Emma Stone Finds Relief in Grim Greek Silent Movie

Emma Stone attends a press conference after the screening of her new short film "Bleat" (or "Vlihi" in Greek) of the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos at the Greek National Opera in Athens, Greece, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP)

For Emma Stone, acting in “Bleat,” a Greek silent movie with surreal and disturbing scenes of death, and resurrection, was a professional challenge and a relief. Playing a young widow in the 30-minute, black-and-white film, Stone said she welcomed rejoining Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos for the limited-release project set on the Greek island of Tinos and featuring goats roaming its rock-and-thorn landscape.

“What I like about Yorgos would take me a very long time to answer,” Stone said Thursday after a screening for the news media in Athens, and on the eve of the premiere at the Greek National Opera.