Emma Stone opens up about filming s-x scenes with Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman for The Favourite... and why she showed her breasts on camera for the first time
She's never gone n-ked on camera, but Emma Stone broke her own rule for new film The Favourite.
While filming a s-x scene with co-star Olivia Colman, the actress removed a sheet covering her breasts, telling The Hollywood Reporter why she chose to expose herself.
'I had the sheet up around me, and as we were shooting it and we did a few takes, I said, "Can I please just be [n-ked]?" Olivia was like, 'No, don't do it!' [director] Yorgos [Lanthimos] was like, "Are you sure that's what you want to do?" And I was like, "Absolutely." I chose to do it. I was like, this makes sense to me.'
In the film Colman, who recently replaced Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, plays Queen Anne, while Stone plays Abigail Masham, a young woman vying for her affections.
The 1700s all-female love triangle is completed by Weisz as Abigail's cousin Sarah Jennings Churchill, ancestor of Winston, who is the Queen's closest adviser.
The trio pose together for this weeks Hollywood Reporter cover.
Colman, who is being tipped for the Best actress Oscar for her role, said one thing she loved about the film was it's very real portrayal of women.
'...women fart and vomit and hate and love and do all the things men do. All human beings are the same. We're all multifaceted, many-layered, disgusting and gorgeous and powerful and weak and filthy and brilliant. That's what's nice [about The Favourite]. It doesn't make women an old-fashioned thing of delicacy.'
Weisz spoke about the role of men in the film, with no major male parts.
'I guess what's interesting to me is that the men in The Favourite are wearing lots of makeup and blusher and lipstick and high heels.
'That they're peripheral characters who are slightly ridiculous. They're an afterthought. That may not be unusual in life, but it's unusual to see in films.'
