Yorgos Lanthimos passed through the Lido this morning with Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, his first feature film since 2017’s The Favourite.
Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name, Poor Things follows Stone plays Bella Baxter, a creation of the brilliant and unorthodox scientist played by Willem Dafoe in an echo of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel Frankenstein.
Mark Ruffalo plays a slick and debauched lawyer in the pic, which also stars Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, and Christopher Abbott.
At the film’s official presser this afternoon, one topic continually raised by journalists in the room was sex, particularly how Lanthimos approached the film’s many sex scenes with his lead, Emma Stone.
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