Emma Stone is Vogue Magazine’s November cover girl (on newsstands October 25). She’s promoting La La Land, which has already been widely acclaimed at several film festivals (Emma’s even won Best Actress awards already). La La Land is a musical costarring Ryan Gosling and many people do believe that Emma will be shortlisted for an Oscar. We’ll see! This Vogue cover helps, because it’s like Anna Wintour giving Emma Stone’s Oscar campaign her blessing. Plus, reminds people that it’s always fun to have some Fashion Girls out and about during awards season. You can read Jason Gay’s profile of Emma here. Some highlights:
Being 17 years old & going to a party at Paris Hilton’s house: “I saw someone puking in a closet. I don’t remember who it was, but I was like, ‘Do you think that’s a bathroom? Or is the line too long?’”
The fear of being an actress in Hollywood: “You always feel a little bit like that. That you could again be an outsider, that something could make people never want to hire you again.”
On pay equality: “We should all be treated fairly and paid fairly. I’ve been lucky enough to have equal pay to my male costars.” She stops herself. “Not ‘lucky.’ I’ve had pay equal to my male costars in the past few films. But our industry ebbs and flows in a way that’s like, ‘How much are you bringing into the box office?’ ‘How much are you the draw or is the other person the draw?’ I felt uncomfortable talking to my agent or lawyer about it because I was like, ‘Do people want to see me as much as they want to see Steve Carrell?’ It’s a weird conversation to have because it’s trying to see oneself from the outside. What are we at [nationally]? Seventy-nine cents to the dollar? It’s insane. There’s no excuse for it anymore.”
On her ex, Andrew Garfield: “Someone I still love very much.”
What it’s like being single: “It’s been interesting. It’s been a good year. And sad. Pros and cons.”
It’s an okay read – the majority of the piece is about La La Land and the feeling is sort of like… Emma is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, only for women. Does that make sense? The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is the fantasy for a certain kind of man, and I’m sure many, many men see Emma as a dream girlfriend. But this is Vogue, and the readership is female and so she combines that Dream Girlfriend vibe with the accessibility you need for female fans. I’m not saying that she’s doing it that consciously – I think this is just who she is, this is her real personality (for the most part).
Photos courtesy of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott/Vogue.
She looks creepy in the black lipstick picture. Is she going for Cyd Charisse in that photo? The cover is very Shirley Maclaine meets Peter Pan.
IDK why but I love the cover.
Yeah, it’s kind of fun. Is it just me or does she look like Bill Hader tho
it is a super cute cover!
the more i look at it, it gets slightly more and more androgynous, like you could put Eddie Redmayne in that shirt and pose and put the images side by side and have a cool set. lol.
Is it a wig? or did she get her hair cut?
Love Emma, don’t like the cover. She looks just like the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, whereas she normally looks quite sophisticated in a young, fresh way.
Yes! They made her eyes so striking, whereas usually it’s her lovely hair and big smile that draw your attention, so this is a great bit of photography.
@Cee –
Agree! This is the best Vogue cover I’ve seen in YEARS! Vogue’s covers have been relentlessly boring cookie-cutter unexciting bad-photography formulatic snoozes for ages….
I love her so much. She’s one of the rare actresses who feels real to me. And one of the rare celebrities who doesn’t annoy me.
She is so beautiful, and that cover looks amazing.
Having said that, La La Land doesn’t look appealing to me at all so I don’t know if I’m going to see it.
I really like Emma, IMO she comes off as a genuine person. I also feel her in the love-life sector. It’s been about 7 months since my ex of 8 years split up, and “singledom” is interesting.
i think she’s overrated; she isn’t a particularly good actor or a particularly interesting person.
Agree.
also agree!
Agree but she is serviceable at her job. I just don’t believe her in non-contemporary roles.
I like the short hair. It looks odd and sexy simultaneously.
Also agree! And I think she’s overrated as a fashion girl too — way more misses than hits on the red carpet.
Agreed. She’s boring.
Wow. I think she’s a really good actress, beautiful, and not boring. But each to their own.
Love her, always have. And I’m probably (definitely) biased, but I, too, believe she really is as open and accessible as she seems (although she manages to fly under the radar for the most part).
LOVE the cover photo. She’s looks strange and beautiful, and quite elfin.
For whatever reason, La La Land doesn’t appeal to me. Which is odd because it has a lot of good elements to it. Perhaps it’s because I’m not too hot on Ryan Gosling.
Glad she’s done with Garfield though!
I think she’s the Manic Pixie Dream Girl/ more accessible for women because her looks are more girl next door vs. raw sexuality. Super attractive women or ones with raw sexuality make other women worry about their husbands/ boyfriends desiring that person over them. So instinctively they are not generally liked right away by other women.
I don’t know… I see your point (though I think the times are rapidly changing)… but Angelina Jolie has always had loyal female fans, myself included. In the late 90’s, when I was still dealing with lots of internalized misogyny (viewing very attractive women as the enemy), I was drawn to her like a magnet and still am. “I’d go gay for Angelina” was a pretty common refrain among “straight” women at the time. So sometimes, raw sexuality attracts people of all genders.
(Then again, she never really had to cater to the male gaze; she owned her sexuality and beauty. She didn’t have blonde hair or fiery red hair or a ridiculous hourglass figure, which seem to still be the standard for “ideal” women who are pitted against each other. So maybe that’s the difference.)
That MPDG but for women vibe is exactly how Stone has always come across to me, which is why I have always reserved my right to not be into her. I don’t hate her. I just prefer to be relatively indifferent because she seems so manufactured and purposefully constructed to fit our media-conditioned preconceptions of what a likeabke actress is suppose to be. Change anything about her–her age, race, hair, body type, her excessively approachable, smiley, “I’m here to charm YOU” personality, whatever–in your mind and see if you have the same reaction. She can do whatever she wants. More power to her. But I prefer to admire other women who don’t fit the mold of The Obligatorily Accessible and Likeable (white, thin, young, hetero- & gender-normative) Woman, especially those who have the guts to flaunt it .
Yes, I do like her, but I also feel like there’s some manipulation going on. And she did a Woody Allen movie, so no money from me.
She’s done *two* Woody Allen movies.
Ugh, what’s the second? I know the one with Colin Firth.
It was a movie with Joaquin Phoenix playing a college professor and she is his student and they fall in creepy love or whatever. That’s as much as I know; I never actually saw the movie. Like you, I don’t watch WA movies on principle. 🙂
I’m not a Woody Allen fan, but do you guys listen to Michael Jackson’s music? Have you paid for it? Genuine enquiry.
yes, I have paid for Michael Jackson’s music, bought Thriller when I was 7. Haven’t paid for anything he put out since the first accusations. My mom was abused as a kid. I try to honor her experience by avoiding anything that might enable an abuser.
I could not have said it better.
In other words, people mightn’t like her if she was a totally different person. Not white, not slim, not young, not heterosexual. That’s an interesting take. I like the ways she looks, dresses and acts. Whether I would like her if she was a totally different person is not something I’ll dwell on.
Not particularly a fan of hers but great cover. Nice work Wintour!
I like her.