Some are already trading them for the next Oscar. It’s a bit early, but her impressive performance in the sci-fi grotesque Poor Things is justifiably praised (here’s the first impression). In the first part of the film, Stone plays a young woman with the brain of a babya special challenge for an actress.
This is what the sci-fi film based on Frankenstein’s motifs is about
In Poor Things, Emma Stone plays a young woman named Bella, who was assembled by the brilliant scientist Baxter (Willem Dafoe) from the body of a suicidal woman and the brain of her unborn child.
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That’s why Bella initially behaves like a toddler before she runs away to Europe with a womanizer (Mark Ruffalo), where she discovers her body and her self-determination.
Emma Stone cried every day for the first week
Poor Things recently premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, one of the premier film festivals. However, Emma Stone could not be there. Because of the actors’ strike in Hollywood, many stars are staying away from the Lido this year.
However, she spoke about her experience filming in an interview with Vogue, conducted before the walkout began.
Bella be that “happiest character in the world you can play”, Stone explained, because the one raised from the dead has no shame. The childhood phase of Bella’s development demanded a lot from Emma Stone:
We had rehearsals for three weeks in which [das Team] was together, but I knew that during the actual filming I had to let go of the shame or fear of my own self-judgment. […] I believe, I cried every day for the first weekbecause I was so hard on myself, but over time I was able to overcome that a little, although perhaps not completely. The director also praised Stone’s effort
Poor Things is in some ways Emma Stone’s riskiest film, a twisted sci-fi fairy tale with bloody autopsy footage, numerous sex scenes and extremely funny but stilted dialogue, which you don’t see in classic Oscar merchandise. Internationally, the nude scenes in particular attracted attention, which is not a given for US actresses of Stone’s level of fame.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos, who was promoting the film in Venice without his cast, described working with Emma Stone this way, according to the Guardian:
It was very important for me not to make a film that was prudish because that would betray the main character completely. We needed to be sure that Emma wasn’t ashamed of her body, her nudity and the scenes, and she understood that immediately.
You can find out whether Stone’s commitment pays off from the February 8, 2024. Then Poor Things will start in German cinemas.