Emma Stone came up with ideas for her raunchy romps in new movie Poor Things – with one so extreme it had to be edited before it could be shown to UK audiences.
Now director Yorgos Lanthimos has confessed that it was the lead actress herself who came up with some of the raciest scenarios in his 2024 offering. In the film, she gets down and dirty with a female sex worker at a brothel; pleasures herself and her “hairy business” with an apple, and engages in “furious jumping” with Mark Ruffalo’s character.
Speaking to the Irish Times, Yorgos explained: “Talking, for example, about the sex scenes that might have been the most awkward or uncomfortable. I remember us sitting down the days before and coming up with all the different styles we were going to do.
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“So we decided, ‘Oh, we should do this part’. And, ‘Oh, someone should be humping her leg’. Ha ha! She came up with a lot of the stuff that we did.” Yorgos added that he finds it “strange” that sex is “such a taboo”, explaining: “It was never an issue for me.
“Sex or violence or love or… It was all the same to me. I dealt with them all the same way.” Lanthimos struggled to get funding from UK execs and funding bodies, confessing the movie was “rejected” several times.
According to IndieWire, the movie had to be re-edited before it could be shown to UK audiences – including one raunchy scene that saw Emma’s character Bella Baxter “stuffing cucumbers” into her “hairy business”. One moment rubbed the British Board of Film Classification up the wrong way.
The sex scene in question saw a father hire sex worker Bella for his two young sons to watch and learn as she romped. If the shot in question remained as is in the movie, it couldn’t have been certified as an 18 and shown in cinemas.
A statement read: “We informed the distributor we would be likely to classify the film 18 on condition that changes be made to one short sequence depicting sexual activity in the presence of children. his is in accordance with the Protection of Children Act 1978. When the distributor submitted the film for formal classification, the scene had been re-edited, and we were able to classify the film 18.”
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According to the BBFC, the movie also features “a scene of BDSM sex involving restraints and a gag”, along with “regular strong sex scenes which feature nudity and multiple positions”.
The film has already taken home two Golden Globes – Best Motion Picture in the Musical or Comedy categories, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture for the same genres, with Emma Stone taking the gong.
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