Oscar -winning actress Emma Stone underwent a dramatic transformation for her role in BugoniaThe next film by director Yorgos Lanthimos, in which she shaves her head in a pivotal scene.
Bugoniawhich will be published in the worlds of the world of the world on October 31, follows two men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who kidnap a CEO of pharmaceutical (Stone) which, according to them, is secretly a stranger trying to destroy the earth. The film is vaguely based on the 2003 South Korean film Save the green planet!
While filming was still underway at the end of last year, Public speculations have increased Around the appearance of Stone after being seen Wig a wig at the New York Film Festival 2024. The reason for the wig was finally revealed to BugoniaFirst at Venice International Film Festival in August, when the public watched the character of Plemons Hand Stone a razor.
Stone didn’t bother shaving her head, she said in an interview for VogueThe September issue, although the experience made it somewhat emotional.
“No better feeling in the world,” said Stone. The actress used a 1.5 millimeter blade to shave, according to Vogue. “The first shower when you shaved your head? Oh my God, is it incredible.”
Stone said she knew when reading the script that shaving the head was inevitable. “There would never be any other way,” she told a Bugonia screening In New York on September 5.
Even if she was prepared, she told Vogue that she “had melted into tears in her trailer” before filming the scene, partly because of her mother, Krista, who was diagnosed with Triple negative breast cancer in 2008.
“She did something brave,” Stone told Vogue, referring to her mother. “I’m just shaving my head.”
There was also a lot of pressure involved in shaving from the head to the camera, because everything had to be captured perfectly in a single socket.
“You had cold feet once,” said director Yorgos Lanthimos in Stone during New York projection in September. “Just before.”
“It was a year and a half, I knew that I was going to shave my head, then on the day of – they set up four cameras, because we had to get it in a single time,” said Stone during the projection. “It took a long time to prepare all the cameras, and I just started panicking about it.”
Plemons told Vogue that he was also anxious to film the scene in a single catch.
“It was like,” it’s gone – Emily shaved her head, “said Plemons, referring to Stone by name. “We will better do this good!”
After the shooting of the scene, Stone told Vogue that Krista, who had been without cancer for 12 years, said that she was “jealous” of the look and wanted to shave her head again.
“I shave my head because I do what I like, and my mother was there with me, and I said to myself:” What a gift! These are the hair “”, said Stone during the projection. “It was actually one of the greatest experiences of my life.”
Stone joins a number of actresses who have shaved his head For roles, including Florence Pugh for We live in timeNatalie Portman for V for VendettaCharlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road and half moore for Gi Jane.
Shaving your head was also the easiest part of filming BUGONIA, Rock Tell to journalists At Venice International Film Festival.
“I was easy for me to shave my head?. “It is, like, so much easier than any hairstyle.”
Instead, it was the combat training and the training class which, according to Stone, was the most difficult elements of the preparation of the role. While some first criticisms of the film praised his “sharp and piercing“Dialogue, according to the Hollywood Reporter, viewers can also expect”explosive violence [and] Slapstick physical comedy brarst. “”
While some The fans were shocked This stone shaved her head for the film, she reminded the public during the September screening, “it’s only hair”.
