‘Under the Skin’
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Audiences finally have a follow-up to Jonathan Glazer‘s Under the Skin, kinda.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker has teamed up once again with Under the Skin star Scarlett Johansson for an ad to promote Italian fashion house Prada‘s Galleria bag collection.
The ad, which dropped on Wednesday, features Johansson struggling to recite lines from Shakespeare, including famous passages from Anthony and Cleopatra and Macbeth.
The ad, which was shot in New York with Italian creative director Ferdinando Verderi, is Glazer’s first video work since he won an Oscar for best international film at the 2024 Academy Awards for his harrowing feature The Zone of Interest. The British director’s acceptance speech at the ceremony caused some controversy after it was wildly taken out of context and misquoted.
Though he has only made four features so far, Glazer is a somewhat prolific ad director and has helmed famous campaigns for the likes of Guinness, Sony and Apple.
Glazer and Johansson’s 2013 sci-fi film Under the Skin was a huge critical success and regularly featured in the greatest films of the 21st century lists.