Emma Stone Wore Nearly Four Feet of Hair Extensions For Her Role in ‘Poor Things’

“[The hair] is sort of its personal character,” Stacey says. “It says one thing about who she is. It’s this fixed reminder of this actually stark, jet-black hair in opposition to all this superb shade. She does not slot in every thing round her. She’s sort of alien in all of that — she’s totally different.”

The size and elegance additionally function a technique to distinguish Bella from her former self in addition to different girls of that point. “She does not know that there are society norms, and whenever you return in historical past, [an updo] could be the correct factor to have; to not see your hair down like that,” Stacey says. “However Bella would not know any of these guidelines. And that is why it is such a show of who she is.”

To perform the various hair lengths, Stacey micro braided underlying sections of Stone’s pure hair on both facet of her head; wefts of hair had been anchored to the braids after which blended with the pure hair. As Bella’s “grew,” Stacey switched to longer wefts, going from 30 inches to 36 inches and ending with 42 inches of hair — nearly 4 ft lengthy.

Except one character, wigs weren’t utilized within the movie in any respect, in response to Stacey, as a result of Lanthimos “hates” them. “I believe even with the perfect wigs, when you noticed that it was faux, it takes every thing away from who Bella is,” Stacey says. “She’s this pure being.” She additionally notes that Mark Ruffalo’s hair and mustache within the movie had been his personal and styled accordingly.

A Second for Make-up

One of many solely occasions we see make-up within the movie is when Bella makes her technique to Paris and begins working at a brothel with intercourse employees below Madame Swiney (Kathryn Hunter). For his or her make-up, Stacey says they performed off the colours of the movie’s units, which incorporate shades of “anatomical issues.” Assume shades of pink and purple to symbolize veins and purple for blood.