Hollywood Is Her Oyster
The “Aren’t you the girl from Easy A?” days are over. Emma Stone is Hollywood’s summer sensation as she hits the screen in three big movies—The Help; Crazy, Stupid, Love; Friends with Benefits— not to mention next year’s Spider-Man film. But is there another 22-year-old actress so focused on staying fully clothed? Hanging out with Alexandra Wolfe, Stone shares her oyster-mania, her rock-bottom moment, and her strategy for avoiding the sexy trap.

Emma Stone was running down a dark, eerie hallway covered with cobwebs and stuffed buffalo heads while wearing a white Venetian mask. Hollywood’s hottest up-and-coming ingénue was not filming a movie scene but spending a Saturday night on West 27th Street in New York’s old McKittrick Hotel at a show called Sleep No More, an alternative-theater production loosely based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth that involves putting on a mask and following actors from room to room as they pantomime scenes from the Scottish Play. Along with the rest of the crowd—which that Saturday night in late May included Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, and Matt Damon—the wide-eyed actress followed a slew of half-nude, blood-spattered actors rifling through coffins and gyrating with androgynous forms atop aging pool tables.

Against the backdrop of pickled bones, scattered teeth, and detective photos of mangled corpses, even with her mask on, Stone, 22, stood out almost as much as she does in Hollywood. Unlike other actresses her age, she was fully clothed, wearing a long-sleeved nautical-striped T-shirt, skinny jeans, and black patent-leather flats. That night, standing in front of the naked chimera dancing in the strobe lights, Stone looked like Goldilocks stranded in a Stanley Kubrick movie.

Which is not to say she was afraid. Gazing at Stone’s fresh porcelain face, gaping green eyes, recently re-dyed red hair (after having gone back to her natural blond for Spider-Man), and willowy physique, I was struck by the impulse to shield her from the blood-spewing beasts and the sight of Lady Macbeth’s dying baby, but soon she was bounding down another passageway, toward another violent fight scene, and I was the one hiding behind her.

Read the full article in the August 2011 issue.

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It’s still funny to me that Emma Stone could have been cheerleader Claire Bennet on “Heroes.” The part just wouldn’t have shown off her comedic chops. In fact, I think losing that part was the best thing that ever happened to her. Instead, Emma went the “Superbad” to “House Bunny” to “Easy A” route and is now poised to be one of the biggest stars of our generation. Sealing the deal? An offer has just been extended to her to play Elizabeth Bennet in the highly anticipated classic/zombie mash-up, “Pride, Prejudice and Zombies,” based on the best-selling book. Most predicted that the role would go either to heavy-hitters Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson. But we think Emma will be just perfect.

After the jump, more high-profile movies we will soon be seeing Emma Stone in.

“The Amazing Spider-Man.” Move over Mary Jane Watson. In the reboot of the spidey series, Emma will play Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield. According to the director, their chemistry is “stunning” and she was the “clear choice” for the role.
“Crazy, Stupid, Love.” Back in March, Emma landed this role opposite Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. In the flick, Steve has just been left by his wife for another man and is determined to learn how to be better with the ladies. Emma plays his daughter, who is being courted by Ryan. If only we all could be so lucky.
“The Help.” Set in 1960s Mississipi, Emma plays a just-graduated writer who begins to interview with black women of her town to tell their story. Apparently, we’ll get to hear her Southern accent.
“Friends with Benefits.” Yep, you will be able to catch Emma in the Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis screw-fest.
“Movie 43.” Should we be surprised that the Farrelly brothers love Emma? She will be in their upcoming “Movie 43,” a series of short films starring the likes of Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, and Halle Berry. Her short is called “Veronica.”

Scottsdale native Emma Stone, has, ahem, blossomed since she was a kid, being all locally local in our Valley malls and Valley schools, breathing our Valley air.

She had yet to dye her hair red, and she wore eyeglasses and braces on her teeth.

“And I sucked my thumb until I was 11, so I had this expander in,” the 22-year-old Stone tells Elle in its July issue.

“I was a good-looking kid,” the “Easy A” star jokes. “I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, ‘Yup, these are my braces. I’ve had them forever.’ ”

She went back to blond for her role in the upcoming “Amazing Spider-Man” opposite Andrew Garfield, but she tells Elle her life didn’t get that much more anonymous.

“I mean, I haven’t been around very long,” she says. “I can’t expect everyone to have seen ‘The House Bunny.’ ”

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Many celebrity relationships end with a “split,” but rising star Emma Stone says she’s optimistic that they can last. But don’t expect to be reading much about her love life in the future!

Emma is the July cover star of Elle magazine and opening up what she looked like before she was a big star and how her career has taken off! But she won’t open up much about her love life!

The actress wouldn’t talk about her former boyfriend, Kieran Culkin, explaining “You have to keep some things sacred…”

But Emma will say she doesn’t believe celebrity relationships have a shorter shelf life.

“I don’t think that’s true. Maybe,” Emma says. “But there’s a fair amount that do work….I’m optimistic.”

And why shouldn’t she be optimistic, she’s already made her career work out so why not her love life too?

“It’s so funny how different life could have been,” Emma tells Elle. “I went to so many auditions. I remember my audition for Heroes. I went in right after Hayden Panettiere. Now here we are in this rented house. It feels like it just happened.”

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Emma Stone was all over the place at last night’s MTV Movie Awards — and yet you can still be forgiven for not being sure who she is.

By the end of the summer, that won’t be as excusable.

Stone is tasked with carrying three giant studio warm-weather releases this year.

She has a supporting role in July’s “Friends With Benefits,” the no-strings sex comedy starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.

(It’s so similar to Natalie Portman’s “No Strings Attached,” we can’t succinctly describe it without invoking the whole title.)

And much like Portland’s take, “Friends” will rely on a wisecracking ensemble to rally around the main characters and keep the movie likable.

The fact that Stone has been cast in that pack (alongside Patricia Clarkson and Andy Samberg) points to exactly what producers and studios see in her.

Thus far (in films like “Superbad” and “Easy A”), Stone has proven herself as a pretty face who can nail a punchline.

She also can’t be mistaken for an accidental actress — Stone lusted after stardom hard enough to audition for a short-lived VH1 reality pilot that purported to cast a new “Partridge Family.” The show never went to series.

But Stone soared anyway — and continues to rise.

After “Friends,” she co-headlines Steve Carell’s first post-”Office” pic, “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” out July 29.

And her biggest role to date — the one that will force you to learn her name — bows in August. Stone plays the lead in the movie version of Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller The Help.

It’s a job that just might vault her from MTV’s golden-popcorn ceremonies to the grown-up award circuit.

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As the summer movie season rolls along and most of us anticipate films like Super 8, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Cowboys and Aliens, Entertainment Weekly suggests the movie of the summer might be Crazy, Stupid, Love. Yes, the cheesy looking romantic comedy starring Steve Carell as a newly single man who splits with his wife (Julianne Moore) and attempts to reenter the dating scene with the help of womanizer Ryan Gosling, who himself falls for a girl played by Emma Stone. That movie. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, the film is widely praised with the headline “Best Romantic Comedy Ever Made (Recently)” and is favorably compared to Jerry Maguire and About a Boy. Read some of the quotes after the jump.

The article (which is not yet online) appears in the June 3/10 issue of Entertainment Weekly (with Jason Bateman on the cover) and was written by EW Executive Editor Jeff Giles. Giles says that while the full reviews won’t run until closer to the July 29 release date “EW staffers already feel evangelical about the movie” and that a made-up tagline like “It’s better than everything else. No, shut up, it is” would be appropriate to describe it.

From the trailer, it seems pretty obvious what’s going to happen. As Carell’s character becomes more like Gosling, Gosling becomes more like Carell and the pair realize only the girls in question can make them happy. But is that it?

In the article, Giles agrees with producer Denise Di Novi’s sentiment that Crazy, Stupid, Love is “kind of Richard Curtis and Jim Brooks smooshed together with Cameron Crowe” and that it has much in common with Jerry Maguire and About a Boy, two films with straight-forward romantic stories that have way more heart than the usual fare.

Carell’s acting is praised (“the lonely center around which a funny and touching constellation of love stories revolves”) along with Gosling’s abs (and “sly comedy) as well as Emma Stone’s charisma as the object of Gosling’s affections. The on-screen chemistry, especially in an improvised bedroom scene between Gosling and Stone, is also highlighted as a reason why the film works so well. “You get the sense even the actors are surprised by the variety of sparks flying,” Giles writes.

Finally, the article ends with the sentiment that while the trailer is amusing and looks predictable, the film goes beyond that”

Crazy, Stupid, Love is a keeper, and it says something true and complicated about love.

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She might have been Spider-Man’s first love, but it’s taken an awfully long time for Gwen Stacy to get some time in the live-action spotlight. Spider-fans’ patience appears to be paying off, however, as the platinum-blonde girl who steals Peter Parker’s heart will finally be the leading lady in Sony’s upcoming franchise reboot, “The Amazing Spider-Man.”

Of course, “Amazing Spider-Man” actress Emma Stone won’t be the first to play Gwen Stacy on the big screen. That honor goes to Bryce Dallas Howard, who portrayed Gwen Stacy in 2007′s “Spider-Man 3.” With both actresses appearing in the upcoming film “The Help,” MTV News made sure to ask Howard about the weird convergence of roles.

“I loved doing ['Spider-Man 3'],” said Howard. “I was only involved in one of the Spider-Man films and hoped to be in more, but I also understood that whatever choices they were going to make about the project were going to be right and good for the franchise.”

“When I heard about what they were going to do, I thought that was kind of an inspired incarnation,” she continued. “It’s going to be brilliant. And when I heard that Emma was going to be Gwen Stacy, I thought it was perfect.”

Howard didn’t shy away from making bold predictions about Stone’s portrayal of the character, either. “I admire [Emma's] talent so much, and she’s going to kick my butt,” she laughed.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” is scheduled for a July 2012 release.

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Emma Stone has been named “Sexiest actress” by Victoria’s Secret in their 2011 “What Is Sexy?” list.

What’s sexy these days? Emma Stone, Rihanna, Giada de Laurentiis and Malin Akerman — according to Victoria’s Secret, that is. The women have been deemed sexiest actress, songstress, chef and international import, respectively, on the lingerie company’s 2011 “What Is Sexy?” list.

Sexiest actress: Emma Stone
Sexiest summer style: Beyoncé Knowles
Sexiest legs: Julianne Hough
Sexiest smile: Dianna Agron
Sexiest eyes: Mila Kunis
Sexiest lips: Amanda Seyfried
Sexiest curves: Sofia Vergara
Sexiest TV cast:Vampire Diaries
Sexiest songstress: Rihanna
Sexiest beach body: Minka Kelly
Sexiest sense of humor: Chelsea Handler
Sexiest chef : Giada De Laurentiis
Sexiest international import: Malin Akerman
Sexiest beach waves: Vanessa Hudgens
Sexiest sun-kissed glow: Jessica Lowndes
Facebook fans’ choice: Sexiest up-and-coming bombshell: Jennifer Lawrence
Facebook fans’ choice: Sexiest tweeter: Ashley Greene