Total Film has released new images from Emma Stone's Poor Things, a Frankenstein-esque surrealist thriller in which Emma Stone plays a recently departed woman named Bella Baxter who is resurrected by a mad scientist portrayed by Willem Dafoe.
The images are from the magazine's most recent edition, in which Stone discloses that she made a mistake dying her hair, which actually had a huge impact on the production.
"Well, I remember I dyed my hair too dark and we had to kind of go with that," said Stone in the issue that hits newsstands on August 17.
Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos went on to mention that his goal was to toy with audience preconceptions when watching a story about a Frankenstein-like creature, and how Stone's hair color plays a role.
"That was an idea, that she’d be almost ahead of her time – a reactionary of sorts. But childlike and natural, and all these things. So we felt like, 'It’d be a great idea to dye her hair dark.' But then Emma went ahead and became jet black. And I was like, 'Alright.'
Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) are reunited following their collaboration on The Favourite, which won multiple accolades at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, the 72nd BAFTA Awards, the Golden Globes, and the 91st Academy Awards in 2018.
Poor Things is a surrealist science fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Tony McNamara (Cruella). The film is based on a 1992 novel of the same name, written by Alasdair Gray.
Recently, Poor Things had its domestic theatrical release delayed from September 8 to December 8, 2023, due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and the guild rules that prohibit actors from promoting their films. It's thought that Searchlight Pictures would like to make an awards season push for the film, which would obviously be hampered by this limitation.
Poor Things Official Synopsis: From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).
Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.