'The Favourite' Stirs Up Oscar Season

THR cover: #TheFavourite blows up gender politics with the year's most outrageous love triangle http://thr.cm/0lEZLv pic.twitter.com/jMitOm7eQA

This ain't your mother's costume drama. #TheFavourite's Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman preside over a royal spectacle of cunning ladies and dandied-up men: "We're disgusting and gorgeous and powerful and weak and filthy and brilliant" http://thr.cm/1OZ2ay pic.twitter.com/GxO2py8XGf

It ain’t your mother’s costume drama: This week’s @THR cover is the women of The Favourite, by far the best royal lesbian love triangle power struggle dramedy in the Oscar race. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/favourite-blows-up-metoo-gender-politics-love-triangle-1160665 …pic.twitter.com/C1oNwGlTtT

Olivia Colman was Yorgos Lanthimos' first and only choice to play Queen Anne in #TheFavourite: "For me, casting is very instinctive. It's one of those things when you feel you're right and you need to insist no matter what" http://thr.cm/nBVniD pic.twitter.com/bFWHWPR6de

By the time Emma Stone finished #TheFavourite script, she was "begging" for the part. Yorgos Lanthimos told her she could audition but only after she had worked with an accent coach for at least a month http://thr.cm/J5wKsO pic.twitter.com/AhcW1EVTM7

Rachel Weisz: "What's interesting to me is that the men in #TheFavourite are wearing lots of makeup and blusher and lipstick and high heels. That they're peripheral characters who are slightly ridiculous. They're an afterthought" http://thr.cm/wCA6Fj pic.twitter.com/j3KkhCfDxe

Director Yorgos Lanthimos on #TheFavourite's three main characters: "These three women possessed power that affected the lives of millions — but it was an intimate story as well" http://thr.cm/p9ybPf pic.twitter.com/0t6HEUCA3Z

Emma Stone: "God forbid you say the wrong thing … or you make a mistake because, yeah, you might be growing and learning, but you are a woman. So don't f— up or you're out." http://thr.cm/M1miYo pic.twitter.com/m2cosgsaK2

Olivia Colman was initially reluctant to take on the role of Queen for the third time: "The main difference" in #TheFavourite is that "the other queens didn't get to fall in love with two hot women" http://thr.cm/eEeNfp pic.twitter.com/2MiIKmcM4I

On the cover: #TheFavourite's Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone http://thr.cm/IIu7XY pic.twitter.com/pf0HxMeYVY

Could a film about females being awful to one another be considered a setback? #TheFavourite's Olivia Colman: "How can it set women back to prove that women fart and vomit and hate and love and do all the things men do?" http://thr.cm/6fqKmW pic.twitter.com/sd0XGyADXw

Emma Stone wasn't originally sold on #TheFavourite: "I was like, 'Oh, Abigail's just going to be this sweet kind of girl, the victim, a servant to these people.' But as I read more, it unfolded, it became All About Eve" http://thr.cm/1LHs2b pic.twitter.com/somTK8SZ07