Emma Stone “brings the sex” to her “horny legend” character Bella Baxter in upcoming flick Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos has confessed.
Emma plays reanimated corpse turned Frankenstein’s monster Bella in the new film as she embarks on a journey of sexual discovery and self-actualisation. It involves plenty of racy scenes, including Bella getting down and dirty with an apple and confessing she’s been a “whore”.
In an interview with Polygon, Yorgos confessed that Emma “brought the sex and optimism” to the movie, ultimately allowing for a happy ending. He explained: “What we wanted to do is deal with [sex] the same way that [we] dealt with anything else, like the same way that the character Bella doesn’t have any shame about anything, and no preconceived notions about anything. It’s the same with her about sex.
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“So she had to feel no shame, and just explore it and experience it the same way she experiences food, or whatever else. And some of it is pleasing, and some of it she wants to spit out.”
The happy ending also “came out of Bella”, with screenwriter Tony McNamara adding: “Like Yorgos says, being faithful to that character means you’re ultimately faithful to an idea of this sort of optimism about life’s adventure.”
And he enjoyed Emma’s performance so much that he’s already secured her for the next role. He said on the Little Gold Men podcast: “After we finish one, we discuss the next one. So we’ve shot this feature film in New Orleans [Kind Of Kindness] which we are now editing and Poor Things is out now and yeah, we’re discussing about doing something together again [afterwards].”
Plenty of theories already abound as to what the next project can be – from a remake of the South Korean flick Save the Green Planet to Pop. 1280.
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It comes after Emma said “nothing was off limits” when working with the seasoned director, as she chatted to her pal Bradley Cooper for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. She said: “That rehearsal process was so helpful because we all got to know each other so well. All you do in a rehearsal with Yorgos is like, mess around.
“You play theatre games, it’s not literal at all – you’re not reading the scenes and working out how they’re going to go. It’s very playful – you’re a human noodle or you’re doing log rolls or whatever. Really fun things where you kind of embarrass yourself.”
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She went on: “Everybody feels silly and like a troupe. Because of that process… by the time you’re on set for the first day, we’ve already had dinner every night, we’ve already been all over each other in rehearsals and have made fun of each other and been embarrassed.
“So there’s nothing that really feels like it’s off limits when you’re on set because you’re with your friends.”
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