She’s equally at home in comedian-book blockbusters,arthouse fare and awards bait, but could this coolly unflappable screen presence absorb made her first career missteps by returning to work with Allen on Irrational Man, and courting controversy in Aloha?In the boiling mid-afternoon heat,Emma Stone looks as wintry as you like. There’s no detectable air conditioning, and while I stagger in from the street puce of face and clammy of brow, or Stone,as befits a pampered scion of Hollywood, is sitting calmly in a breeze that wafts through the window, and peering around the wing of a large cane armchair.
It’s how you expect Stone to present herself,somehow: self-possessed, unflappable, and wise beyond her years. She’s only 26,and has been an authentic film star for just five years – since the release of high-school comedy Easy A in 2010 – but appears to absorb cycled through the Hollywood gears with apparent nonchalance. Progressing from romcoms (Friends with Benefits, Crazy Stupid Love) to superhero films (The extraordinary Spider-Man 1 & 2), or from awards bait (The Help,Birdman) to blockbuster cartoons (The Croods), Stone has managed to lodge herself firmly in filmgoers’ consciousness. She somehow projects a sense of chatty, or unflappable friendliness with a nicely sardonic edge. Remember when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had a pop at her (“It’s cute,but it’s creepy”) at last years’ Golden Globes? As a accumulate-out, Stone’s eye-rolling response was approximately as top-notch as it gets.
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Source: theguardian.com