Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming Frankenstein-inspired fantasy “Poor Things” felt like a “college campus” for his cast, including Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Ramy Youssef, who were all tasked with learning new skills.Youssef and Dafoe were assigned to mortician school, with classes based on the 19th-century approach to autopsies and embalming.
Dafoe portrays the unorthodox scientist who brings Bella Baxter (Stone) back to life.“It was like: ‘Mark [Ruffalo] is going to accent class, Emma is going to dance class, and then me and Willem are going to hang with the mortician, and we’ll link back up at lunch,’” Youssef told Empire magazine.
“It felt like a college campus.”As for Dafoe’s dedication to learning how to be a mortician, Youssef continued, “Willem got really focused on it.
I’d be joking around, stitching something up – I kind of had a knack for it because my…
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