11-08-2025
Emma Stone reveals heart-wrenching reason she cried before shaving her head for new role
Emma Stone followed in the footsteps of Sigourney Weaver, Demi Moore, and Natalie Portman by having her head shaved on camera with a 1.5-millimeter blade for her new movie, Bugonia.
Moments before, the 36-year-old movie star burst into tears in her trailer while remembering how her mother Krista Stone lost all of her hair during her triple-negative breast cancer battle.
'She actually did something brave. I'm just shaving my head,' Emma recalled thinking in her Vogue cover story Monday.
'My mom was like, "I'm so jealous. I want to shave my head again!"'
Stone and her mother celebrated her cancer-free status in 2008 by enlisting Paul McCartney to design a tattoo of birds feet for them because of their shared love for the Beatles ' 1968 song Blackbird.
In the sci-fi black comedy, two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) remove the long locks off the two-time Oscar winner's character Michelle, the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, to prove she's an alien.
Emma (born Emily) recalled the first shower she took after her dramatic makeover was 'amazing,' but she concealed her bald head beneath a wig while attending the New York Film Festival on October 5.
'I was bummed I wasn't going out with it,' Stone lamented. 'Just straight-up bald. I think that would have been fun.'
The Arizona-born beauty scoffed that her hair has been growing back 'pretty slowly for how long it's been' but her best friend Jennifer Lawrence loved the shaved look.
'I really didn't want her to shave her head. I had already lived through the Billie Jean King haircut,' the Oscar winner wisecracked via e-mail.
'Honestly, she looked beautiful. She pulled it off.'
Bugonia marked Emma's sixth collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos after The Favourite (2018), Bleat (2022), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024), and the music video for Jerskin Fendrix's song Beth's Farm (2025).
Emma will likely glam up to attend the world premiere of the Focus Features flick on August 28 held at Italy's Sala Grande during the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
The 51-year-old Greek filmmaker's remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! will eventually hit US theaters October 31 and UK theaters November 7.
Becoming mother to four-year-old daughter Louise Jean 'streamlined everything' for Stone, who's been married to Saturday Night Live writer Dave McCary since 2020.
'It's a clichéd thing to say, but it changes everything. And simplifies everything,' the Eddington actress gushed.
'There's nothing I feel luckier about. She's the greatest gift of my life, for sure.'
Emma and Dave - who co-founded their production company Fruit Tree in 2020 - just sold their newly renovated Austin, TX mansion which was on the market for $23.5M, according to
