Emma Stone has unveiled a bold new transformation for her next role. The 36-year-old Academy Award winner shaved her head to star in Bugonia, the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos.
The first trailer, released Thursday, August 28, introduces Stone as Michelle Fuller, a powerful pharmacy CEO who finds herself kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists convinced she’s an alien bent on destroying Earth.
Clips show Stone’s Fuller commuting from home to work as an eerie voiceover declares, “They want you to think it’s you, that it’s you who made this world. But it’s always been them,” all while Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck Babe” plays hauntingly in the background.
The trailer’s chilling narration continues: “All we’ve lost… All this been done to us… We’re setting that right again.” Moments later, Stone’s character is ambushed outside her home, knocked unconscious, and dragged to the so-called “headquarters of the Human Resistance,” where her head is shaved to stop her from “contacting” her mother ship.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Bugonia takes inspiration from Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 Korean sci-fi cult classic Save The Green Planet!.
This marks Stone’s fourth collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos, following The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness. Their most recent project, Poor Things, earned Stone her second Academy Award for Best Actress thanks to her unforgettable turn as Bella Baxter. Reflecting on the win, she admitted, “I think I blacked out. Yes, I was very shocked. I still feel like I’m spinning a little bit.”
Stone now holds two Best Actress Oscars, the first of which she won in 2017 for her role in the romantic musical La La Land.
