Cooper Koch lands next film role in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial alongside Andrew Garfield
Cooper Koch and Andrew Garfield will star in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial (Getty Images)
Cooper Koch and Andrew Garfield will star in Luca Guadagnino's Artificial (Getty Images)
Monsters breakout Cooper Koch is set to star in Challengers director Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, alongside We Live in Time lead Andrew Garfield.
Artificial, the next film from groundbreaking queer director Luca Guadagnino – the man responsible for Queer and Call Me By Your Name – has added more star power to its cast.
Cooper Koch, best known for getting his Koch out as the latter brother in Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Ménendez Story, has reportedly joined the project (according to Deadline), which was first announced in June this year.
He will star alongside Andrew Garfield (Angels in America), and Yura Borisov, who broke out with his role in Academy-Award winning film Anora.
Artificial will be directed by Guadagnino, but the plot is being kept under wraps for now.
According to Deadline, it is being described as a “comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence,” and unconfirmed sources say “the film revolves around the period at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.”
Out gay and “well hung” (his words, not ours) star Cooper Koch shot to fame in queer body horror Swallowed (2022), and slasher They/ Them (2022) before appearing in Netflix’s Monster anthology from Ryan Murphy in 2024.
Guadagnino’s most recent offering was 2024’s Queer, with Drew Starkey and Daniel Craig. The Italian director also has another film, Separate Rooms in the works, which was originally set to star Challengers’ Josh O’Connor, before he dropped out.
His next project will be After the Hunt, with Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Garfield, too.
Artificial will be produced by Amazon MGM Studios, which also helmed Challengers and After the Hunt. It is written by Simon Rich.
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