CAUGHT THE BUG'

Dream team delivers another winner

- By Lynn Rusk

SINISTER: Chilling scene from Bugonia, (above) Jesse Plemons as Teddy and (left and below) Emma Stone as Michelle

WHEN Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos first worked together on The Favourite in 2018, a beautiful creative collaboration was born.

Since then, the pair have reunited on several projects, including Poor Things in 2023, which earned Stone her second Academy Award for Best Actress.

Their latest collaboration, Bugonia, offers a darkly comic glimpse into the modern age of conspiracy theories and paranoia.

Stone, 36, who also serves as a producer on the film, stars as Michelle, a ruthless CEO of a pharmaceutical company that manufactures drugs and pesticides.

A remake of the 2003 Korean cult classic Save the Green Planet!, the story follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men, Teddy and Don, played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, who kidnap Michelle, convinced she is an alien sent to destroy humanity.