Emma Stone had to touch her co-star Olivia Colman “intimately” on set of The Favourite – in a sex scene involving a “sopping wet sponge”. The Hollywood icon teamed up with Peep Show star Olivia in the 2018 flick, with Olivia playing Queen Anne and Emma as Baroness Abigail Masham.
The film follows frail Queen Anne as England wages war with France, while her close pal Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) rules the country for her ailing friend. When new servant Abigail turns up, Sarah takes her under her wing – and she’s determined to return to her aristocratic roots.
But things got rather awkward fast. Olivia opened up about the scene on The Graham Norton Show – confessing she played a prank on Emma when they took things between the sheets. She told the host: “Emma Stone was worried about me though because she had to touch me intimately under the sheets. In order to avoid finding anything you shouldn’t have found… I asked the make-up department if they had a sponge.”
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In order to convince Emma she was touching Olivia’s real intimate area, she wet the sponge – leaving her co-star horrified. Olivia went on: “I put a sponge there and I said ‘it’s alright, there’s a barrier, you’ll be fine’… It was a big wet sponge. She was going up my leg and her face was a picture when she reached it! ‘It’s alright, it’s a sponge, it’s a sponge!’”
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During the lesbian fingering scenes in the film, Olivia struggled not to giggle. She told The Sunday Times: “We had two or three weeks’ rehearsal and so we couldn’t be embarrassed in front of each other. We had rolled on the floor, and giggled, and eaten together and shared everything. We’d become very good friends.
“Snogging is fine, because snogging Rachel Weisz is like you’ve won the lottery. The other bit – being fingered by Emma Stone – we really struggled with not giggling at that.”
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Emma, meanwhile “begged” to be naked, telling The Hollywood Reporter: “I had the sheet up around me. As we were shooting it and we did a few takes, I said, ‘Can I please just be naked?’ I think it’s going to give Sarah something to look at when she sees that I’m not just under the sheet covered up. Olivia was like, ‘No, don’t do it!’ […] I chose to do it. I was like, ‘This makes sense to me’,” she added.
Emma is taking her nudity in film to the next level in her new flick Poor Things, in which she plays “horny legend” Bella, who is brought back to life by a scientist after committing suicide. Shortly after being revived, she falls for a “debauched lawyer” and heads on a voyage of “self-discovery and sexual liberation”.
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos said of the R-rated flick that the sex scenes are “very important”, and not something Emma could “shy away” from. He explained: “It would feel very disingenuous to tell this story about this character who is so free and so open, and then be [a] prude about the sexual aspect of it.
“It was clear from the beginning, but also from the novel, from the script, from my discussions with Emma, as well, and how we came up with those scenes. She had to be free; there should be no judgment.”
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