Being an Oscar-winner in addition to a field workplace champ, Emma Stone can do no matter she needs. And what she needs to do is play Cruella de Vil. We’ve lengthy identified the actress was headlining Cruella — Disney’s newest live-action twist centered on a feminine animated villain, after Malificent — and we’ve lengthy identified her model can be a bit extra punk rock than Glen Close’s de Vil from the older live-action 101 Dalmation collection. And with Disney’s D23 Expo in full swing this weekend, we had been sure to lastly get a peak at what she’ll appear like.
And so we’ve got. Behold the star of Easy A in her new digs.
Here’s your first take a look at Emma Stone as Cruella de Vil in Disney’s Cruella. The movie, additionally starring Emma Thompson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Joel Fry, involves theaters May 28, 2021. #D23Expopic.twitter.com/KqxJ0yMYQ3
The pic exhibits her with Cruella’s patented completely segmented black-and-white hair, however with darker apparel, in addition to some vaguely mean-looking dalmations. She stands amidst what seems to be like city rubble, flanked by two swarthy henchmen.
There are few specifics in regards to the movie, although it’s reportedly a prequel in regards to the youthful Cruella, with a extra blackly comedian twist.
Since profitable her Academy Award for La La Land in 2017, the actress has largely steered away from blockbusters, doing smaller, difficult fare, together with final 12 months’s The Favourite. (Perhaps one motive she hasn’t decamped for comedian ebook fare is as a result of she’s been there, executed that, having performed Gwen Stacy within the Amazing Spider-Man diptych.) That her thought of a blockbuster is a punk Cruella de Vil speaks volumes of the place she needs her profession to go.
Cruella is at present scheduled for May 28, 2021, i.e., Memorial Day weekend.