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Yorgos Lanthimos fans based in Los Angeles eager to see his latest film for free are in luck: a cinema is offering complimentary tickets to a special screening on Monday to anyone who is either already bald or is willing to have their head shaved in the foyer first.<\/p>\n
The initiative is in homage to Emma Stone\u2019s character in the film, a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO kidnapped by conspiracy theorists (played by Jesse Plemons<\/a> and Aidan Delbis) who believe she is an alien and shave her hair off.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you bald, or willing to shave your head?\u201d reads the event posting<\/a>. \u201cOn Monday, 10\/20, head to [the Culver Theater] for a FREE advanced screening of Bugonia \u2013 the new @focusfeatures<\/a> fever dream from Yorgos Lanthimos.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyone with hair but eager for both a free ticket and a gratis haircut should arrive after 6pm, when a barber will be present to \u201cshave it all off\u201d.<\/p>\n The cinema adds: \u201cThis is real. And yes, part of it will be filmed.\u201d Hopefuls need to RSVP, as there is limited availability, and they need to be over 18. Bugonia was given an R rating in the US by the Motion Picture Association.<\/p>\n The latest collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone, following The Favourite in 2018, Poor Things in 2023, and Kinds of Kindness in 2024, has won warm notices from festival screenings. In interviews, the actor has evangelised about the radical hair choice, telling Vogue there is \u201cno better feeling in the world\u201d than a freshly bald pate. \u201cThe first shower when you\u2019ve shaved your head? Oh my God, it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Stone went on to make a distinction between her own decision to cut her hair for the film, and the experience of her mother, Krista, who lost her hair while being treated for breast cancer in 2008. \u201cShe actually did something brave,\u201d said Stone. \u201cI\u2019m just shaving my head.\u201d<\/p>\n Jada Pinkett-Smith\u2019s bald head was the subject of a joke made by Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, when he likened her look to GI Jane, played by Demi Moore in the military drama. It remains unclear whether Rock realised Pinkett-Smith has alopecia, but the joke caused her husband, Will Smith, to take to the stage and slap Rock, saying: \u201cTake my wife\u2019s name out of your fucking mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n It led to Smith \u2013 who went on to win the Oscar for leading actor later that evening \u2013 being banned from Academy events for a decade.<\/p>\n Bugonia is on limited release in the US from 24 October and on general release from 31 October. It will be released in Australia on 30 October and the UK on 31 October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n