Poor Things

In 2023 he released Poor Things, a fantasy comedy-drama starring Stone as a pregnant young woman named Victoria Blessington who dies by suicide and is brought back to life by an eccentric scientist named Godwin (“God”) Baxter (Willem Dafoe), who renames her Bella. In a Frankenstein-like twist, the revived…

and Yorgos Lanthimos’s award-winning Poor Things. Dafoe was cast as a brilliant but sadistic scientist in the latter movie, which was inspired by Frankenstein. In 2024 he appeared in another Lanthimos film, Kinds of Kindness, a dark comedy about control and consent. That year he also reunited with Eggers…

…features by director Yorgos Lanthimos: Poor Things (2023), which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Qualley is “willing to try things without questioning anything, and she loves to explore,” Lanthimos told Bazaar in 2023. “I also like the fact that she doesn’t take herself too…

…in the dark comedy fantasy Poor Things, which was directed by Lanthimos. For her performance, Stone won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy film and an Oscar for best actress. She continued to work with Lanthimos, starring in his Kinds of Kindness (2024). The…