'Bugonia' trivia and fun facts
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Kidnapping scene
In Bugonia (2025)'s kidnapping scene, kidnappers wear Jennifer Aniston masks, an idea from Yorgos Lanthimos, a huge Friends fan. They obtained enthusiastic consent from Aniston, who is of half-Greek descent.
VistaVision
After successfully employing VistaVision for the reanimation sequence in Pobres criaturas (2023), director Yorgos Lanthimos decided to use this technology for the majority of scenes in this film. This is the third film of the 21st century shot substantially in VistaVision, after The Brutalist (2024) and Una batalla tras otra (2025).
Jerskin Fendrix
Yorgos Lanthimos asked composer Jerskin Fendrix to create the scores for Pobres criaturas (2023) & Kinds of Kindness (2024), by reading the scripts without seeing any footage of the films. For Bugonia (2025), Lanthimos did not provide the script, giving Fendrix only four key words to work with: "Bees. Basement. Spaceship. Emily-bald."
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Salvar el planeta tierra
Bugonia (2025) is an adaptation inspired by the 2003 South Korean film Jigureul jikyeora!. Initially, the original director, Jang Joon-hwan, was set to helm the project, working with American screenwriter Will Tracy on the screenplay. Due to health-related delays that prevented Jang Joon-hwan's continued involvement, CJ Entertainment, drawn to Yorgos Lanthimos' distinctive directorial vision, appointed him to lead the project forward instead.
Emma Stone
Emma Stone had her head shaved on camera, and just minutes before the scene was shot, she shaved the head of her friend, director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Los Angeles
For a free Bugonia (2025) screening in Los Angeles, attendees could have entered for free, but only if they were bald or agreed to shave their head on-site! Emma Stone revealed in an interview that it was her idea.