Emma Stone Achieved the Biggest Goal of Her Life When She Was Only 21-Years-Old
Emma Stone has already become King Midas because whatever she touches becomes gold, be it a movie or a TV show. The American actor has been applauded for her performance in Poor Things. The fantasy drama has been nominated under 11 categories for the 2024 Academy Awards. The La La Land actor is competing against talented actors like Carey Mulligan, Sandra Huller, and Lily Gladstone in the lead actress category.
Not many people know that the renowned actor had a dream of hosting a widely watched comedy show during her initial days in Hollywood.
Emma Stone’s Ex-Boyfriend Kieran Culkin Talks About Her Biggest Goal When She Was Just 21
Emma Stone dated the Succession star Kieran Culkin back in 2010. The ex-couple met each other during the filming of the 2009 comedy-drama Paper Man. After being together for a year, the actor couple broke up in 2011. During a recent interview with the reputed media outlet Rolling Stone, Kieran Culkin spoke about his award-winning performance in Succession and even his ex-girlfriend Emma Stone. While talking about his upcoming project A Real Pain, which is produced by Emma Stone, the actor spoke about her biggest life goal in life when she was just 21. The Igby Goes Down actor recalled-
“I met her when the rocket took off. I was right at the beginning of the huge launch; I got to watch all that firsthand. And I remember at the time that I was a little more aware of the direction she was going than she was. She would be like, “Oh my god! I just got this opportunity…” And I’d be like, “Yeah, but of course you did! Everyone loves you and you’re great.”
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He further shared-
“I remember her letting out a blood-curdling scream on the phone and I came running over thinking somebody had died, and she’s weeping, and I’m rubbing her back thinking I have to get a Scotch ready for her or something, and she was like, “I’ve just been asked to host SNL!” And I gave her the biggest fuckin’ hug. It was so great to be a part of that moment because that was her life goal, to host SNL, and she achieved it at 21. She didn’t think she was in that field and I was like, “Of course you are!”
The actors still remain great friends. According to Kieran Culkin, he was very well aware of Emma’s talented side as an actor.
Emma Stone Confessed Playing Bella Baxter In Poor Things Was Very Challenging
Emma Stone’s Poor Things went on to become the second highest-nominated movie followed by Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus project Oppenheimer. During an interview with Vanity Fair in December 2023, the Spider-Man actor spoke about the character of Bella Baxter. The actor even revealed that it was one of the most challenging roles she has ever played. While talking about the toughest part of playing Bella Baxter, Emma Stone said-
“Any character that you play, like any person, has a history to them and has things that have happened in their lives that shape who they are, and because she didn’t have any of that, it was really freeing to just play around and experiment with someone of that young mental age that she is in the very beginning. We never ascribed an actual age—there were never any numbers associated with where her brain was at any given time—but it was really freeing to just come up with what would happen if you had that brain inside of an adult body.”
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She further added-
“We had about five stages that we would work through and that we would use as reference points when we were working on her walk or the way her language develops.So the very beginning was really freeing but also the scariest part for me, or the hardest part for me, because the jumping-off point describes how the rest of this is going to go as she develops. And we shot that first. So, after many years of thinking about things or trying things out to actually be doing, the first couple of days were really, really challenging.”
Emma Stone received both Golden Globes and the Critic’s Choice Awards for her terrific performance in Poor Things. The plot of the critically acclaimed project revolves around the protagonist Bella, a childlike woman who has been brought to life by her scientist father played by Willem Dafoe. Bella’s journey starts when she runs away with a lawyer Duncan Wedderburn, played by Mark Ruffalo.
