Emma Stone Gets An Easy A On Our Pop Quiz

Emma Stone, who first captured audiences' attention with a scene-stealing appearance in 2007's "Superbad," stars in three of this summer's most anticipated movies: "Crazy, Stupid, Love," "The Help" and "Friends With Benefits" (plus, one of next summer's: "The Amazing Spider-Man"). In honor of her forthcoming films, Stone spoke with us about her pop-cultural proclivities.

What was your first record purchase?
TLC's CrazySexyCool

What's the last song you downloaded?
"I Want You," by Bob Dylan

If you had to be stranded with only one DVD, what would it be?
The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is "Help," the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

What's the first R-rated movie you saw?
"The Shawshank Redemption"

What movie character do you most relate to?
A mix between Cameron Frye and Ferris Bueller, if they had a baby -- their two personalities enmeshed.

What TV reruns do you never turn off?
"The Brady Bunch"

What was your first cultural experience?
I came from Phoenix, Arizona, which isn't really known as a multicultural hub, so, coming to New York for the first time when I was 7 and seeing live theater and just being in New York. "Les Mis" was the first play I ever saw. I was just hooked, I loved it so much.

What do you think of reality TV?
Well, I do enjoy some reality programs, like the "Real Housewives of New York City."

If you could revive one cancelled TV show, what would it be?
"Huff," on Showtime. Incredible show.

What's your musical guilty pleasure?
Miranda Cosgrove. I don't think that's a guilty pleasure, though. I think it's just great music.

What's the next movie you plan to watch?
I really want to see "Gilda," the Rita Hayworth movie. And I just downloaded "Singin' in the Rain" on iTunes.

What movie ending would you like to rewrite?
My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings. But, I wish the end of "Garden State" was different -- that he had left and we were left thinking "I'm not sure what happened here." I wish he didn't come back, and they're like "We'll figure it out." That felt a little off base.

What actor would you want to play you in a biopic?
Lauren Bacall

What was your worst cultural experience?
Being in the South and witnessing racism firsthand.

On a scale from 1 to 10 (lowbrow to highbrow) how would you
rate yourself?
A 5. There's stuff that I really like that would be considered highbrow. But for the most part it's pretty lowbrow, too.

What was the first movie you snuck out to see?
"Mars Attacks!" I was 10 and it was a PG-13 movie. "Mars Attacks!" scared the shit out of me -- I was terrified.

Comments

[Fred Taylor]

01:22 AM on 07/27/2011

"What actor would you want to play you in a biopic?
Lauren Bacall"

This girl's not too bright, is she? And neither is the interviewer. It's a really stupid question to ask of a 22 year old.

[CSKAP]

03:08 PM on 07/30/2011

Because? I know it's fun to sit in Moms basment and critisize people that are actually doing things but this doesn't even make sense.

[baileywick]

04:47 PM on 07/26/2011

"I Want You." My fav Dylan song,too.

[Godweiser]

02:50 PM on 07/26/2011

Mars Attacks! is scary?

I always did want to elect Jack Nicholson as president after he played that role though. Yes, because he played it sleazy, and yes, because I'm a cynic.

[Calvin Crabtree]

03:19 AM on 07/26/2011

I thought she was around befor super bad

[Officer Ed]

02:34 AM on 07/26/2011

Stone looks ridiculous in the first photo with the bright red clown lips painted on. Why do some women do that? Human beings do not have bright red lips. When a woman paints their lips bright red, andone seeing them just thinks "oh, there's a woman with bright red lips painted on."

[marsjunkiegirl]

07:27 AM on 07/26/2011

Umm....it's kind of a pink in the photo they have up...you might want to have your eyes checked. And red lips are sorta old hollywood- but I get it, you have personal preference. Still, lipstick is a silly thing to pick on someone for.

[tenaj813]

12:35 AM on 07/26/2011

Donn't know about anyone else, but I'm dying to see Emma as Skeeter in "The Help." Great novel - good actress!. Loved Easy A. If Emma likes Ferris Bueller and Help, she's okay in my book!

[Jason Benjamin M]

11:25 PM on 07/25/2011

I furiously masturbate to thoughts of sweet lovemaking with this bombshell.

[Officer Ed]

02:35 AM on 07/26/2011

You should write and tell her! How could she turn down such a classy guy?

[Jason Benjamin M]

11:48 PM on 07/26/2011

You must at least admire my candidness.

And I am a classy guy, for goodness sake. Who said that classy guys can't have impure thoughts? As if the first words out of my mouth during a hypothetical meeting with Emma Stome would be "You are beautiful, I pleasure myself to your pictures."

After all, class is all about the image you project, and its perception by others...


"A glass of the '98 Cote Du Rhone for the lovely lady, Sommelier."

[tatashady]

10:17 PM on 07/25/2011

From the first picture I was guessing she was hooked on make-up. :)

[joannevlavender]

12:06 AM on 07/26/2011

Or at least garish lipstick.

[Officer Ed]

02:35 AM on 07/26/2011

Wow! I thought I was alone in disliking painted-on clown lips on women.

[myngbl]

09:31 PM on 07/25/2011

Good Lord! She was born in 1988 and she talks about bitter racism? Any racism left is not just one sided, and is available everywhere, just not the South. Naive girl.

[Jack Skellington]

12:29 AM on 07/26/2011

You are completely right. I'm actually from Texas and I have to say what racism? Any racism down there is no different than the racism up north in my opinion. ( I live in NY now.) I like Emma Stone until that comment.

[eSense]

01:20 AM on 07/26/2011

Don't be so defensive People. Calm down. She wasn't saying that racism only existed in The South. She was merely stating that The South was where she happened to experience it firsthand. There was nothing remotely derogatory about her statement, yet you were offended. The reason there are so many misunderstandings in the world is because ppl fail to listen & get offended about their own misconceptions.. I think she's a sweet & well-rounded girl who isn't content to just bury her head in the sand about something as controversial as racism. I like her even more.

[Officer Ed]

02:37 AM on 07/26/2011

From the news reports I read, it appears that the worst racism today is black on white racism.

[sylveria]

09:29 PM on 07/25/2011

I hate to burst their bubble but none of those movies were highly anticipated by anyone. The Amazing Spider-man is more dreaded by the people who are interested in than anticipated.

[Jack Skellington]

12:26 AM on 07/26/2011

Haha true. I can't believe their rebooting the Spider-Man movies. Totally irks me to no end when they have to redo something that's already good and spoil it.

[dc3dale]

09:07 PM on 07/25/2011

Yeah, Racial discrimination sucks. If the gov doesn't stop soon there is going to be trouble. Check out "affirmative action", is Racial discrimination only OK if the gov is the one doing it? No, but if you wanted to start a Race War discriminating against one Race and favoring another would seem to be a good plan...

[charleyrays]

09:21 PM on 07/25/2011

she was in our town in carrollton mississippi and all she did while in greenwood and carrollton was the way she loved people here. i dont know what part of the south she was talking about. i met her several times while she was here. i play with a band and they hired us to p[lay at some of their after filming parties. the are going to premier that movie in jackson mississippi in a month or so. some of the tickets run over 1500 dollars and the cheapest seat is 150 dollars.

[Jack Skellington]

12:30 AM on 07/26/2011

What in the world ar eyou talking about?

[eSense]

01:22 AM on 07/26/2011

Lol, this was funny though. I was thinking the same thing. :)

[CadOps]

01:23 PM on 07/25/2011

So Hot!

[charleyrays]

09:31 PM on 07/25/2011

yeah she is and she said that mississippi was so loaded with musical talent that they were ever exposed to. she reallly loved our blues musicians and really enjoyed the rockabilly bands in tenn and miss. she a realclass act and a very good dancer.

[Andrew Wojtkowski]

12:55 PM on 07/25/2011

I wish the Pop Quizes I was given in High School had no wrong answers. I'd score an easy A as well. Every time.

[Sepulchre]

12:43 PM on 07/25/2011

Spam, with viruses.

[PrimoPablo]

11:53 AM on 07/25/2011

Of course, no pop quiz would ever be given that said something like.....prove the pythagorean theorem.........because we are a nation of idiots.

[360Dunk]

11:16 PM on 07/25/2011

Speak for yourself, Pablo. This nation has accomplished more, in less time, than any other.

[Pepper MD]

01:03 AM on 07/26/2011

I agree, America hating for the sake of America hating has become disgustingly popular.