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Call it �Բ��������é or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.

“In my �Բ��������é, I never quite understood just how much this was basically an elevated Muppet movie,” says “M3GAN” director Gerard Johnstone, calling from the editing suite at Blumhouse’s post-production facility in Koreatown, where he’s finalizing the sequel’s cut.

“In a family where there are ambitious children who want to be psychologists or doctors, the artistic life is frowned upon, like it’s a stupid thing to do. But you can’t get anything done artistically without some naivete.”

Their suitors’ naivete gives the women a chance to find love that isn’t manufactured or heightened for the cameras, while presenting a fascinating culture clash for them to contend with as they move through the dating pool.

They made themselves economically vulnerable to the United States not out of naivete, but because they trusted us not to act arbitrarily or vindictively.