Emma Stone has never shied away from a movie role transformation, but her latest one came with a motherly pep talk.

Stone, 36, said she had a chat with her 4-year-old daughter, Louise Jean, so she didn’t shock her upon coming home with a completely shaven head while filming the comedy/sci-fi movie Bugonia, as reported by USA Today on Wednesday, October 23.

The actress portrays Michelle Fuller, a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO that is abducted by conspiracy theorists who are convinced she is an alien determined to destroy Earth, in the film. In order to stop her from fulfilling her master plan — or so they believe — they shave her head to block her ability to get in contact with her mothership.

The star said she wanted her child to be “very ready” to see her bald “so it’s not super-scar

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