Emma Stone wasn’t shocked by how dark Cruella de Vil’s backstory is in Disney’s new live-action “Cruella.”
“Surprise is hard when you’ve been attached to the movie for four years and you’ve seen many different incarnations of the script,” Stone told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin while she promoted the film with co-star Emma Thompson. “I wasn’t surprised because I had seen all the permutations it was going through.”
Shock value aside, Stone said it was exciting to dive deep into the backstory of the sinister Disney villain.
“I thought that this was a really exciting and interesting reimagining of a character that we feel like we know on a surface level,” Stone said. “It was fun to go deeper into what makes her tick and what makes her so evil.”
Thompson, who plays Cruella’s fashion designer nemesis Baroness,...
“Surprise is hard when you’ve been attached to the movie for four years and you’ve seen many different incarnations of the script,” Stone told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin while she promoted the film with co-star Emma Thompson. “I wasn’t surprised because I had seen all the permutations it was going through.”
Shock value aside, Stone said it was exciting to dive deep into the backstory of the sinister Disney villain.
“I thought that this was a really exciting and interesting reimagining of a character that we feel like we know on a surface level,” Stone said. “It was fun to go deeper into what makes her tick and what makes her so evil.”
Thompson, who plays Cruella’s fashion designer nemesis Baroness,...
- 5/31/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
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