Not Everybody on the All-Bald ‘Bugonia’ Screening Needed to Go Bald

Followers who attended a recent screening of the new film Bugonia acquired each excellent news and dangerous information. The excellent news? Bugonia is legitimately superior, and absolutely, they loved the wild journey. The dangerous information? They most likely may’ve left with their hair.

Earlier this week, Focus Options held a intelligent advertising and marketing screening for the brand new Yorgos Lanthimos movie, the place you bought in without spending a dime when you had been beforehand bald or prepared to go bald. The reason being that, within the movie, Jesse Plemons’ character kidnaps Emma Stone’s character and shaves her head so she will’t talk along with her alien overlords. Oh, proper, he thinks she’s an alien, which is the entire enjoyable of the film.

Focus even had a barber readily available to shave anybody prepared to clear their domes earlier than the film, and plenty of did. However not everybody.

Author Demi Adejuyigbe was among the many first to go to social media to disclose that what began as an all-bald screening shortly pivoted. “Good friend’s boyfriend is on the all-bald screening of BUGONIA and apparently shaving heads took too lengthy so that they’re passing out bald caps. Think about being the final one who needed to shave,” Adejuyigbe posted.

Common California meme account Americana at Model additionally posted in regards to the occasion and, as individuals identified, you possibly can see individuals in bald caps within the picture.

Snuck into the most well liked screening in LA… the all-bald screening of Bugonia: https://t.co/QFctMdEUnb pic.twitter.com/hY4C7aEtaV

— Americana at Model Memes (@americanamemes) October 21, 2025

So what occurred right here? Did the shaving simply take an excessive amount of time? Might individuals merely select to placed on the bald cap as an alternative of shaving? io9 reached out to representatives dealing with the movie in addition to Focus Options however didn’t get a response.

However, it appears most individuals didn’t thoughts. The Los Angeles Occasions was additionally on the occasion, and within the following video, you possibly can see that loads of shaving did, in reality, happen. And whereas the video additionally confirms the provision of bald caps, individuals nonetheless appear to be usually completely satisfied in regards to the occasion anyway.

You must suppose anybody who willingly attended the screening was able to play alongside, however, as Adejuyigbe identified, there was most likely one one who acquired their head shaved, then realized they didn’t must, and perhaps that individual didn’t really feel so nice. However, fortunately, Bugonia is superior, so a minimum of they acquired to see it without spending a dime.

Bugonia opens in restricted launch on Friday earlier than increasing on October 31. We’ll have a assessment and interview with director Yorgos Lanthimos later this week.

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