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Emma Stone Shaved Her Head for ‘Bugonia’ After Making Yorgos Lanthimos Join Her

A People behind-the-scenes video documents the on-set head shaves that underpinned the character’s look.

Overview

  • Newly released footage from People shows Stone cutting her own hair and then shaving director Yorgos Lanthimos’s head.
  • Stone says she agreed to the drastic cut on the condition that the director do it too as a gesture of solidarity.
  • In Bugonia, she plays CEO Michelle Fuller, whose captors believe her hair is an antenna, with the film now playing in cinemas.
  • Stone concealed the change under hats and wigs for months before unveiling a short style publicly at the Golden Globes in March.
  • For continuity the production re-shaved her head roughly every three days, and she recalls briefly panicking before a single-take scene shot on VistaVision.