The new film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite, focuses on a love triangle between England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), who ruled in the 18th century, her chief adviser Sarah Jennings Churchill (Rachel Weisz) and Sarah’s scheming cousin Abigail Mashan (Emma Stone).

This film is Emma Stone‘s nude debut and she was the one who asked to strip. In a scene in bed next to another woman, Emma decided that nudity would make a difference.

“I had the sheet up around me,” Emma told The Hollywood Reporter “And as we were shooting it and we did a few takes, I said, ‘Can I please just be naked?’ I think it’s going to give Sarah something to look at when she sees that I’m not just under the sheet covered up. Olivia was like, ‘No, don’t do it!’ Yorgos was like, ‘Are you sure that’s what you want to do?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ I chose to do it. I was like, this makes sense to me.”