Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence are close enough that they share their real opinions, like the fact that Lawrence didn’t want Stone to drastically change her appearance for her upcoming movie, Bugonia, her latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
“I really didn’t want her to shave her head,” Lawrence wrote in an email to Vogue for a story published online Monday. “I had already lived through the Billie Jean King haircut.”
Stone wore the King haircut when she played the tennis great in 2017’s Battle of the Sexes versus Steve Carell’s Bobby Riggs, in a take on the real-life athletic match between the two in 1973.
This time around, she cut off her signature red locks to play the CEO of a pharmacy company who’s kidnapped by conspiracy theorists convinced that her character’s hair must go. So they shave it, in a scene that depicts the actors — Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis — cutting Stone’s actual hair.
While Lawrence didn’t start out as the biggest fan of the look, seeing Stone without her hair was a different story.
“Honestly, she looked beautiful,” Lawrence noted. “She pulled it off.”
The Eddington star herself approved, saying there’s “no better feeling in the world.”
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Stone added, “The first shower when you’ve shaved your head? Oh my God, it’s amazing.”
Still, the cut did make her emotional. It reminded the two-time Oscar winner of her mother, Krista Stone, losing her hair when she was treated for breast cancer after being diagnosed in 2008. But she wouldn’t compare their experiences.
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“She actually did something brave,” Stone recounted thinking. “I’m just shaving my head.”
The La La Land actress said her mom ended up being “so jealous” of her new style, which she wore hats and wigs to cover until her secret was out.
Stone’s new film is expected to hit theaters Oct. 24.
