THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – The Curse began with an actual curse, or at least the threat of one. When Nathan Fielder first moved from Canada to L.A. in 2009, a woman approached him on the street asking for a handout. He told her he had no money. She replied, “I curse you.”

That anecdote, described by Fielder to pal Benny Safdie, was the seed for one of the most startling and innovative shows in recent memory. Fielder, whose spins on reality TV in shows like HBO’s The Rehearsal have earned him a devoted fan base (Christopher Nolan among them), and Safdie (who, with brother and ex-directing partner Josh, made Uncut Gems) cooked up a bitter black comedy that in part skewered HGTV programming. The duo cast themselves as childhood friends — one of them, Asher Siegel (Fielder), a nebbish, budding reality star burdened with a micropenis — making a pilot about a couple trying to create a village of eco-friendly homes in the New Mexican desert. To play Asher’s deeply insecure, social justice warrior wife, Whitney, Fielder enlisted his friend Emma Stone. (In reality, Stone is married to The Curse executive producer and former Saturday Night Live writer Dave McCary, while Fielder is in a long-term relationship with Amber Schaeffer, a segment director on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and SNL.) Stone, 35, joined the production having just wrapped filming Poor Things, the feature that would earn her a second Oscar.

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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos cover the newest issue of Variety to promote their movie Poor Things. Find gorgeous outtakes, scans and the video interview below :

On October 04, Emma Stone attended the New York Film Festival to promote the short film ‘Bleat‘ with director Yorgos Lanthimos. As you know, with the strike going on, Emma can’t promote Poor Things but she can promote Bleat because they got an interim agreement. She looked lovely. She joked about doing a Q&A as long as the length of the movie. She also said she wants to do a silent film next! Find all the pictures in the gallery, read Variety‘s report about the Q&A here and the full interview below.

VOGUE – When we first meet Bella Baxter, the character that Emma Stone brings to life in the upcoming Yorgos Lanthimos film Poor Things, she is a 19th-century European woman with the brain of an infant. The subject of a strange experiment by her guardian, Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), with assistance from his associate, Max McCandless (Ramy Youssef), Bella is grasping at sentience, throwing dishes to the floor and stomping around in voluminous, puffy-sleeved frocks as she ages and matures at hyper-speed.

Watching Bella’s mental age catch up to her physical development is eerie, to be sure—for an explanation of how all of this works, see Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name, adapted for this film by Tony McNamara—but it’s also strangely empowering. Of all the pleasures that the world has in store, sex is perhaps her most important discovery, and as Bella pursues it with verve, she emerges as a rare female protagonist who simply has no regard for societal judgment. When a former lover, played by Mark Ruffalo, tries to shame her for working at a brothel in Paris, she shoots back: “We are our own means of production.” (As it happens, she and a colleague are on their way to a meeting for young socialists.)

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Find under the cut many interviews done for the remote Cruella press tour:

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