So That’s Why Emma Stone Shaved Her Head
For everyone (mainly Jennifer Lawrence) who went wild over Emma Stone shaving her whole head: Well, how’s it look? Stone’s next movie, Bugonia, is a collaboration with her favourite director, Yorgos Lanthimos. In the film, after Stone’s CEO character is kidnapped by conspiracy theorists, they shave her head in the back of a Range Rover. Lanthimos taped the head-shaving live, so there was only one shot. “It was like, ‘Here we go — Emily has shaved her head,’” Jesse Plemons, who plays the conspiracist doing the shaving, told Vogue. “We better make this good!”
Stone debuted her new short haircut at the Golden Globe Awards in January, but speculation began the previous October, when she was seen adjusting a wig styled to look like her real hair while at the New York Film Festival. “I really didn’t want her to shave her head,” Stone’s longtime friend Lawrence told Vogue in their August cover story. “I had already lived through the Billie Jean King haircut.” But Stone herself was thrilled, saying, “The first shower when you’ve shaved your head? Oh my God, it’s amazing.” Below, everything we know so far about this bald beauty, including our first full look via the trailer.
Behold, the Bugonia trailer.
Stone plays a CEO who should really have a sit-down with Nicole Kidman’s “girlboss in the process of imploding” character in Babygirl. #GirlPower doesn’t help when she gets kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists who believe that she is an alien, shave her head “to prevent you from contacting your ship,” and keep her in their house. “In the next 48 hours, the police and the FBI will begin a statewide manhunt,” Stone threatens. “I’m a high-powered female corporate executive.” The August 28 trailer teases mind games between the two sides with Stone at one point telling her captor, “I know you, too, Teddy,” from across the dinner table. This, for a yet-unknown reason, causes him to attack her. By the way, it’s all set to a string-heavy horror remix of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan — another woman with beautiful red hair.
Who else is in the cast?
Stone will be facing off against Plemons, whom she previously co-starred with in the Lanthimos project Kinds of Kindness. Kirsten Dunst’s husband is joined by newcomer Aidan Delbis as his co–conspiracy theorist. Bugonia also features comedian and Stavvy’s World podcast host Stavros Halkias and another former Lanthimos cast member, Alicia Silverstone, who played Barry Keoghan’s mother in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
The movie was written by Will Tracy — who is best known for writing the 2022 class satire The Menu — and is based on the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!
When is the release date?
Bugonia will open in wide release on October 24 after premiering at the Venice International Film Festival on August 28. “With Bugonia, it feels like [Lanthimos has] entered our world at last, at least for a while,” Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri wrote. “Which also makes it maybe the saddest film he’s ever made.” Should we all make like #GentleMinions and shave our heads to go see it?
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