In a year when Anora stormed Cannes and set Hollywood aflame, it would’ve been criminal to leave Yuriy Borisov out in the cold. But the Russian actor, whose turn as the dead-eyed-yet-devastating Igor stunned audiences, has not only stayed at the party—he may be hosting the after-hours.
Now, Borisov’s next move is as unexpected as it is thrilling: according to HR, he’s in talks to join Andrew Garfield and Monica Barbaro in Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s high-profile take on the 2023 OpenAI meltdown. Still in early development, the film will dramatise the five-day corporate coup that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and dramatically reinstated. If all goes according to plan, Garfield will play Altman, Barbaro will step into the role of CTO Mira Murati, and Borisov will portray Ilya Sutskever — the elusive OpenAI co-founder believed to have sparked the whole debacle.
So yes, after Anora, Borisov isn’t fading back into the festival mist. He’s stepping straight into Silicon Valley’s strangest psychodrama, under the eye of one of cinema’s most sensual stylists. The face may be familiar, but the story? Anything but.
