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‘We Suck. And We Know It. So We Keep Trying.’
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos explain what makes collaborations like Poor Things work so well.
Sitting next to each other at a Manhattan hotel just a few hours ahead of the premiere of their new film Poor Things, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos fall into a sort of Abbott and Costello routine, interrupting each other, playfully mocking each other, and finishing each other’s thoughts. When we meet Bella, she’s awakening on the table after throwing herself from a bridge, getting rescued by Baxter, and undergoing a mysterious operation that causes her to restart her mental development entirely from scratch, albeit at a wildly accelerated pace. In one of the weirdest, funniest, and most moving performances of the year, Stone charts Bella’s development from a tottering, tantrum-throwing, peeing-on-the-floor baby to an intellectually, emotionally, and sexually free woman, all over the course of two and a half hours.
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