Golden Globe Winner Emma Stone Calls ‘Poor Things’ A “Rom-Com”, Says Her Character Bella “Made Me Look At Life Differently”
deadline.com“Playing Bella was unbelievable,” said Emma Stone of her character Bella Baxter in Poor Things. “Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person.
And she accepts the good and the bad in equal measure. And that really made me look at life differently. She has stayed with me,” Stone said accepting the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Bella is a Victorian woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She grows restless under Baxter’s protection and runs off with a slick, debauched lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) on a whirlwind European adventure.
The reanimation appeared problematic, as Baxter had given Bella the brain of an infant. Stone’s comic physicality sees Bella lurch and sway.
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