Emma Stone Reveals How She Got Jennifer Aniston's Permission for a Wild Scene in "Bugonia": 'She Gets It' (Exclusive) Nigel SmithOctober 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM 0 Dan MacMedan/WireImage Emma Stone hugging Jennifer Aniston at the 2015 Oscars Jennifer Aniston makes a surprise appearance in Bugonia, but n...
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Jennifer Aniston makes a surprise appearance in Bugonia, but not in a way fans would expect
The film's star Emma Stone tells PEOPLE it was Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' idea to include the Friends actress
"She gets it," Stone says of Aniston, who is half Greek
Emma Stone and Jennifer Aniston team up for the first time together onscreen — kind of — in the new thriller Bugonia.
In Stone's fourth film with Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (he directed her to her second Oscar win in 2023's Poor Things), Stone, 36, plays a steely pharmaceutical CEO who gets kidnapped by two men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who are convinced she's an alien intent on destroying Earth. When the men arrive at her mansion to abduct her, they wear masks imprinted with Aniston's face.
Stone, who had a viral interaction with the Morning Show star, 56, at the 2024 Golden Globes, tells PEOPLE the Aniston masks were all Lanthimos' idea.
"He's a huge Friends fan," she explains. "He really is!"
Plemons, who has never worked with Aniston, admits that it took him "a little while to come around" to the idea of wearing a mask with her face on it while performing the harrowing sequence, and filming a scene where he and his co-conspirator burn the masks.
"Now I can't imagine anything else," he says. "Watching the Jennifer Aniston mask, watching her face burn in the fire in that sequence over and over and over again...."
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Emma Stone and Jennifer Aniston at the 2015 Oscars
As for how they got Aniston's permission to use her likeness in the film, Stone says all it took was an email.
"Yorgos and I emailed her to ask permission to make sure she knew what was going to be happening, and she's amazing," says Stone. "She was like, 'Go for it. Yes,' so supportive. But I don't think she's seen it yet, so hopefully she still feels that way."
After all, says Stone, Aniston is "half Greek." (Aniston's late father John Aniston, was born in Crete, Greece.) "I mean, she gets it."
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Stone and Lanthimos previously worked together on The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Poor Things earned Stone her second Best Actress Academy Award. (Her first Oscar was for La La Land in 2017.)
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Emma Stone and Jennifer Aniston
Written by Will Tracy, Bugonia is a reimagining of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!
Bugonia is in select theaters now, then nationwide Oct. 31.
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