Emma Stone came up with some of the ideas for the sex scenes in Yorgos Lanthimos’ movie Poor Things – and it’s got me wondering if she’s ever encountered an apple before.
Yorgos explained to the Irish Times: “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.
“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.” ‘Horny legend’ Emma was “free” throughout the artistic process.
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In one iconic scene, her resurrected character Bella Baxter sits at the breakfast table after discovering how to make herself “happy” with plenty of self-pleasure in the bedroom. Unbothered by her potential audience, the child-like Bella reaches for an apple and starts rubbing it all over her “hairy business”.
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Making orgasmic moans, Bella is just about finished when she grabs a nearby cucumber (if you’re wondering why they’re serving cucumber at breakfast, don’t worry, so was I) and inserts it – just as housekeeper Mrs Prim walks in and begs to know what Bella’s up to. She attempts to show the maid how she too can be “happy”, by grabbing her crotch.
Obviously the scene just begs to be recreated. Questioning my life choices, I stocked up on various fruits and vegetables and got to work.
First, scalding the apple in hot water didn’t sound like a bad idea, though I do suspect some of the preparation that went into it took away from the spontaneity somewhat. Bella certainly wasn’t worried about insects and cross-contamination in the throes of pleasure.
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Most of what Bella was doing was kept off-camera and under the table, but from what I could tell she wasn’t shoving an entire apple up herself, so I started with some gentle, erm, caressing. My primary thought was how cold the whole thing was. I’d kept the fruit out of the fridge but it soon felt as though I had a small block of ice between my legs.
Another thing – in case you haven’t noticed, apples don’t really have any… nodules. There’s nothing to brush up against except the dimple where the stalk goes, and mine was so misshapen it was hard to get any friction whatsoever. It was no sexier than accidentally sitting down on a hard object.
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I’m not sure exactly what director Lanthimos or Stone herself were thinking during the filming of this scene, but I’m not sure any thought went into the process of actually getting sexual pleasure from what is a notoriously smooth fruit. The only explanation that makes sense is that since Bella has the mind of a toddler, she doesn’t understand the concept of friction – but then how did she reach orgasm within a few quivering seconds?
For this reporter, the whole process was so off-putting and unsexy that I actually felt a bit ill afterwards. I think I’ll stick to my Bellesa Pebble in future.
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