Emma Stone suffered brutal 'organ shifting' side effect shooting Oscar winning movie
Hollywood superstar Emma Stone revealed the lengths she went while filming a smash-hit film, as her costume caused her organs to shift.
It seems Stone would like a word with one of their tailors after one of her outfits was a little too authentic, while filming The Favourite with the iconic Olivia Colman.
Colman took home the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Anne, with Stone playing one of two courtiers caught in a battle for her affection alongside Rachel Weisz.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Stone has gone on to work with him a few times since, including for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
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The remarkable role also won her a Best Actress Oscar in 2024, so it seems she has forgiven him for the mangling costumes.
Set in the 18th century, Stone, Colman and Weisz spent hours a day strapped into highly restrictive corsets.
She told Vogue it was 'my first time ever wearing a corset'.
Unless you're a goth or a burlesque star, many people don't tend to don the restrictive items in the modern era, and they're not without their perils if they are truly tight-laced.
"I can confirm it does shift your organs after a while," Stone added.
"It pulls you in, I have a very big rib cage, so it’s like an intense thing to manoeuvre... My body was definitely not built for a corset."
Fortunately, there was no lasting damage for the star: "My body shape was different for about a month after The Favourite," she revealed.
There was one expected bonus though: "Now I can hold my breath for a really long time underwater, and I think it's because of the corset."
She also talked about the costuming on The Graham Norton Show, and how times have changed: "Women existed in that for such a long time, which does give you a lot of sympathy for that time period and what [they] were going through."
"The bottom half of my stomach went down and then I guess just my ribs stayed up."
Her dedication to her roles doesn't go unnoticed though, with people raving about her physicality and commitment to the role for Poor Things, which put a feminist spin on Frankenstein.
She took home her second Best Actress Academy Award win for the role.
In case you missed it, the controversial film arrived on Netflix over the weekend, should you wish to see what all the fuss is about.
The film won an Oscar for costume design, and fortunately required no organs to be moved around, as the film actually features Stone in the nude for a lot of it.
Asked whether she felt awkward about it, she confessed to Screen Daily: “A little, because of my own societal stuff, but we had talked about the film and the way it would be done for so long, and I believed so deeply in Bella not having this shame, the camera didn’t need to have that shame either.
"She’s a very free being who doesn’t understand she’s supposed to feel the need to cover up, and it was a closed set, and we had this amazing intimacy co-ordinator who made it feel very safe," she added.
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Jen Thomas