Emma Stone on Becoming Cruella de Vil and Her 40 Costume Changes (Exclusive)

Last week, Emma Stone and Emma Thompson starrer Cruella hit theatre screens in the US and there's been plenty of talk regarding the iconic Disney villain Cruella de Vil's dark backstory as aspiring fashion designer Estella Miller transforms into the notorious criminal.

Though “Cruella” is the latest Disney film to test the hybrid Disney+/theatrical release model, the live-action film starring Emma Stone debuted with a solid $26.5 million after the long Memorial Day Weekend in North America.

Emma Stone has been garnering many praises for her knockout performance as the iconic Disney villain Cruella de Vil in Cruella, which released in the US last week. However, there's also a major debate regarding how dark Cruella's storyline is, especially when it comes to Estella Miller's backstory.

Emma Stone recently stunned the audiences after she appeared in a non-recognizable avatar for Disney's recent release Cruella. The film stars Stone as one of Disney's deadliest female villains, Cruella de Vil who was first brought to the screen by Glenn Close in the 1996 film 101 Dalmatians and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians.

Emma Stone's latest stint as Disney's iconic villain Cruella de Vil in Cruella is garnering the Oscar-winning actress tons of praise as many are left spellbound by her transformative performance. But, fans were also quick to notice that Cruella's signature cigarette holder, which featured heavily in 1961's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, wasn't a part of the movie, which Emma herself was very disappointed about.

There was one thing that made it difficult to transform completely into Cruella for Emma Stone.

After several delays, Disney’s Cruella has finally released! In the film, Emma Stone takes centre stage as the brilliant villain Cruella De Vil! In addition to Stone taking on the eponymous dog-hating villain, the movie also stars Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beecham, and Mark Strong.

Joker” of Disney. Like the pitch-black Joaquin Phoenix film, it explains the origins and psychology of an infamous villain — this time, Cruella de Vil from “101 Dalmatians.” How can we possibly come to understand and like a person who’s best known for plotting to skin adorable puppies and sew them into a coat? Who a lyric once described as “like a spider waiting for the kill?”It’s actually quite easy, because the wondrous Emma Stone plays her.The two-toned villainess wasn’t always Cruella,

Emma Stone in “Cruella”?Sadly, no, none of it was her real hair. Very few actors would die their hair two different colors in that drastic of a fashion.

Cruella days before the movie premiered in the UK.

Kate Middleton and Prince William continue to go about their Scotland tour and on Wednesday organised a drive-in movie screening for the NHS staff who have been working tirelessly amid the pandemic and on the frontline. The movie being screened was Craig Gillespie's Cruella which opens in theatres this Friday.

really wanting to butcher innocent pets, the film feels like yet another indication of the limits of the contemporary movie industry’s habit of trying to milk old, familiar IP for the sake of built-in audience,” Slate’s Karen Han writes.

Emma Thompson made a hilarious wardrobe confession as she discussed her new movie Cruella on Wednesday morning's instalment of Lorraine.The iconic 62 year old actress admitted that it was "torture" getting into costume for Disney's brand new live-action prequel, in which she plays the Baroness von Hellman while Emma Stone takes on the titular role. 'I don't wear underwear, full stop.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhat’s black and white and red all over? A Dalmatian thief with a diaper rash.

Emma Thompson had her “Cruella” co-star Emma Stone in tears during an interview for “Lorraine” Wednesday.

Angelique Jackson Jerrod Carmichael is the latest star to sign on for Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming adaptation of “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone.Based on Alasdair Grey’s novel, the film from Searchlight, Element Pictures and Film4 also stars Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef.In the Victorian-set tale — with a Frankenstein-esque bent — Stone plays a young woman named Belle Baxter who is brought back to life by an eccentric and brilliant scientist, Dr.

Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo has joined Emma Stone in the cast of “Poor Things,” the next film from “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, Searchlight Pictures announced Friday.Willem Dafoe has also joined the film that’s set up at Searchlight and Film4. Lanthimos’ film is an adaptation of the novel “Poor Things” by Alasdair Grey.

Angelique Jackson Mark Ruffalo will star opposite Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming adaptation of “Poor Things.”Ruffalo, an Emmy winner and three-time Oscar nominee, joins Oscar winner Stone and four-time nominee Willem Dafoe in the film adaptation of Alasdair Grey’s novelLanthimos will direct and produce the film for Searchlight Pictures, Film 4 and Element Pictures.

Is there an actor working today that makes better career decisions than Mark Ruffalo? Even when you think something isn’t such a great choice or is a bit mind-boggling, such as when he accepted the role of Bruce Banner (aka The Hulk) in “The Avengers” so soon after Edward Norton rebooted the character, things turn out to work better than anyone could have imagined.