{"id":138229,"date":"2025-10-22T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:11:08","slug":"fans-shave-heads-to-see-emma-stone-starring-bugonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138229\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans shave heads to see Emma Stone-starring Bugonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans arrived for an early screening of the absurdist sci-fi comedy film Bugonia on Monday night in Los Angeles with one unique condition – the cinema only admitted bald people.<\/p>\n

The film’s distributor, Focus Features, challenged audiences to shave their heads to see Bugonia, starring double-Oscar-winner Emma Stone.<\/p>\n

Stone and Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos gained a powerful fanbase after teaming up for the Oscar-winning films Poor Things<\/a> and The Favourite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-nominated Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan (Poor Things, The Favourite) has also reunited with Lanthimos and Stone for the film, which opens in Ireland on 31 October.<\/p>\n

In Bugonia, Stone plays a powerful pharmaceutical CEO named Michelle Fuller, who is kidnapped by two conspiracy theorist cousins who are convinced that she’s an alien – so much so, they shave her head.<\/p>\n

Watch: The trailer for Bugonia<\/b><\/p>\n

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With a barber in the foyer, fans like Sam Sherman from Los Angeles stepped up to get their buzz cut to gain entry to the screening.<\/p>\n

“I was already thinking of shaving my head,” Sherman said.<\/p>\n

“I saw, like, a post about this and I was like, ‘That’s a perfect excuse, because I want to see Bugonia anyway – and I get to see it two weeks early or whatever it is, and then I get a free haircut and a free movie’. It’s hard to say no to that,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\nFans arrived for an early screening of the absurdist sci-fi comedy film Bugonia on Monday night in Los Angeles with one unique condition – the cinema only admitted bald people<\/p>\n

Matthew Lopez, 29, from Los Angeles, thought the bald screening inspired by Stone’s shaved head was a great idea.<\/p>\n

“It’s almost feeling immersive, like, ‘Ok, ‘I did it, she did it’. I can feel some connection to the story,” he said.<\/p>\n

For Richard Chong, 36, it was a chance to appease his friends and family.<\/p>\n

“I like the director. I think he’s really good, very weird, and my friends hate my bowl cut, so this is for them. Also, my wife – she really hates it,” Chong said.<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n

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