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Emma Stone: “Shame was like an addiction for me”
Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos had already worked together on the short film “Bleat”. Now a new film is being released by Lanthimos and starring Oscar winner Stone: “Poor Things”. photo
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The new film with Emma Stone, “Poor Things”, will be released soon. The comedy made her rethink some things, says the 35-year-old Oscar winner.
The American Oscar winner, who hails from Arizona, stars in “Poor Things”, the new film by Giorgos Lanthimos. The focus is on the protagonist Bella, to whom feelings of shame are completely alien.
“I internalized a lot of things that I felt guilty about or ashamed of,” Stone said. “And I really think that the last few years of my life – and Bella is no small part of that – has been about questioning why I believe these things. And whether it really comes from me or whether it comes from outside.”
Stone plays a very unusual role in “Poor Things”: a grown woman with the brain of a small child. A megalomaniacal scientist named Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) fished her out of a river as a pregnant corpse, inserted her unborn baby’s brain into her body, and revived her. Concepts like politeness or etiquette – and of course shame – are completely alien to Bella. The film opens in German cinemas on January 18th.
Trailer for the film