Emma Stone was surprised she was cast in ‘The Help’.

The ‘Easy A’ actress portrays journalist Eugenia Phelan in the Tate Taylor-directed drama about a young white woman who befriends two black maids during the 1960s Civil Rights campaign in the US, and she admits she was shocked to have been offered the leading part.

She said: “The job came in and I was like, ‘I’ve got to do this.’ I didn’t think they’d actually take a chance on me. I never think that.

“It’s so exciting when it happens and I’m never ready and I’m never prepared and I can’t ever play it – but I try. But the thing is, it didn’t feel any different than doing a comedy. I credit a lot of that to Tate Taylor, the director. He was always having fun and being goofy.”

The 22-year-old star particularly enjoyed shooting the film in the summer of 2010 because it felt like a “camp”.

She joked to Empire magazine: “We had a great summer. It was like we made a movie while we were at camp. In the middle of Mississippi having block parties and riding bikes to each other’s houses. It was the best possible experience to delve into someone else.”

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

May the force be with you … to fight cancer! That’s the message of Stand Up To Cancer‘s newest T-shirts, a Star Wars-themed collection just launched to celebrate the Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

Celebrities like Emma Stone (above), Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari and more recently joined Star Wars alumnus Samuel L. Jackson to recreate classic scenes from the films while wearing the shirts, all to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.

The exclusive T-shirts ($25) are available for purchase now through the end of the year, and all proceeds will benefit Stand Up To Cancer. In addition, you can visit eBay.com/usetheforceforgood and check out cool Star Wars memorabilia currently available in an auction to raise funds for the organization, too.

Stand Up To Cancer launched in 2008 as a celebrity-studded international telethon, which included a touching appearance by Patrick Swayze. That night alone, the organization made more than $100 million. The telecast returned in 2010, this time airing on television and online, earning $80 million.

Source: People

EMMA Stone insists she’s no no Pretty Woman.

The Easy A and Spiderman star is the hottest young actress in Hollywood right now with some dubbing the 22-year-old as the new Julia Roberts. But Emma is having none of it.

“Julia Roberts is still around so that’s horrible thing to say,” insists Emma.

“Julia Roberts is the new Julia Roberts. She’s awesome. That’s really flattering but I think people who say these things are nuts.”

Emma recently revealed she is over her crush on Leonardo DiCaprio after finally meeting him.

“I had a huge crush on Leonardo DiCaprio in his Titanic and Romeo + Juliet time,” she said.

“I really thought it was so cool. Then as time goes on and you get a little closer to those people or you meet those people, you go, ‘Oh everyone is completely normal all the time and every human being is exactly alike.’ Now, everything feels different.”

Source: Showbiz Spy

Actresses Emma Stone and Olivia Wilde have been awarded leading animal rights honours for helping to highlight cruelty-free cosmetics.

The effort of the actresses has stood out after they worked towards their recent association with cosmetics firm Revlon. They have been bestowed with Kind Choices Awards by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). “Emma, Olivia, and Revlon have our thanks for encouraging millions of fashion-forward young women to choose make-up that’s luxurious, not lethal. Cruelty-free companies such as Revlon make it easy for all of us to get a glamorous look without harming a hair on a bunny’s head,” contactmusic.com quoted Kathy Guillermo, vice president of laboratory investigations PETA.

Source: Times Of India

They share the same red hair, the same husky voice, the same freckled complexion—but only one of them is a movie star.

Emma Stone has essentially landed the career that Lindsay Lohan was supposed to have, back when she was a rising Disney star. “Well…you could say I’m cheating,” Emma Stone recently told Australia’s Herald Sun, when asked about her Lohan-like locks. “I’m the false one. She’s the real redhead.”

At least Stone, 22, is in on the joke. Last fall, she was a relatively unknown actress peddling Easy A, a movie that was a remake of The Scarlet Letter with a dash ofMean Girls. When Stone hosted Saturday Night Live, one of her first skits was a fictional episode of The View, where she impersonated Lohan. What dramatic decisions did Stone bring to the role? Other than biting her fingernails, Emma Stone as Lindsay looked exactly like the real Emma Stone. She didn’t even need to change the tenor of her voice.

But as Lindsay’s career has flailed from a string of scandals that include drugs, booze, and shoplifting, Stone’s squeaky-clean demeanor has propped her up as a natural replacement. After an awards show in January, MTV asked: “Was it just us, or did…[Stone] look a lot like Lindsay Lohan, circa 2005?” A blog post from BlackBook.com’s Ben Barna took the parallels even further: “Come to think of it, Emma Stone isn’t so much the Lindsay Lohan that could have been—she’s the Lindsay Lohan that was.”

As likeable as Stone is onscreen, it’s not necessarily her acting that has everyone—including Jim Carrey—buzzing. In Crazy, Stupid, Love, Stone was a fine romantic comedy player, but still eclipsed by Ryan Gosling’s abs. The Helpwas a dramatic vehicle for standouts Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. AndEasy A was an exercise in Stone channeling her Lindsayness, before we knew she had the potential to overthrow the teen sweetheart.

Which brings up an even bigger question: Is all the Emma Stone hype because we secretly miss Lindsay Lohan?

It’s hard to remember now, but Lohan was one of the great child actresses of Hollywood. In 1998’s remake of The Parent Trap, she was as adept as Hayley Mills was at playing twin girls trying to reunite their divorced parents. In 2003’s remake of Freaky Friday, film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Lohan “has that Jodie Foster sort of seriousness and intent focus beneath her teenage persona.” And then there was 2004’s Mean Girls, exalted as her generation’sClueless, propelling Lohan into full-fledged star, someone teenage girls wanted to be and teenage boys wanted to be with.

After fame, Lindsay spiraled into the purgatory of lunacy reserved for teenage starlets. Lindsay never shaved her head like Britney Spears did, but the paparazzi chronicled her every inebriated move outside the L.A. club scene. She was arrested twice for DUIs in 2007 and booked herself into rehab three times (this, by the way, is according to her official biography on TMZ). This year, she was charged with grand theft, after she was accused of snatching a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store.

“You have acted like a spoiled child, and in doing so have alienated many of your co-workers and endangered the quality of this picture,” wrote James G. Robinson, the CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, in a letter he sent to Lohan when she wasn’t showing up for work on Georgia Rule. She drifted into some TV, with a recurring part on Ugly Betty. And now, not even Steven Soderbergh will hire Lohan for a supporting role in his upcoming movie about male strippers. “He didn’t want to deal with all that,” a source told E! News.

It’s not that we’ve lost our fascination with Lohan—she still has 2.4 million Twitter followers. It’s that the tweens who grew up idolizing her can no longer relate to her (or any of the other bad girls from the Paris Hilton generation). That’s where Stone holds the advantage. She can project all the qualities we liked about Lindsay, without any of the baggage.

There are, of course, a few noticeable differences between the two actresses. Lindsay, who is only (can you believe it?) 25, found fame at 12. Stone, now 22, had an entire life of privacy before Easy A. Lindsay had Dina and Michael Lohan, stage parents who clung to their daughter for fame. Stone grew up in a more functional household in Scottsdale, Ariz. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Stone says, “I have some of the coolest parents in the world. My dad’s whole philosophy, my mom’s too, is start with the reins out, and if you do something that should break the trust, then the reins come in.” She adds that, like Pinnochio, “it really is incredibly hard for me to lie.”

And yet, isn’t that what acting is all about? In her best films—Mean Girlsespecially—there is a fierceness in a Lindsay Lohan performance, a desperation, a vulnerability, all the qualities of a great, accomplished performer. When I see Emma Stone on the big screen, crinkling her nose and flashing her smile, my mind can’t help but think…she’s a little bland. If Stone wants to emerge as a leading lady for the ages—something that her next performance inThe Amazing Spider-Man probably won’t determine—she’s going to need to take bigger risks. She’s going to need to feel less safe. She has to discover her own inner Lindsay.

“There’s going to be another 22-year-old redhead on my heels,” Stone told theHerald Sun. “It’s inevitable, and there’s nothing I can do about it.” But if Mean Girls taught us anything, it’s that you at least have to put up a fight.

Source: The Daily Beast

Emma Stone is a Taylor Swift fan!

The Help starlet was at the “Fearless” singer’s concert the other night in Los Angeles. She and some friends had front-row seats not far from Kris Jenner, daughters Kendall and Kylie and son Rob Kardashian.

At one point, Swift went into the audience, where “she hugged the Jenner girls, Kris, and Rob,” a fellow concertgoer tells us. “When she hugged Emma, it lasted a bit longer and they kind of rocked back and forth.”

Guess who was also in L.A. the very same night? Stone’s maybe boyfriend Andrew Garfield…at a cemetery!

Source: E Online

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Emma Stone wonders if her recent success means she can “act like an a**hole”.

The 22-year-old is one of the fastest rising stars of Hollywood movies, with roles in some of this year’s biggest pictures including The Help and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

She will also star in 2012’s eagerly awaited superhero movie The Amazing Spider-Man, portraying Gwen Stacy. Emma has teased that her elevated status should allow her to act like a diva.

“Am I allowed to have an attitude now’” she laughed in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.

“Did I get permission to act like an a**hole’”

In fact, the down-to-earth star has no plans to change. Joking that she needs to “work on getting an attitude”, Emma is thrilled when people comment on how unpretentious she is.

“So, I’m going to have to work on getting an attitude — although when people say I haven’t changed, it means so much to me and my mother,” she smiled.

Emma has been romantically linked to her Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield, who plays the title character. However, both stars have been reluctant to deny or confirm the rumours.

“He’s an amazing Spider-Man and a great actor,” she beamed.

“As for the rest, you’ll have to see. I’ve probably already said too much.”

Emma also revealed it was important for her and Andrew to come up with an original embrace for the movie.

In 2002’s Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst famously shared an upside-down clinch, and Emma thinks The Amazing Spider-Man will offer just as much chemistry.

“Why would we do an upside-down kiss’ I’m not Mary Jane. I’m Gwen Stacy in the Spider-Man film,” she asserted. “New girl. New kiss. I wanted to do different kisses to make our mark.”

Source: Film News UK