Raquel R. Incertis Madrid
Madrid
Updated Sunday, January 28, 2024-00:17
Emma Stone
wants to be taken seriously. She wants to stop dying her hair fiery red. She wants to take off her high heels and bombastic dresses to undress in front of the camera and shout to the voyeur who watches her, perplexed on the other side of the screen: "Here I am, I'm going to act."
She does so now as Bella Baxter, a deceased woman who is reanimated and inserted into the brain of her own unborn daughter, in
Poor Creatures
, the hilarious and
wildly obscene
adaptation of Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos
. In it, Stone literally strips naked once, and again, and again. And another one, if she is needed. Here is Emily Jean Stone, born in Arizona in 1988, seasoned in musical theater and not a bit of a prude.
The multiple scenes of explicit sex, as disconcerting as they are scandalous, have raised eyebrows among some of the most traditional critics. In
Poor Things
, Emma Stone is not disgusted by anything. Because it is precisely through sex that Bella learns to understand her body and how others lust after it.
What some would call prostitution, Stone considers an experience of discovery
, the materialization of a non-guilty pleasure like any other, namely: gastronomy, philosophy, travel and dance. The actress herself has confessed in several interviews that she has never felt so close to a character; She had never before felt that impulse to be faced with the role of her life. The one capable of finally consecrating her as a star.
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Emma Stone: "Evil adds character... and is more photogenic"
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Emma Stone: "Evil adds character... and is more photogenic"
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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos amaze, fall in love and recover the freedom of sex in 'Poor Creatures' (****)
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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos amaze, fall in love and recover the freedom of sex in 'Poor Creatures' (****)
She, all smile, white skin, copper hair, wants to erase any trace of
cuteness
from her previous works. Without detracting from her naive performances, highly acclaimed for the passion, impeccability and that spark that Stone imprints on all her characters, the turn towards interpretive darkness that already began as a drug addict in
Birdman
(2014) and consolidated in
The Favorite
(2018 ), reaches
its climax in
Poor Creatures .
After debuting in the profession on the stage of Phoenix - an improvised remedy to cure her panic attacks - and accepting several minor roles on television during her adolescence, Emma Stone tasted the honeys of success starring in the romantic comedy
Crazy, Stupid, Love
and the drama
The Help
, both in 2011.
Her version of Gwen Stacy would later arrive in
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012) as a love interest - in fiction and in reality - of
Andrew Garfield
. The web-slinger film, where Stone emerged as a youthful heroine, became the highest-grossing film of her career. She paved the way for
La La Land
(2016), in which she seasoned her natural candidness with pseudo-romantic dialogue, touches of madness, and colorful dancing alongside
Ryan Gosling
. A pastel image that she broke, paradoxically, thanks to Disney, with her flesh and blood Cruella De Vil in 2021.
With all the pomp that characterizes
The City of Stars,
the
Hollywood
of dreams promises to give Emma Stone her second statuette, which adds to a large list of honors:
a BAFTA, a SAG and two Golden Globes
for best actress, in addition to the Volpi Cup. In 2012 she entered the list of the most promising actresses in Hollywood, she was the highest-paid performer in the world in 2017 and Time magazine
named
her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
But Emma Stone can't get enough. She, the image of Louis Vuitton, one of the most conservative brands in the luxury industry, seeks to carve out
a profile as an almost punk artist
, as she recently demonstrated in the meta-horror series
The Curse
. Now, with
Poor Creatures
, she wants to go wild, enjoy and be enjoyed, champion what they say that sex is life. Choreographed caresses and kisses have gone down in history. She likes
rock and roll.