BUGONIA Director Called Out by Dakota Johnson for Constantly Casting Emma Stone
Special Bugonia Screening Raises a Valid Point
Dakota Johnson moderated a Q+A/conversation at a recent Los Angeles screening of Bugonia and she suggested to Yorgos Lanthimos that there are other casting possibilities for the director’s future projects.
Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has cast Emma Stone in more than a couple of his movies. Stone has appeared in Lanthimos’s provocative films, The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and their newest movie collaboration, Bugonia. At a recent screening of Focus Features’ Bugonia with the filmmaker and star present, conversation moderator Dakota Johnson lovingly called the director out in order to make him aware that other actresses do, indeed, exist.
Dakota Johnson regrets moderating the conversations even though she raised some important points about the constant casting of the same lead actress in Lanthimos’s films. Johnson even suggested that Lanthimos cast her in his next film. Johnson certainly has the experience considering she appeared in the steamy dramatic love stories that were the Fifty Shades of Grey films.
Jesse Plemons also appeared at the conversation about Bugonia that happened yesterday. Plemons, Stone and even Johnson, herself, are in the running for Academy Awards nominations for their recent work. Stone and Plemons are both considered potential nominees for Bugonia while Johnson is a dark horse candidate for her work in a great A24 film, Materialists, which was released to solid reviews earlier this year.
While Lanthimos and Stone have reached the peak of their collaborations with Bugonia, don’t rule out the potential of them working together again just yet. Even if the pair take a break from making movies as a team, they still have such an impressive body of work with their collaborations. So impressive, in fact, that it may be necessary to work together again at some point after Lanthimos’s proposed break from directing finishes.
Bugonia is a big fall movie with a twist ending that rivals those great surprises found in old movies like The Crying Game and The Sixth Sense. It’s certainly a The Usual Suspects-level twist that is employed near the end of Bugonia which is about a kidnapped female CEO (Stone) who a peculiar man (Plemons) believes is an alien intent on destroying Earth.
Will Stone get another Oscar nomination for her turn in Bugonia? It all depends. Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) are the current front runners for Best Actress, but Stone could sneak in the back door with at least a nomination in that respective category. Johnson may not get nominated this year but could earn a nod in the future being as her performance in the terrific Materialists was truly something special and hints at great things to come.
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