According to Hong Chau, 'Kinds of Kindness' tells three separate stories with the cast playing different characters in each.
The film tells three separate stories with the cast playing different characters in each. But in an interview with We Need to Talk About Oscar, the editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis said, there's one actor plays the same character in all three stories who connects them in a strange way.
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Andrew Garfield, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Chris Hemsworth, and Sam Rockwell were considered for the roles of Robert, Daniel, and Andrew, which went to Jesse Plemons.