Emma Stone reunites with Yorgos Lanthimos
Since her Best Actress Oscar for The The Earth in 2017, Emma Stone it’s getting a little rarer. The actress has “only” appeared in five films in the past six years. But we will find it soon poor creatures From Yorgos Lanthimos which seems atypical to say the least.
Inside, the actress plays Bella Baxter, brought back to life by a scientist (played by Willem Dafoe). A base that remembers the myth of Frankenstein. But the heroine will behave quite strangely, because his mental age and body are out of sync.
With poor creaturesEmma Stone collaborates again with Yórgos Lánthimos, four years later The favourite (2019). The actress and the director already have an upcoming project together scheduled for 2024. Suffice it to say, they know each other well and their chemistry will have been essential for this film.
Particularly because the feature film contains sex scenes which visibly marked the first spectators who were able to see poor creatures at the Venice Film Festival. IndieWire he thus wrote that the film features “more hot sex and nudity than you probably saw in a studio film for a long time“.
The importance of sex scenes in poor creatures
The American media explain it, in poor creatures, Bella has an adult body but her mind is starting over. She must therefore learn to walk, talk and behave with the world around her. Her journey also leads him to rediscover sexuality. Yórgos Lánthimos would later stage “lots of sex scenes involving Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo“.
During the film’s press conference at the Venice Film Festival, the director talked about these sequenceswhich were filmed with the presence ofan intimacy coordinator Who “it proved invaluable“.
First, he clarified that the sex scenes are originally important in Alasdair Gray’s novel on which the film is based, because it deals with heroin freedomand therefore also his sexual freedom.
It was very important to me not to make a prudish film, because it would have completely betrayed the main character. We had to be confident and, again, like the character, feel no shame.
A vision shared by Emma Stonethat she herself spoke about the importance of these scenes in the promotional video of the film below:
A trust between the director and his actress
Due to her condition, the heroine has no modesty and to embody her best it was therefore necessary that Emma Stone also accepted”don’t be ashamed of her body, of her nakedness“, added the director. The actress understood Yórgos Lánthimos’ approach perfectly and she trusted him after working several times with the director.
The great thing about Emma is that we have now completed four films together (including a short film and an upcoming film, ed). Things go faster. As soon as I started saying what I just explained to you, she said, “Yes, sure, I get it, she’s Bella.”
However, the director made sure to minimize the number of people present to shoot these scenes. A way for him to make sure more comfort and privacy to his actress. The presence of intimacy coordinator Elle McAlpine was also instrumental in realizing “things are much easier for everyone“.
Emma and the actors she was rehearsing with, Mark Ruffalo, who she had done a lot of sex scenes with, were all familiar in rehearsal.
Finally, these sequences have been carefully prepared and in direct collaboration with Emma Stone.
We sat down with Emma and brainstormed together. What kind of position would they have here? What kinds of things would they do there? What is missing from people’s sexual experience and the different desires that we have to represent in order to sufficiently represent human desire and its particularities?.
poor creatures will be released in theaters on January 17, 2024.
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Source: Cine Serie
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