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Emma Stone agreed to shave her head for a recent role, but she had one major condition before undertaking the "dramatic" transformation.
According to People, the Academy Award-winning actress, 37, had a stipulation for shaving off her long hair for her role in Bugonia — the film's director Yorgos Lanthimos also had to get the buzz. The part required her to maintain the buzzed look throughout filming, with the hair and makeup team re-shaving her head every three days to maintain continuity.
"When I knew we were gonna do this ... I said to Yorgos, 'We're gonna have to shave your head too so that we're in solidarity.' And he's like, 'Okay,'" she recalled.
The director stayed true to his word, allowing Stone to personally shave off Lanthimos' hair, but it wasn't exactly the end result she was looking for.
"It was exciting but it wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be to shave his head," she admitted. "It was cool. But it felt more dramatic, my shave. I don't mean to brag, but my hair was pretty long, and his was not."
Stone and Lanthimos have a long history of collaboration. Bugonia is the fourth Lanthimos film Stone has starred in, following The Favourite, Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things, the latter of which earned Stone her second Best Actress Oscar win.