'Poor Things' director Yorgos Lanthimos said star Emma Stone had to have 'no shame' filming the movie's graphic sex scenes. 'It was very important for me to not make a film that was going to be prude,' Lanthimos said Friday at the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere.
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, a film adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name which features several unflinchingly graphic sex scenes. According to director Yorgos Lanthimos, Stone tackled her character — Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back from the dead who explores her newfound freedom, including sexually — with zero inhibitions or self-consciousness.
"It was very important for me to not make a film that was going to be prude, because it would be completely betraying the main character. So we had to be confident," Lanthimos said Friday at the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere. "The character [had to] have no shame, and Emma had to have no shame about her body, nudity and engaging in those scenes, and she understood that right away.
"You can understand there is a shorthand [between us] and we can communicate without having to explain or talk too much about things. So as soon as I started saying this, [Emma] said, ‘Yes, of course, it’s Bella. We will do what we need to do,'" he recalled of pushing the envelope with the intimacy scenes.To keep the filming environment comfortable for Stone and her costars, the crew got creative with how the sex scenes were shot, including lighting sets from outside.
"It was important for all of us for it to be part of the film and not shy away from it," Lanthimos added.to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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