"Maybe I am British!?" Cruella's Emma Stone and Emma Thompson on accents, selfies and *that* laugh.

How am I ever? What was your name? Cruella. Emma, and I'm going to say Emily. How are we doing this today? Can I say Emily? Are we close enough for that? Golly, yes, I would love it. Ace. OK, Emma, here's a question for you. Would you feel comfortable calling Emily, at this point, an honorary Brit? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You look vaguely familiar. I look stunning. I don't know about familiar, darling. No, I'm going to give her my Damehood. I'm going to give her the badge. Actually, there's two badges. I could give her half the badge. And she could be the dark, and I could be the mean. It works. I'll check it out with HRH, but I'm sure she'll be fine with it. I'm glad we've come to this conclusion today, because I had a whole bunch of evidence here. We've got the whole Cruella accent full stop, right? Your hair, is it real? Like my ball? I like to make an impact. Right. There's smashing the word schedule. Don't think I didn't notice. We've got all of the favourite, right? That was you, Aysa, on the horse. I'm a servant. Where would I get a horse? Perhaps you dreamt of me. And finally, massive Spice Girls fan. Right. There is that. Yeah. Don't forget the moment where you say in this movie, oh, farts. Oh, farts. And also, I will say, in life, I've now adopted, instead of screwed over, I do say, budge up. Oh! You know? I don't mean to brag, but I use it in daily life. That's, I mean, I can't believe you brought it up so casually. Well, maybe I am, Bruce. No warning. That's foolish. Unhinged. Well, you're fired. Why are you speaking? I think you've nicked me. Now, you guys are both super professionals, obviously, but were there moments shooting this movie where you might have cracked up just a tiny bit on camera? Maybe when you're riding on the side of a bin lorry with a massive trash, I mean garbage, I mean rubbish, dress. When it comes to breaking character, I'm extremely unprofessional. I do laugh almost all the time, and I've gotten in legitimate trouble for it before, because I can't keep a straight face. Emma throwing her fork and her cloth napkin out of the window when we're sitting in the car made me laugh every time, but I didn't get in trouble. Okay. I didn't get in trouble on this one. The thing is, I was born brilliant, born fat, and a little bit mad. Speaking of laughter, Emily, what's the trick to a good Cruella laugh? Because it is iconic. Oh, it was a lot of listening to Tallulah Behncant and trying to make that laugh. Because the animated Cruella was based on Tallulah Behncant's voice, so I watched a lot of Tallulah Behncant. Sweet, simple Anita. I know, I know. This horrid little house is your dream castle. I noticed you do a similar driving move to the cartoon. Yes. As well. Lots of that. Yeah, you gotta keep it, you gotta keep sometimes. Okay, now you can go to drive. Emma, tell me, was there an element of this being your biggest acting challenge ever? Because you two have got to get on like a house on fire, but on camera, you've got to hate each other. Yes, it was very hard. You have the talent. Whether you have the killer instinct is the big question. It was very hard. I had to go into a darkened room and think evil thoughts for hours on end before I even thought about beginning to approach Stone with anything even remotely, a remotely resembling resentment or a dark thought of any kind. Yes, it was very hard. In fact, Craig Gillespie, the director, had to prevent me on many occasions from flinging my arms around her and crushing her to my bosom at every available opportunity because I love her so much. So yes, it was perhaps the biggest acting challenge I've ever, ever, ever had. And I salute you for it. I've got to say, Emily, was there a moment early on where you spent maybe two or three days taking selfies of yourself? I did it in every single costume. And you designed this? You did, actually. 1965 collection. Oh, no wonder I love it. It's mine. And I'm not even a person that does that that often. I actually think it's pretty disgusting. Like, not for me. I'm not on social media. I don't understand it. When I see people with a lot of selfies, it makes me mad and scared. But I did it a lot because it was the genius of Nadia Stacy doing the hair and makeup, Jenny Bevan with these costumes. It almost felt like it wasn't taking a selfie of myself, but of their work and what they had done. And like, I needed evidence of it in some way. It was so cool. So I'm very justified in taking selfies. I did think the moment where you're standing on top of a car, Emma's inside, and the whole train is covering her. That's an immediate photo moment, immediately. It's pretty great. I know. It was really hard to capture all of you, wasn't it? When you were standing on the car, holding the camera up. You couldn't get the whole thing in, could you? And it was really difficult. Any selfie, you needed one of those stick things that they sell on bridges. Yeah. It's just so hard. You suffer for your art. I'll leave you with this. We've talked before, Emily, about the desire to break the fourth wall and look at the camera. This feels like one of those movies that really wants you to do that. That's the past. I'm Cruella. Could you talk to me a bit about the tone and how close you got to that sort of thing? Well, the great thing about the way Craig Gillespie shoots, although it is a little bit odd because it's within scenes, you do look at a piece of tape on the matte box of the camera, and that's why it looks like the characters are basically looking straight down the lens. So there was, I almost felt like I got to do it. And what he's talking about is that in almost every movie, I want to break the fourth wall and start talking to the audience. Let me just begin by saying that there are two sides to every story, and this is my side. I think that every movie should be Ferris Bueller. And that we should turn and wink and explain what's going on with the audience. But you know, you don't really get to do it very often. Look, I don't want to give you notes, but Pride and Prejudice would have been that much better. Like this. Sense of sensibility. Nevermind. I want to go jump off a bridge now and get myself a selfie stick. I'll see you there, it's fine. I'll stop you. I'll prevent you and we'll go and have a drink. I love it. I love you. Goodbye, Emma. Goodbye, Emily. All right, we should put on some music or something. Lighten the mood. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to subscribe and click the bell icon to keep up to date. You can listen to my Radio 1 movies and TV podcast, Screen Time, on BBC Sounds. And you can find these interviews in full on BBC iPlayer by searching Movies with Ali Plum.