Emma Stone Says She Made Poor Things to Explore ‘What It Is to Be a Woman’ in Extended Preview

Emma Stone felt empowered while filming her new movie Poor people.

In the new extended trailer for the upcoming Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film, the Oscar winner stars as Bella Baxter, a woman given a clean slate through an experimental procedure by mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Reborn, Bella gradually discovers the wonders – and dangers – of the world. Among these discoveries is her personal sexual awakening.

“I wanted to play Bella because she felt like embracing what it means to be a woman, to be free, to be scared and brave,” Stone, 34, says in the preview, calling Poor people “a very, very funny movie.”

“She understands what it means to be a member of society,” Stone says elsewhere of her character. “The more autonomous she becomes, the more challenging these men seem to be.”

Poor people is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and also stars Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley.

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Enter Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo Poor people (2023).

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Written by Tony McNamara, the film was rated R for “strong and pervasive sexual content, explicit nudity, disturbing material, gore and language.”

Lanthimos, 50, explained during a press conference at the New York Film Festival last month why the sex scenes in Poor people were key to the journey of Stone’s character Bella.

“It was a very important part of her journey. We felt we shouldn’t shy away from it,” he said. “It would be very disingenuous to tell this story about this character who is so free and so open, and then be discreet about the sexual aspect.”

“That was clear from the beginning, but also from the novel, from the script, from my conversations with Emma and how we arrived at those scenes,” continued the director, coming up with scenes of sexuality. “She had to be free; there should be no condemnation.”

Lanthimos explained, “The same way she learns about language and human suffering and love and science and politics, she should be just as free about sex and anything else.”

Emma Stone entered Poor people (2023).

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Stone, Lanthimos and Dafoe, 68, previously spoke about the making process Poor people in The New York Times profile of Dafoe published last March.

According to the release, there is a scene in the film where Stone slaps Dafoe in the face off-camera — but Dafoe had his costar slap him around 20 times in real life to make the action look more believable.

Stone also gave complimentary insight into the type of actor Dafoe is in her comments for times.

“There’s that performance instinct that a lot of actors have — ‘Look at me, look at me!’ kind of performer,” she said. – He is the opposite of that.

Poor people it’s in theaters on December 8.

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