2015 saw him appear in five films: the drama "Entertainment"; Yorgos Lanthimos' comedy-drama "The Lobster" as Robert, a man with a lisp who is given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into an animal; the fantasy horror "Tale of Tales", in which he played a king who tries to conceive a child with his queen–played by Salma Hayek–through an unconventional method, and the English dub of the Studio Ghibli animated film "When Marnie Was There".