Jennifer Lawrence revealed she “didn’t want” longtime friend Emma Stone to shave her head.
Stone, 36, shaved her head for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia. In a new Vogue cover story profile on the actress, her longtime friend Lawrence, 34, said: “I really didn’t want her to shave her head.”
“I had already lived through the Billie Jean King haircut,” the No Hard Feelings star continued, referencing Stone’s 2017 role as the iconic tennis player in Battle of the Sexes.
Despite her reservations, Lawrence said of her friend’s buzzed head, “Honestly, she looked beautiful,” adding that she “pulled it off.”
Stone said she loved her daring shaved head. “No better feeling in the world. The first shower when you’ve shaved your head? Oh my God, it’s amazing,” she told the outlet.
In Stone’s upcoming movie, which serves as her fourth feature-length film collaboration with Lanthimos, 51, she will play a fictional pharmaceutical CEO, who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis). Bugonia is a reimagining of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!
The actress’ hair is shaved in real time on camera during a scene in the film, per Vogue.
” ‘Here we go—Emily has shaved her head,’ ” Plemons, 37, told the outlet, before adding, “We better make this good!”
Stone revealed she shaved her director’s hair before shooting the scene. Afterward, the actress became emotional when seeing her shaved head. Stone’s mother, Krista Stone, shaved her own head while previously undergoing breast cancer treatment.
“She actually did something brave,” Stone told Vogue. “I’m just shaving my head.” She then revealed, “My mom was like, ‘I’m so jealous. I want to shave my head again.’ “
Stone won her second Best Actress Academy Award for the Victorian Frankenstein-inspired Poor Things in 2023, which was also directed by Lanthimos. Lawrence was onstage alongside presenter Michelle Yeoh, who handed off the Oscar to Lawrence so that she could award it to her longtime close friend.
“In true Emily form, as soon as we got offstage and ran into the bathroom to scream and cry,” Lawrence said about the moment. “I whispered, ‘Two-time best-actress winner,’ and she replied, ‘I feel like that’s bad, though.’ “
Bugonia hits theaters on Oct. 31.
