Grotesque Poor creatures! with Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo in competition at the Venice Film Festival presents sex scenes without Hollywood taboos. Director Yorgos Lanthimos and the actress believed that it could not be otherwise.
Yorgos Lanthimosas those who saw his previous project with Emma Stone, Most lovelyis not a director who follows generally accepted rules: his Poor beings!moved to competition To Venice Film Festival a few days ago, it’s a triumph grotesque visionary, where Emma and the rest of the actors, consisting of Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe AND Rami Yousefthey had to deal with the material with no doubt. Especially when it comes to Emma Stone and sex scenes. Lanthimos explained to Venice (via People) how they handled these difficult episodes.
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Poor beings! is an adaptation novel of the same name by Alasdair Grayreleased in 1992. The crazy plot predicts that Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), who died trying to escape her abusive husband, drowned, and then was returned to life from the experiment of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Reborn Bella he is not held back by any social restrictions or judgmentsand elopes with depraved lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). A visionary context in which Emma Stone also co-produced, relying on Lanthimos, who had already directed her on Most lovely. And he knew of the hardships on the horizon.
For me it was very important don’t make a puritanical moviebecause that would be betrayed the main character. So we had to have bravery. (…) The character should not have been ashamed, Emma didn’t have to be ashamed of her body, about nudity and participation in these scenes, and she immediately understood this. (…) There is mutual understanding between us, and we can communicate without explaining or saying too much. As soon as I started to say this, Emma said: “Yes, of course, Bella is like that. (We lit the scenery outside) to make sure there were only three people in the roomonly operators-operators. Sometimes there weren’t even sound engineers, we just placed microphones in some places. So it was just Robbie (Ryan, cinematographer), me, assistant director Hayley (Williams) and the cast. We created very comfortable and intimate environment. (…) There was a script, but specifically for the sex scenes, we discussed with Emma and decided: “What position should we do here, what should we do there, What is missing? Based on the experience of sex and the different desires of people, what should we do to make it one? effective representation of human desires and their characteristics? It was very important that this be part of the film and that we should not be ashamed of it.