desire to tweak both sides of the political spectrum — might be going on here? Look deeper and you’ll find the answer was hiding in plain sight. If Aster has a thesis in Eddington,

Pedro Pascal has recently addressed Joaquin Phoenix slap during the filming of their new black comedy, Eddington.The two actors, who star opposite one another in Ari Aster directed movie, were

Aster confronts us with a thoroughly modern piece of existential dread that will send your brain racing and leave a heavy pit in your stomach.