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Emma Stone Gears Up To Break Out With ‘Easy A’

Angelic — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:47 +0000

She may be 21, but Emma Stone is quickly becoming Hollywood’s teen movie queen, making the high school boys swoon in “Superbad,” and crushing out on a young Matthew McConnaughey in “Ghost of Girlfriends Past.” In her newest film, “Easy A” (out September 17), she could be poised to breakout as a box office superstar.

“It’s kind of amazing,” she told ASOS magazine about starring in the film, “but then again, being on the cusp of something is like being on the edge of a cliff. You don’t know what’s below.”

In “Easy A,” Emma plays Olive, a high school student who fakes a sexual liaison with fellow student Brandon (played by “Cougar Town’s” Dan Byrd), only to find herself with a reputation for being a bad girl. The pressure of the starring role though, is something Emma told the mag she puts on herself.

“There is an immense amount of pressure, which doesn’t come from anybody but myself. But if you don’t make peace with the not knowing, then you will be miserable,” she said.

It appears that Emma is taking pressure off herself in other ways. The redhead told the mag she doesn’t wear uncomfortable footwear.

“I stopped wearing heels… you just can’t walk in them,” she said.

The lack of heels will probably help out when she’s in New York City, a place she told the mag she adores.

“What do I love about New York? What don’t I love?” she said. “It’s a true cultural hub, people from every place on earth have gathered here. You walk to different parts of the city and you feel you’re walking into a different world. Coming from Arizona, where it’s golf courses and spas, it’s interesting to watch such a vibrant, real city.”

Source: Access Hollywood

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Stone sets sights on stardom

Angelic — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:42:29 +0000

Plenty of teenagers daydream of dropping out of school and bolting to Hollywood. But how many follow through with a PowerPoint presentation for their parents?

Emma Stone laughs throatily at the memory, recalling when — during her freshman year of high school — she conspired to convince her mother and father she should move from Arizona to Los Angeles to become an actress.

“My dad is a businessman, so I think I grew up thinking presentations were a good way to get your point across instead of just sitting down and having a conversation,” she says. “I’m also really emotional so if I feel very strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion, so I knew sitting down and going, ‘I’ve got to move! I’ve got to move!’ wasn’t going to be a good approach. So I did it in a more business-y way. But I cried the whole time.”
Whether because of the PowerPoint presentation or the tears, Stone’s parents agreed to let their daughter move to Los Angeles (accompanied by her mother).

“I always loved acting and sketch comedy and improv and theatre, which I did, at a local youth theatre,” Stone says. “But the actual moment about moving to L.A. was a little like Howard Beale in Network — like when he wakes up ‘Why me?’ I had a moment like that in the middle of class and was like, ‘Got to move.’ And then I made the presentation that night and moved two months later. It was weird.”

She quickly began to land work — including a role on the short-lived TV series Drive in 2007. From there, she segued into films. Her big-screen credits include Superbad, The House Bunny, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and last year’s sleeper hit Zombieland.

“I’ve only been doing this for three long years,” she says. “I’m such an old woman.”

“She’s going to be a huge star,” predicts Will Gluck, who directs her in Easy A.

Opening everywhere Sept. 17 after it premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, the smartly sarcastic comedy stars Stone as a virgin who, tired of going unnoticed, starts a rumour that she’s wildly promiscuous. Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson and Lisa Kudrow co-star. It’s Stone’s first lead role — a breakthrough for the now-21-year-old.

“(The pressure) was less about the size of the role than doing the role itself justice. Yeah, that was my concern throughout the whole thing. The size of it you can’t think about too much or else you go crazy. And by you, I mean me.”

Female-led comedies, she realizes, are rarities. “You feel like you’ve struck gold when you read a comedy part for a female, it’s such a rare thing, which is horribly sad.”

For that reason, Easy A attracted nearly every actress from the age of 18 to 30, Gluck says. But he adds Stone — thanks to an audition tape she submitted via webcam, which he insisted all contenders do — easily won the gig.

Of course, as her celebrity grows, so will, presumably, the gossip about her. Stone knows it’s not a reach to suggest she may find herself under the same intrusive, fact-deficient microscope her character does.

“We’ve seen it not just with actors, but politicians and sports figures, where you feel you know them so well — ‘How could they mess up?’ and it becomes such a story and rumours spiral out of control. But nowadays I’d rather have rumours than the truth. Know what I mean? Wouldn’t you feel safer with rumours than the truth and people knowing all the truth about your life?”

But that’s not the reason, she adds, why you won’t find her on Facebook or Twitter.

“I can’t get too involved. Since I was a kid, I thought I wanted to be a website designer. In my day, there weren’t blogs or social networks; it was all e-zines and drop-down menus so it’s been fascinating to watch the progression of social networking. I have an addictive personality and can’t use it — any of it. Because if I have a Twitter or Facebook, that’s all I will do. So I don’t. But I completely appreciate it.”

Almost as fast as how technology changes? How quickly Hollywood careers come and go, she acknowledges.

“Movies were being made all the time in other generations, but you look back at actresses like my favourite, Diane Keaton, and you look at her track record and it’s 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978 — there’s more space between each thing. Whereas next year I have three movies coming out.

“I know I need to appreciate it right now because it’s a very fleeting changing thing, nowadays with the now, now, nowness of everything. They like to latch on and it’s like ‘Come on, come on, come on — let’s go’ and then it’s to the next person, ‘Come on, come on, come on — let’s go!’ So I know that’s the way it is. I have to try to navigate it and have that not be the case because I’d really like to do this for a while.”

Source: Toronto Sun

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Bieber Who? Emma Stone will be latest star to take over ‘Funny or Die’

Angelic — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:18:33 +0000

On April Fool’s Day, tween star Justin Bieber “took over” the Funny or Die website, appearing in several skits, poking fun at his image and spoofing popular YouTube videos with bits such as “Bieber Goes to the Dentist.”

Now months later, Bieber Fever has begun to wear off. So who will be the next star to dominate the comedic website?

“Easy A” actress Emma Stone, who says she’ll soon film some sketches for the site.

“We’re doing a Funny or Die thing; I think I’m taking over the website. I’m flipped out,” the 21-year-old gushed during an interview this week in Beverly Hills while promoting her upcoming comedy, out Sept. 17.

Stone — who has had supporting roles in smaller comedies such as “The House Bunny,” “The Rocker” and “Superbad” — finally gets the chance to show off her funny girl chops with “Easy A.” She stars as a brassy teenager who mistakenly becomes known for her sexual prowess.

Asked how similar her Funny or Die stint will be to the Bieber takeover, Stone said, “I’m not sure if we’re doing the exact same thing, but I know there’s a live stream interview and I’m taking over the Twitter. We are filming some stuff, but I’m not sure what,” said the actress, who has now returned to Mississippi, where she’s in the middle of a four-month shoot for the DreamWorks drama ”The Help.”

On Thursday, she said, she was supposed to have a day off from promoting “Easy A” and shooting the new film — until the Funny or Die crew decided to head to the South to film with her.

Source: LA Times

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Emma Stone & “Zombieland” Are Nominated at 2010 Spike Scream Awards

Angelic — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:34:00 +0000

Emma Stone & “Zombieland” have scored numerous nominations at 2010 Spike Scream Awards. You can vote for Emma & “Zombieland” here. The show will air October 19th, 9:00–11:00 PM!

ZombieLand – Best Horror Movie)
ZombieLand – Best ScreenPlay)
Emma Stone – Best Horror Actress)
Zombieland – Best Ensemble)
Zombieland – Best F/X)

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Yahoo: The 10 Breakout Female Stars of 2010

Angelic — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:44:38 +0000

EMMA STONE
Age: 21
Apparently, you really can start an acting career by appearing on a reality show. Emma (or Emily, as she went by then) appeared on VH1′s “In Search of the New Partridge Family” at age 15 and won a role in the sitcom remake. They only made one episode, but it did lead to more roles on TV. “Superbad” was her introduction to the movies, and she followed it with more hit comedies like “The House Bunny” and “Zombieland.” Coming soon is “Easy A,” where she has the lead role as a high schooler who tells a few white lies and gets branded with a bad reputation. Next year she’ll take a dramatic turn in the movie version of the bestselling novel “The Help.”

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‘Easy A’ Director Will Gluck Talks About Emma Stone

Angelic — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:55:54 +0000

The upcoming Emma Stone vehicle Easy A is all about how one simple thing can change your reputation overnight, so what will the highly anticipated high school comedy do for director Will Gluck? In advance of the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere, Movieline talked to Gluck about his postmodern approach to comedy, his next movie Friends with Benefits (which is competing against two other projects that want to use that title), and the asthma attack-inducing power of the female orgasm.

You say that it’s a movie with no sex, but it does have Emma Stone faking an orgasm.
Oh no, she wasn’t faking an orgasm! You misconstrued that. She was having a sneeze attack. [Laughs]

She’s only gotten more popular since you made the movie, but did you have any trouble casting her over some familiar face from the CW?
No, because one good thing about Sony is that they knew that this was kind of a special movie — a weird kind of movie, but weird in a good way. They never pushed anyone on us, and you’ve seen how good the cast is that we got for this movie, so they were very supportive about casting all the best people. The way I auditioned the [lead] role is that I had all the actresses come in, but then I had them all go home and do any page from the script into their webcam and sent it to me. Em went home that night and emailed it to me, and I walked over to the head of the studio with my laptop and said, “This is our girl”… If I were to put money on anyone, Emma Stone is going to be a gigantic star. She’s the best actress and the best person I’ve ever worked with.

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‘Easy A’ EXCLUSIVE Clip: Emma Stone Embraces Her New Skanky Reputation

Angelic — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:01:58 +0000

After a very lackluster summer blockbuster season (let’s face it, “Inception” really was no “The Dark Knight”), we’re really looking forward to the fall and winter movies. We have to wait until October for “The Social Network” and November for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but fortunately we only need to wait until September 17 for the upcoming Emma Stone’s comedy, “Easy A.”

To make waiting time a little easier, here’s an exclusive clip from the film. You just might fall in love with the entire film (and Emma all over again) based on this two-minute sneak, because we most certainly did.

In case you need a refresher on the plot, Emma plays Olive Penderghast (hence the “I love” comment) whose little white lie about how she lost her virginity hit the rumor mill at her high school. Since she’s reading “The Scarlet Letter” in school, she finds her life paralleling Hester Prynne’s, so she sews on that red ‘A’ and embraces her new bad reputation to advance socially and financially.

Emma totally rocks her performance from what we’ve seen in the clip. We already thought she was great from “Superbad” and “Zombieland,” but this is her first chance to fly solo on a project, and she really made “Easy A” her own. That whole conversation at the end between her and her ex-friend, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka), made us laugh out loud.

But fortunately, Emma doesn’t have to do it alone. We saw Stanley Tucci in the clip as Olive’s father, Dill, and found him to be hilarious. He’s a talented actor to begin with, but we love him in comedies. Plus, “Easy A” also stars Cam Gigandet, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Lisa Kudrow and, yes, Malcom McDowell. Can this film do any wrong?

Source: MTV

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Emma Stone: Win ‘The Help’ Set Visit!

Angelic — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:16:53 +0000

Emma Stone has taken on the lead role in the upcoming The Help and now is searching for five fans who’ve lended a hand themselves.

Dreamworks has teamed up with http://the-help-ivillage-community.fotobabble.com/register/indexiVillage to provide fans with the chance to visit the set of the movie and meet the all star cast. How do you enter? Easy!

All you have to do is Upload a photo that you have taken, which embodies the theme of your recording or statement and in a short paragraph, answer this question: How did ‘THE HELP’ inspire you?

ENTER TO WIN!

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, The Help stars Emma as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives—and a small Mississippi town—upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.

FOLLOW @HelpCommunity on Twitter.

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Emma Stone Among New VMA Presenters

Angelic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:36:54 +0000

As the annual MTV Video Music Awards approaches, some of this year’s presenters and performers have been announced.

Some of our favorite stars set to present include Selena Gomez, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ne-Yo and Nicki Minaj.

The performers are Kanye West (hopefully he can redeem himself from last year’s microphone stealing incident) along with Florence and the Machine and Drake.

The show will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on September 12 at 9pm ET.

Source: Celebrity Gossip

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GQ on Emma Stone: Funny Girl

Angelic — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:15:50 +0000

There are plenty of reasons to develop a crippling crush on Emma Stone. At the age of 21, she has partied with the cast of SNL, taken a Jonah Hill head butt in Superbad, and been taught the secret of the perfect margarita by Bill Murray. She lives in New York, works out of the Sunset Tower Hotel in L.A., and also happens to be stunning as a blonde—her natural color—or a redhead.

One could go on. But then she starts talking, and it gets worse. As she explains how she used PowerPoint to persuade her parents to let her go to Hollywood when she was only 15 (“I’d have been like, ‘Shut up, you little monster!’”) and recounts her educational experience (“I say, ‘Homeschooled,’ cross myself, and watch people freak”), you remember why you fell for the Zombieland star in the first place.

If there’s any justice, the world will follow when the teen comedy Easy A hits theaters this fall. Playing a nerd who pretends to sleep with geeks for money (and gets in too deep) proved what casting agents have suspected for a long time: The girl can hold a movie. “The business latches onto someone and puts ‘em in everything until they burn out,” she says. “My plan is to just keep working till they tell me to stop…and then beg SNL to let me join the cast.”

Source: GQ

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