Emma Stone got “physically sick” during fake scene in Easy A
Emma Stone and her pocketful of sunshine touched the big screen for the first time in Easy A, a comic, modern spin on The Scarlet Letter that sealed the future Oscar winner’s movie-star reputation.
Olive Penderghast is a 17-year-old who, after lying to her best friend about losing her virginity, started encouraging peers to tell others they had s*x with her in order to boost their status or disguise their se*uality.
Olive and her buddy Brandon (Dan Byrd), who is tired of being teased because of his s**uality, pretend to have wild and very noisy s*x at a party so he can fit in with his peers in one scene.
EW invited director Will Gluck (Friends With Benefits, Peter Rabbit) to break down a page from the film’s craziest moment to commemorate the anniversary.
Stone vomited during the scene, according to Gluck, because of the fake teen s*x.
“This was also the time that Emma had her fake asthma attack. She was jumping up on the bed so much she started getting physically sick. We had to stop filming. She said she had asthma. A doctor came, treated her, and at the end she said, ‘I don’t actually have asthma; I’m just out of shape.'”
Stone assumed she was suffering an asthma attack when the bed broke twice during production, according to Gluck.
Emma Stone Reveals Why She Didn’t Carry Cruella de Vil’s trademark cigarette holder
In her role as Cruella de Vil in Disney’s upcoming live-action picture, Emma Stone is missing one of Cruella’s distinctive accessories. Her signature cigarette, as well as a lengthy cigarette holder.
That’s because Disney began prohibiting smoking in all of their films in 2007, and in 2015 expanded the ban to include all Lucasfilm, Marvel, and Pixar films. The restriction, however, did not deter Stone from wanting to have Cruella’s cigarette holder in the film.
She told the New York Times, “That is not allowed in 2021. We are not allowed to smoke onscreen in a Disney film. It was difficult to not have that cigarette holder… I was so excited to have that green plume of smoke in there, but it was not possible.”
“I don’t want to promote smoking, but I’m also not trying to promote skinning puppies,” the actress quipped of her role.
Adding the cigarette holder would have been a great, vintage element to Cruella’s overall nefarious character!
Since 2015, Disney has committed that its films will not “depict cigarette smoking in movies […] that are rated G, PG or PG-13,” unless it is for historical accuracy or shows cigarette smoking unfavorably, according to Variety.
Cruella reimagines Disney’s legendary villain in the long-awaited prequel to 101 Dalmatians, following Cruella de Vil’s origin tale, and is directed by Craig Gillespie, who also directed I, Tonya. Stone is the second actress to play de Vil on the big screen, following Glenn Close’s portrayal of her in the 1996 adaption of 101 Dalmatians and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians.
“We don’t quite get to a place where this woman is skinning puppies,” Emma said in the interview, “but there is an exploration of what it means to be ‘bad’ and what the difference is between that and being rebellious and thinking differently than everyone around you.”
In terms of “Cruella,” Emma Stone’s portrayal of the classic Disney villain has gotten fantastic reviews. The actress earlier sparked interest in the film when she debunked allegations that it was a Disney remake of “Joker,” as the trailers had led many fans to assume. “In many ways, it’s very different from ‘Joker,'” Stone stated in March. “I would never even remotely compare myself to Joaquin Phoenix. I wish I was more like him.’
The film ‘Cruella’ is now in theaters and accessible on Disney+.
