Midway through the Swedish director Ruben stlunds new film Triangle of Sadness, the passengers on a luxury yacht start vomiting. And vomiting. And vomiting. By the time its all said and done, well have watched 15 balletic minutes of the .01 percent projectile puking and otherwise sloshing around in bodily fluids.

This disgusting, entirely unsubtle bit of class satire marks a turning point in the movie. The first third explores the relationship between Carl, a male model (Harris Dickinson), and his breadwinner girlfriend, a model and influencer named Yaya (the late Charlbi Dean). Thanks to her influencing, they get invited for a ride on a luxury yacht, where they rub elbows with the highest echelons of society: a Russian fertilizer magnate, elderly British arms dealers, all steered by a ship captain who happens to be a Marxist (a delightful Woody Harrelson). When the boat crashes post-vomiting on a desert island, the hierarchies are quickly flipped. A member of the cleaning crew, Abigail (Dolly De Leon), is the only one with practical skills and becomes the de facto leader of all the survivors.

stlund, whose amusingly excruciating explorations of human behavior and modern masculinity made us laugh and squirm in Force Majeure and The Square, won his second Palme D'Or this year for Triangle of Sadness. (And once again led the Cannes audience in a collective primal scream.) In advance of the U.S. premiere, he talked to GQ about his weird YouTube inspirations, why male models fascinate him, and what hed do to survive on a desert island.

GQ: The first thing I need to know is how the disgusting boat scene came together.

Ruben stlund: It actually started with me making research on a luxury cruise. There was an Italian buffet one night, and the weather was getting kind of rough, so the boat was rocking. People were getting more and more silent in this dining room. There was a moment when you heard someone throw up somewhere in the dining room. And it was so interesting to look at how people reacted to it. People were like, I have to get out here. I was, of course ,comparing it with vomiting scenes that have been in film history, and I wanted to go further than anyone had done before.

What were the actual logistics of shooting it?

All the shooting that took place when it came to the vomiting was in the studio, and we had built the dining room on a board so we could rock it. So we spent eight hours a day on a rocking set where part of the film crew had to eat seasick pills because we got seasick. It took almost half a year to edit that scene.

When you write your films, do you start off with the main character or the setting? For instance, in this case were you thinking: I want to explore what its like to be a male model?

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