Emma Stone pushed for Chappell Roan hit to be included in ‘Bugonia’
Emma Stone has shared how she got Chappell Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ into her new film Bugonia. (Focus Features/Getty)
Emma Stone has shared how she got Chappell Roan's 'Good Luck, Babe!' into her new film Bugonia. (Focus Features/Getty)
Poor Thing actress Emma Stone has revealed how she personally pushed to include a Chappell Roan song in her new film Bugonia.
The trailer of Yorgos Lanthimos latest film, the upcoming black comedy Burgonia, is overlaid with Roan’s 2024 smash “Good Luck, Babe!” and, in one scene, Stone’s leading character Michelle Fuller belts it while driving to work.
Speaking to MTV UK ahead of the film’s theatrical release on 31 October in the UK, Stone said that while there were “a lot of different songs” in contention for the scene, she asked whether they could reach out to Roan’s team to use the track.
“We were thinking about a lot of different songs but honesty, I just started obsessively listening to that album [Roan’s 2023 debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess] and was a huge fan,” she explained.
“I was like, ‘What if we could ask about ‘Good Luck, Babe!’? I feel like that would be incredible. [Roan’s team] were so amazing and within 24 hours approved the song to be used. We were like, ‘Amazing! ‘Cos we’re shooting it tomorrow.’
“It was incredible,” she added. “I hope she doesn’t regret that. Every time I see the trailer I’m like, ‘Oh God…’”
Speaking to Collider, Stone also suggested that the song – which is about a queer, sapphic relationship in which one of the women is closeted and unable to accept her sexuality – does relate to Bugonia’s themes.
“I was really drawn to that song. Yurogos was too. It’s interesting because thinking about the lyrics of it, there’s lots of things that as you break apart, it really does kind of speak to the themes of the film in some interesting ways,” she said.
“But [I’m] a big Chappell fan so it just worked out really well that I got to sing that song a million times.”
Following the release of Good Luck, Babe! In April 2024, Chappell Roan’s career went stratospheric. The track spent weeks at number two on the UK’s official chart, and was a top five smash in the US too. It earned three Grammy Award nominations at the 2025 ceremony for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Bugonia is Lanthimos and Stone’s fifth film collaboration, following on from 2018’s The Favourite, 2021 short film The Bleat, 2023’s Oscar-winner Poor Things, and last year’s Kinds of Kindness, which received middling reviews.
Bugonia follows Emma Stone as the CEO of a mammoth pharmaceutical company who is kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists (played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who believe that she is an alien. The pair force her to shave her head in order to prevent her from contacting her alleged “mothership”, and the role involved Stone actually cutting all of her hair off.
The film has received largely positive reviews from critics, and currently sits with an 89 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bugonia is out now in US cinemas and arrives in UK cinemas on 31 October.
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