Overview

• At a Sept. 3 Q&A in New York, Emma Stone said she got “cold feet” right before the on-camera head shave.
• The scene was captured in a single take using four cameras, with the production shooting on VistaVision.
• Stone said a conversation with director Yorgos Lanthimos calmed her, and recalling her mother’s chemotherapy hair loss helped her commit.
• Written by Will Tracy as a reimagining of Save the Green Planet!, the film casts Stone as a pharmaceutical CEO abducted by conspiracy believers.
• Focus Features will release Bugonia in select theaters on Oct. 24 before a wide rollout on Oct. 31.