Emma Stone had to persuade director Yorgos Lanthimos to let her go topless in her new movie The Favourite. According to reports on TheHollywoodReporter.com, the actress decided to bare her breasts for the first time in a movie when she realised a love scene with Olivia Colman required her character to be naked — to make co-star Rachel Weisz’s Lady Sarah jealous. “I had the sheet up around me, and as we were shooting it and we did a few takes, I said, ‘Can I please just be (naked)?’ I think it’s going to give Sarah ( Rachel’s character) something to look at when she sees that I’m not just under the sheet covered up.
Olivia was like, ‘No, don’t do it!’ Emma revealed, adding, “Yorgos (Lanthimos) was like, ‘Are you sure that’s what you want to do?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ I chose to do it. I was like, this makes sense to me.”
