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Academy Award-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan has a zeal for the extraordinary. At the helm of Disney\u2019s new film Cruella<\/em> \u2013 the origin story of how Cruella de Vil came to be the notoriously fashionable villain we know \u2013 Beavan, a woman who doesn\u2019t do things by halves, created numerous devastatingly vampy gowns scene after scene.<\/p>\n

Set in 1970s London during the punk revolution, the incredible avant-garde creations form a character unto themselves. Emma Stone plays the titular character, a young seamstress desperate to make a name for herself in the fashion world, and who wages a sartorial war against the established designer Baroness von Hellman (played by a scene-stealing Emma Thompson). Thus, after many an event hijacking, Stone\u2019s Cruella is born.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the biggest thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d says Beavan. \u201cThe amount of looks for Emma Stone is more than I\u2019ve ever done. She had a total of 47 costume changes, and Emma Thompson had a total of 33.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Cruella\"
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One scene in particular sees Cruella march atop a silver car with the Baroness riding inside. As the paparazzi swarm around the woman determined to steal the Baroness\u2019 limelight, Stone pulls Cruella\u2019s meters-long skirt \u2013 and its cascading ruffles \u2013 across the windows of the car. It\u2019s a moment Stone herself will never forget.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to walk up onto a car and then cover an entire car with a switch of the skirt was just fantastic,\u201d says Stone in a recent global press conference. \u201cIt really is the moment where you’re like, I am in a movie right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd those are the moments that they were real, weren’t they, Em?\u201d Thompson chimes in, as Stone nods. \u201cNone of it is CGI. It’s all real. You actually walked onto the car and pulled the material around, and you did it about a million times\u2026it was hard!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Cruella\"
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Stone cited another scene in the film where Cruella pulls up to another one of the Baroness\u2019 events in a garbage truck. (Be on the look out for this scene!)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy very, very favorite outfit was absolutely ludicrous [and it] was the dress that I wear on the garbage truck, because there was a 40-foot train,\u201d says Stone. \u201c[The train] wasn’t attached to the dress, because obviously I wouldn’t be able to move anywhere, so they added that onto the dress at the last minute when I get onto the garbage truck to shoot that part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just phenomenal. It\u2019s nothing you would ever be able to even remotely wear in real life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then as the garbage truck drove off, the material became an amazing sort of snakelike thing,\u201d says Thompson. \u201cThat actually happened. It wasn’t the CGI.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Thompson, who plays the stiff-lipped Baroness, her costumes \u2013 which included a lot of corsets \u2013 weren\u2019t so comfortable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent decades playing what my mother used to call, \u2018Good women in frocks,\u2019 says Thompson. \u201cAnd now I got to play a really evil woman in frocks. But oh boy, the frocks. I mean, they wore me!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had just the best, best time,\u201d Thompson continued. \u201cEvery time Em and I would come on set, we’d just look at each other and walk around each other, like we were sculptures or works of art or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[The corsets] are not fantastically comfortable. But our wonderful tailors and designers have such a good time just pulling in the corset, tightly enough so that bits of me would squish out of the top of the costume,\u201d continued Thompson likening the experience to squeezing a tube of toothpaste. \u201cAnd then they’d squish a bit back down and then pull the corset in again. And oh my goodness, it was some kind of cookery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the fashion scenes didn\u2019t adopt CGI technology, some ones with the Dalmatians did.<\/p>\n

The dogs were very sweet. So they have CGI’d them to be a bit nasty,\u201d says Stone. \u201cThey had little crosses [on the ground], and they were sent back to their marks like little canine actors. They would just go back and stand on their marks and wait, and then get a little treat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruella <\/em>is released into cinemas and on disney+ on May 28.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n