Emma Stone had cold feet about shaving her head for "Bugonia"

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Emma Stone had cold feet about shaving her head for "Bugonia"

Writer: Heidi Hsia

Emma Stone really went bald for alien CEO role

8 Sep - Emma Stone recently admitted that she was actually panicking on the set of her new Yorgos Lanthimos movie, "Bugonia", just moments before her character was about to have her hair shaved.

The actress, who made headlines for appearing bald in the film, plays the role of a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO who is believed to be an alien sent to destroy Earth, and is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis).

The story also involves a scene where her character loses all her hair, which Stone said that she knew from the start she had to do as there was no other way to approach the scene without sacrificing her hair.

"It was a year and a half I knew that I was going to be shaving my head, and then the day of, they were setting up four cameras, because we had to get it in one shot and we were shooting on VistaVision for the most part, which is a gorgeous but very moody camera that will shut down a lot... so they were setting up, and it was taking a long time to set all the cameras up. And I just started kind of panicking about that," she explained.

The actress appears bald in the movie

Stone said that she was comforted by Lanthimos, and that she finally calmed down after she recalled her mother's chemotherapy treatment in 2008 for breast cancer.

"She did something legitimately hard and she lost her hair. And the first thing she said was, 'I am so jealous, I want to shave my head again.' And I was like, I'm shaving my head because I get to do what I love, and my mum was there with me, and I was like, 'What a gift! It's hair.' So it was actually one of the greatest experiences of my life, very freeing, and it's just hair. I thought it would be longer by now, but it's just hair!" she expressed.

"Bugonia" is Stone's fourth film with Lanthimos, following "The Favourite" (2018), "Poor Things" (2023) and "Kinds of Kindness" (2024).