Jenna Ortega Searches for Connection in Klara and the Sun Trailer
Jenna Ortega steps into a startlingly human role in the first trailer for Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed 2021 novel.
The new preview of the film introduces Ortega as Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to offer companionship in a near-future world. Solar-powered and full of curiosity, Klara waits in a store alongside other AFs, hoping someone will choose her. That chance arrives when she is brought home by a mother, played by Amy Adams, for her teenage daughter Josie (Mia Tharia).
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From there, the trailer frames Klara’s arrival as something more complicated than a new purchase. Josie is living with a mysterious illness, while her household carries the weight of grief, tension, and a past loss that has left the family fractured. As Klara learns from the people around her and forms an immediate bond with Josie, she becomes determined to help the girl recover.
Her faith in the sun, which gives her energy and also seems to hold a deeper meaning in her eyes, becomes central to that mission. The footage hints at the emotional and ethical questions waiting beneath the film’s sleek sci-fi setting: What can artificial intelligence understand about love? And what happens when devotion pushes beyond what a human family can ask of it?
Alongside Ortega, Adams, and Tharia, Klara and the Sun stars Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne, who appears in the trailer as the manager of Klara’s store. Waititi directs the feature, marking a new screen adaptation of Ishiguro’s bestselling novel.
The trailer leans into a warmer, more intimate mode of science fiction than audiences may expect, using Klara’s point of view to explore loneliness, illness, family, and the limits of care. Klara and the Sun arrives exclusively in theaters on October 23, 2026.
