Emma Stone has no time for misogyny in Hollywood.
Whereas accepting the 2024 Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Awards’ Desert Palm Achievement Award for her efficiency in Poor Issues on Thursday, January 4, Stone, 35, shared some sexist recommendation she acquired early in her profession.
“When I first moved to L.A., I went to one of those general meetings that they sometimes send you to, and an executive told me that for male actors, it’s a marathon, not a sprint,” the actress recalled, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And in his eyes, for women, it was a sprint, not a marathon. And that was 20 years ago.”
Stone went on to name the assumption that ladies are solely related within the business for a restricted time “total garbage.”
She continued: “The majority of the women that I look up to in this industry, many of whom are in this room, have proven that as time goes on, life and work only get more interesting and more fulfilling.”
Two of Stone’s Poor Issues costars Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe introduced her with the accolade.
“Emma Stone continues to exert influence as one of the most important actresses of this generation, whose performances are always exceptional no matter the role. In her latest film Poor Things, Emma delivers a burning intensity and character bound for liberation,” Nachhattar Singh Chandi, the pageant’s chairman, mentioned in a November press launch saying Stone’s win.
“There is no one better suited for this role,” Chandi added.
In Poor Issues, Stone’s character, Bella Baxter, is introduced again to life by surgeon Godwin Baxter (Dafoe) after her suicide. After having her mind changed with the mind of an toddler, Bella rapidly regains intelligence and seeks a life past the confines of Godwin’s dwelling.
Talking about her position within the black comedy on Thursday, Stone mentioned she had by no means earlier than encountered a lady so “immune to external expectations and impervious to judgment and shame.” She added that the movie posed a problem as she “had to try to unlearn those aspects in myself.”
Stone additionally gave a shout-out to the movie’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, calling the challenge “a highlight of my life, mainly thanks to a true creative soulmate.”
Whereas wrapping up her speech, Stone hearkened again to the studio exec’s phrases: “I hope for many more years of the chance to take swings and to try new things and to keep this marathon going.”
Stone beforehand collaborated with Lanthimos, 50, on the 2018 movie The Favorite, for which she acquired a Finest Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in 2019. The duo additionally teamed up for the 2022 silent movie Bleat.
“There is absolutely nothing that Emma cannot do,” Lanthimos informed W journal of the La La Land star in November 2018.