Emma Stone has vowed to ‘never make fun of Taylor Swift again’ after the actress called the musician an asshole for loudly applauding her Golden Globes win.
The Oscar winner, 35, made the joke in the press room at the awards ceremony, where she was asked her thoughts on Taylor, 34, as she loudly cheered her success.
Emma replied: ‘What a hole, am I right? I’ve known her for almost twenty years, I was very happy she was there.’
Now Emma has said she ‘definitely won’t make a joke like that again’ after it was ‘taken out of context’.
“What a dope,” she said of herself in a joint cover interview with her Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos for Variety, released Wednesday.
Emma Stone vowed to “never make fun of Taylor Swift again” in an interview with Variety on Wednesday after the actress called the musician an asshole for loudly applauding her Golden Globes win (photo during the moment)
The Oscar winner, 35, made the joke in the press room at the awards ceremony, where she was asked her thoughts on Taylor, 34, and loudly cheered her success
Taylor and Emma’s alliance dates back to a 2008 meeting at the Young Hollywood Awards. “We’ve kept in touch since then and have become good friends,” Emma revealed in January.
At the time, they were both still just rising stars — Emma starred in last year’s high school comedy Superbad and Taylor had tasted success with her first, self-titled album, but wasn’t yet the mighty cultural juggernaut she is today.
Their friendship deepened as both women became more famous and successful. They lived near New York for several years and were sometimes seen together at dinner or at nightclubs.
It’s thought Emma helped play Cupid for Swift with her previous long-term boyfriend, handsome British actor Joe Alwyn, who was Emma’s co-star in The Favorite – although the actress has always been too discreet and loyal to reveal these reports to confirm.
It is also thought that Taylor wrote the song When Emma Falls In Love about her boyfriend, who is now married to comedy writer Dave McCary. Recently, Taylor said on stage that the song was about “one of” her “best friends.” (When asked about the song, Emma says only Taylor can answer who it is about.)
In addition to a shared dry sense of humor, both women value their privacy, despite living in the glare of global fame.
In 2018, Emma said: ‘I think friendship is pretty much everything. Here’s something else I realized as I turned 30: You choose your family. You realize that your friendships, the people who will go with you into the next phases of your life – you choose your family.” She added: ‘The loyalty is enormous.’
Emma won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes for her role in the historical fantasy Poor Things, and has since gone on to great success at the BAFTAs and Critics Choice Awards.
Emma looked fantastic that evening in her gold dress
Emma, 35, has been close friends with Taylor Swift, 34, for more than 15 years. (Pictured together at the New York premiere of Poor Things)
Taylor and Emma’s alliance dates back to a 2008 meeting at the Young Hollywood Awards (seen together at the 2010 Easy A premiere)
Emma and Taylor’s friendship deepened as both women became more famous and successful (seen together in 2011)
She was the lead in the Oscar-nominated film, which was based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and also starred Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef and Willem Dafoe.
Emma – who is currently in talks to work with the filmmaker for the fourth time – described her fear in the Variety interview with her and Yorgos.
‘I felt like I let her down in the first week, and so did Yorgos. It was just hard. I could talk to him about it,” she said.
Emma further stated that she had a set idea of how she would play Baxter and that she felt like she was not living up to her own standards.
“Because I had lived with her in my mind for so long and I was so in love with Bella, I think it terrified me not to live up to her as a character,” she recalled.
However, the Cruella star noted that she was able to express her concerns to Lanthimos, with whom she worked on the 2018 feature film The Favorite, and that his style of working helped her regain her confidence.
She said: ‘I was able to talk to Yorgos about it, and gradually we were able to discover it. And because it’s a safe environment, it doesn’t feel rushed.”
The Academy Award-winning performer then talked about what attracted her to the role of Baxter, a young woman whose brain was replaced by that of her unborn child after a suicide attempt.
She has been nominated for an Oscar for her role in Poor Things
Emma won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes for her role in historical fantasy Poor Things, and has since taken the gongs at the BAFTAs (pictured) and Critics Choice Awards
‘I think that’s why I was so crazy about her. It’s the idea of not living with that self-judgment or shame, as you say, or the social contracts that you grow up growing up in,” she said.
Emma then discussed her close working relationship with Lanthimos, 50, and how he selected his cast based on their personalities.
‘Yorgos feels that a big part of his process of working with people or putting people in his films has to do with who they are as a person. It’s not just performance-oriented.’
The filmmaker also recalled planning “weeks and weeks of just playing games, laughing and being comfortable with each other” to build a bond between the cast members before filming.
Poor Things premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States last December.
The film saw widespread critical and commercial success and currently holds a 92% rating Rotten tomatoes.
Poor Things was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Stone and Lanthimos are up for Best Actress and Best Director.
The feature film received a total of eleven Oscar nominations in various categories, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design.