Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Unpack Bugonia’s Disgusting Ending Everyone’s Talking About

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons have been out talking about the ending of Bugonia, and based on the early chatter, viewers are split hard down the middle. It is one of those finales that invites two totally different reads, which is probably the point, and also why everyone keeps arguing about it.

The quick version of what this movie is doing

Stone plays Michelle Fuller, a very high-powered CEO who gets snatched by Plemons' character, Teddy, a true-believer conspiracy guy. He drags her to his basement, accuses her of being an alien plotting humanity's doom, and things get ugly fast. As the story escalates, Michelle finally tells him she actually is an alien empress from the Andromeda Galaxy. She backs up some of his guesses, but insists he has the big picture wrong. Her claim is wild: her Andromedan people created humans. From there, the movie leans into whether she is spinning a story to survive or laying out the real truth.

So about that ending

Teddy demands proof: take me to the mothership. Michelle says there is a way, and points to a closet in her office that doubles as a portal. That kicks off the final stretch, which is gnarly, extremely graphic, and very much designed to send you out arguing on the sidewalk afterward.

"I'm being really serious. It was unbelievable. But stepping into that closet was really disgusting."

That is Stone, describing the blood-soaked finale and the literal act of walking into the closet, which apparently was as gross to shoot as it looks on screen.

What the actors are saying

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Plemons unpacked how Teddy can sound convincing one minute and totally off the rails the next. For him, that contradiction is the point.

"It felt very, very close to the very myopic ways in which a lot of us can go through life, where there is very little room for multiple ways of thinking or for multiple things to be true at once. We get this tunnel vision."

In other words: Teddy hits on bits of reality, then drives them straight into a wall because he only sees what supports his obsession.

Why people are split

• Team She Is What She Says: You take Michelle at her word — alien empress, portal closet, humans as an Andromedan project — and Teddy stumbled into a truth he never fully understands.
• Team She Is Playing Him: You read the confession and everything that follows as a survival tactic — a story built to exploit Teddy's paranoia, with the movie keeping you guessing right up to that messy final beat.

Either way, the ending is designed to be argued over, and both leads seem pretty happy to let you live in that uncertainty while they talk about just how nasty it was to make. If you like your sci-fi thrillers with a side of mind games and a whole lot of blood, Bugonia swings for the fences in the last reel.