Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos on "Poor Things"

[Music] it's Sunday morning on CBS and here again  is Lee Cowan she plays a woman who's been brought   back to life in a Frankenstein inspired tale with  a funny and a feminist Edge Tracy Smith is in   conversation with Emma Stone and the director of  her latest project a movie that's getting plenty   of award season attention top if you've seen Emma  Stone on any red carpets lately and she's kind   of hard to miss you might have noticed a Tall  Bearded man close by he's Greek film director   yorgos Lanthimos and it seems he and stone are  in a professional sense joined at the hip how   much time have the two of you spent together  like hundreds of thousands of hours and it's   all been magical every second has been a like a  dream dream this is Bella it might be more like a   fever dream good evening her brain and her body  are not quite synchronized Lanthimos directed   Stone in her latest film poor things based on  the Alasdair Gray novel of the same name it's   an updated take on the Frankenstein story in this  case a brilliant scientist transplants a baby's   brain into a recently deceased woman Bella she  quickly evolves from being a really big toddler   to a really smart adult who learns how to dance  how to read and how to think you're losing some   of your adorable way of speaking I'm a changeable  feast as are all of we apparently according to   Emerson critics have called the film Fantastical  and Sumptuous it's the result of a collaboration   between Stone and Lanthimos that they both say  could be pretty intense do you fight yeah yeah   about what we won't right now I mean fight no we  don't *fight* fight we we um we really communicate   strongly in those moments but I think we always  resolve it relatively quickly we can speak to   each other freely so it's it it helps Lanthimos  breaks down inhibitions by having cast members   play theater games and rehearsals rather than  just read through the script and he likes to   keep his set quiet you don't yell action I don't  no we'd like to ease into things in general we   try to create this atmosphere which doesn't create  tension and it all seems to have worked Lanthimos   acquired the rights to pour things years ago but  when he tried to sell the idea to Studios he got   the cold shoulder so then he made another film  one with a more conventional artistic Vision   2018 the favourite starring Rachel Weisz and Emma  Stone so my secrets are safe with you all of them good even your biggest secret abigail the favourite was also a favorite at  the Oscars with 10 nominations and one win and   Lanthimos' reputation soared did the favourite  give you the juice to be able to do this yeah   people were asking me what it is that you want  to do next and I want like poor things I can't   let you go if you do not B should turn rotten with  hate and his patience seems to have paid off the   film has already picked up a number of awards  but Stone says her character was a challenge to   play was there ever a moment when you thought oh I  don't know if I'm going to get this yeah the whole   time um yes the entire time seriously yeah why I  don't think there's been a day on set of any film   of anything I've ever done where I've been like  I really got it today that was exactly what it's   supposed to be the I mean I think that's for any  any creative person you you see something in your   head or you feel like it should be a particular  way and then it has to come out of your mouth and   your body and all of that and it never matches  up to what exactly you have in your head and   it's like a constant state of acceptance and for  an actor hopefully presence and the Golden Globe   goes to Emma Stone of course she needn't have  worried the Golden Globe voters thought she got   it just right but Stone told us that worried is  her natural state of being and that she's been   that way since she was very young do you still  have that anxiety oh yeah yeah not not to the   level that it was when I was a kid because I've  I have therapy or I have tools now to to manage   it in different ways and as the years go on you  start to learn more about about managing what that   is but yeah I mean that's my my operating system  now have you figured out how to kind of Channel it   for good is that possible if it is please tell me  is there a way to channel anxiety for good oh my   God are you kidding me anxiety is like I would I  would I'm I feel so lucky to to be to be anxious   anxious why because I think it can be sort of like  a superpower sometimes anxiety is very activating   it gets you out of bed you you kind of can't  just stay in one place it sort of forces you   to keep moving I don't know I I find a lot of  positives from it and it seems she's made the   best of it say there's here well I think I'll be  but your call a case in point her performance in   la la land for which she won an Oscar I still have  a a lot of growing and learning and work to do and   this guy is a really beautiful symbol to continue  on that journey and I so grateful for that and now   Stone and her latest movie are once again in the  Oscar conversation but she says she tries not to   let it all get to her is there a way that you get  ready for it or something that you tell yourself   to navigate these Waters no just to starty to hold  everything lightly and not cling too much to any   of it and also you know to not take yourself  seriously through that which I don't really   struggle that's not really an Affliction that I  struggle with um taking myself super seriously   because if you were me you wouldn't take me  seriously either but it's yeah I think you   can take your work seriously and not yourself  seriously she is serious about her partnership   with Yorgos Lanthimos they have another project in  the works and more on the way and yes their film   may be called Fantastical but fantastic might  better describe the real life of Emma Stone you   moved out here when you were 15 years old is this  career this life kind of what you were dreaming of   oh it's so far beyond what I what I dreamed of  I'm I feel so unbelievably grateful on a daily   basis TR truly I really really really wanted  to be on a sitcom and I can't believe that I   get to work with people that I admire and adore  and trust and have been able to play roles that   are just so far beyond what I ever imagined and  it's nuts yeah and I still am open for sitcoms   if you've got anything that you're thinking about  we'll make sure we put that out there okay thank you

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Length: 7min 54sec (474 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 21 2024