Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

Emma Stone is addressing the backlash over the graphic sex scenes in her latest film, Poor Things.

In the comedy fantasy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma plays Bella Baxter, a Victorian-era London woman who is resurrected from the dead by a scientist who swaps out her brain with that of a baby.

Bella then hooks up with a dissolute lawyer, with whom she becomes sexually liberated.

In a new interview with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row this week, the Oscar winner defended the film’s risqué moments, which include masturbation visuals, after host Samira Ahmed called the scenes “quite graphic” and “unusual” to see “these days in Hollywood”.

“[Sex] is obviously a huge part of her experience and her growth, as it is, I think, for most people in life. But I see it as just one aspect of many: her discovery of food, philosophy, travel and dance. Sex is another aspect,” Emma said of her character.

She added: “One of the things that we had talked about from very early on, and I thought was........

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