During a press conference dedicated to the presentation of the film, the director spoke on behalf of Emma Stone about the numerous sex and nude scenes with the participation of the Oscar-winning actress.
Poor creatures!New film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos starring Emma Stone, was the protagonist of the third day of the Venice Film Festival 2023. This morning, as usual, a press conference was held in which only the Greek director attended, given the absence of actors due to the strike of the SAG union. During the meeting with journalists, the director was able to talk about many sex scenes and naked starring Oscar-winning actress La La Land. Here’s what the director had to say!
Yorgos Lanthimos on Emma Stone’s sex and nude scenes Poor creatures!
“Too bad Emma can’t be here to talk more about this, because now I’ll have to talk about these things!“, began the director Poor creatures!. “First of all, it should be clarified that sex is an integral part of the novel underlying the film, sex expresses the freedom that Bella discovers, and her journey through the world takes place primarily through sexuality. Secondly, it was very important for me to show realistic sex and not make the film hypocritical, otherwise we would have completely betrayed the main character. However, for this we had to be sure that Emma would not be ashamed of her body, her nakedness, her participation in these kinds of scenes, and she said that she was immediately available.“.
Based on the 1992 novel of the same name written by Alasdair Gray, it also stars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Rami Yousef and Jerrod Carmichael. Poor creatures! The focus is on the character of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by a scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter, who protects her while she is instead interested in the new world she lives in. Bella decides to elope with Duncan Wedderburn, a small-time lawyer, to travel the continents in search of freedom and equality that she didn’t have in her time.