Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder co-star as a newly married couple trying to conceive a child while starting their new home-improvement show in the latest trailer for Showtime’s The Curse, which dropped on Friday.
About halfway through the nearly three-minute trailer, Fielder’s character, Asher Siegel, while doing a staged photo-op where he donates a lone $100 bill in his wallet to a young girl in a parking lot, snatches the bill back after he thinks his generosity is too great and the cameras are no longer rolling.
In response, the now angry young child casts an alleged spell on Siegel and nightmares soon come knocking on the young couple in the community of Española, New Mexico.
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“Things have been a little weird,” Siegel’s character concedes at one point in the trailer, while Stone’s character, Whitney Siegel, blurts out during another clip: “This doesn’t make sense.”
All the while, Josh Safdie, playing an ingratiating reality show producer with demons of his own, insists the couple are good people as they press on to the launch date. Guest stars on The Curse include Barkhad Abdi, Corbin Bernsen and Constance Shulman.
The Showtime and A24 co-production is co-created, executive produced and written by Safdie and Fielder, who also directs. Stone, Dave McCary, Ali Herting and Safdie share executive producer credits.
The Curse marks the latest TV foray for Stone, best known for star turns in La La Land and Birdman, and who will also appear as Frankengirl in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. Stone’s production banner has a first-look TV deal with A24.
The Curse will debut internationally on Paramount+ on Nov. 10 in Canada and on Nov. 11 in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany Switzerland and Austria.
