Chapter 1: What was Emma Stone's early career like in web design?
I had a dream last night that it was the best episode we've ever done. So I couldn't sleep the rest of the night, got in here, fired up the old machine, and I'm now waiting on these guys, and I am loose. I got a little bit of a sweat going. The hammies are pliable, flexible, and the jaw muscles are ready to really ask some tough questions and giggle at my funny little friends, Sean and Will.
Guys, welcome to Smart Less. Hi, guys. Shut up, Sean. Oh, my God. I haven't laughed so hard as I did today when we were standing on the street. We'd just come out of a meeting, the three of us. Like adults. Like adults.
And Sean starts to say something, and like he's doing right now, he undoes the top of a bottle of water, and he's about to take his hip, or he's going to do it, and Jason slaps it out of his hand. Lands on the ground. And lands on the ground. Just a fun little hair pull. Yeah, just a little fun, fun, fun. Just a plastic bottle, nothing broke.
So I reach down to grab it because it falls at my feet, and I hand it to Sean, and as he reaches for it, I just drop it right before he can grab it. So now that's twice. That's twice I've been denied water. And as it lands on the ground, Sean reaches down to get it, and Jason kicks it. And it goes flying, hits a curb, and goes under a parked, like, construction truck. It explodes.
The top comes flying off. The water's everywhere. Fucking funny. And I haven't laughed that hard. I fell to my knees. Because it was show.
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Chapter 2: How did Emma Stone convince her parents to pursue acting?
It was high school all over again. It was, like, it was a little bullying. You were just, you know. It made me laugh. It was just fun and stupid. God, I laughed. Clean fun. Jay, did you like my cheesecake last night? Yeah. Now, I would have liked it a little firmer, Sean. Yeah, it was a little too fluffed. You know, it wasn't as gooey as the last one, so I feel like we're making progress.
No, I say this as a person. I can't even boil water, so the fact that you cook anything is incredible. It's very impressive. But also, I didn't know, Will, either, that I've never made whipped cream in my life. I didn't know that you just pour half and half or whatever in a bowl and you just start whipping it. My mind was blown. Do you... I was like, oh.
Do you think it's a good idea that you've now learned how easy it is to make whipped cream? I think so. I think so. I think you know what I'm doing tonight. Yeah, you missed out on a good cheesecake last night. I know. But then I found out, then Sean told me that the secret ingredient that he does drive an hour and a half for was a British chocolate Cadbury white chocolate bar. No, not Cadbury.
It was another brand, but yeah. Another brand that we're not going to mention, I guess.
Chapter 3: What unique experiences did Emma have while filming La La Land?
We can if you want. It's called Milky Bar. We already mentioned Cadbury, so we're kind of committed. But is that a thing? Is that normal that there's a white chocolate candy bar in most cheesecakes? Well, no, no. I just melted it to make kind of like the creamy part. It was one of many ingredients. Sorry, listener, if you thought you tuned in to Smart List, it's cook-less this week. Bake-less.
Bake-less. Yeah, no. And I was so obsessed with getting the ingredients right, I drove an hour and a half to get it because they don't sell them in the United States. And what did he do, Will, when he got there? So you drove to another country? When he drove an hour and a half away to get this, what did he do while he was there?
He's like, huh, well, look, here's a rare hamburger joint that we don't have near us. Yeah, Portillo's. Oh, that's why you went. Portillo's. To Portillo's. Yeah, and he put a big burger in his face. And a shake, too, I'll bet. Yeah, I got a shake, a piece of cake, and I got fries and a hot dog. Wait, a shake and a piece of cake? For lunch? Piece of cake, fries, and a hot dog.
And then two beef sandwiches. And what's that? Two beef sandwiches, one for Scotty.
Chapter 4: How did Emma Stone transition from acting to producing?
And this is when you were on the mission to pick up white chocolate. Were you driving a school bus? Yeah, well, I picked up the white chocolate. Were you buying for all the kids in the school bus? No. No. I never get it, so I bought a little extra stuff and I put it in the fridge and I'll heat it up later. Good for you. Thank you. Guys, let's get started. Oh, wow.
I thought we had, but... This is really exciting, guys, today. You're going to freak out. Oh, it's your guest. It's my guest today. I'm so excited. We got my favorite red-headed firecracker here today. She's a self-proclaimed computer nerd. And before becoming one of my all-time favorite full-fledged movie stars... She made people websites for free.
In fact, at 14 years old, she performed a PowerPoint presentation titled Project Hollywood in order to convince her parents to let her drop out of high school and move to L.A. from Arizona to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress. Thankfully, that dream came true, so we could talk to her today. Her name is Emma Stone. Emma Stone! Emma Stone! And Emma's a little under the weather.
I'm a little under the weather. I can't believe you showed up for us. Did you get into a big pile of bad coke last night, Emma?
Chapter 5: What challenges did Emma face while filming The Favorite?
Listen, you know what? You've been there, right? There's meetings for you. Yeah, listen, we're saving a seat for you. I know. Thank you. Are you at home or in a hotel? I'm in a hotel. She's at a rehab. Thanks for having me. What an opening. Emma's been up for four days, listener. I don't think of you as a ginger, I guess, per se, when I think of gingers. But you are. I'm blonde right now.
No, no, no, I'm not. I'm actually, I'm blonde. I have blonde hair right now, and I was born blonde. Well, I was born hairless, but then I grew blonde hair. Okay. Hairless is my podcast. Sure, give us the full rundown. Bravo. Yeah, then I dyed it red. Yeah, you were red for a while there, yes? For a while. So much so that people thought it was that you were Natch Red. Red Natch.
But I'm not Red Natch. But wasn't it true that... My mother's Red Natch.
Chapter 6: How did Emma's family influence her career choices?
Yeah? Yeah. You gotta be careful with that word, Natch. I have a son who's a Natch Ginge. Oh. Yeah. We love a Natch Ginge. Oh, my gosh. Do we ever love a Natch Ginge? This has gotten so filthy from the very beginning. I know. Wait, Emma, didn't you... That Natchy Ginge? Hey, man. Do you need a second? Take a nap. I've been up for days. I'm so excited you're on the show with us, Emma.
Thanks for having me. But wait, didn't you dye it originally like when you moved here and you felt like you weren't getting parched or something? I feel like I read something and then you thought maybe your talent, which you're, you know, seeping talent, that that wasn't good enough. And that's what I was telling everyone. Yes. And that's what I kept saying. And they went, no, no, no.
That hair has got to go. But you thought you had to dye your hair. Is that true? Yeah, I was because I moved to L.A. when I was 15. And so all of the all of the things that I was auditioning for at that time were kind of, you know, like roles for 15 year old girls at that time were a lot of girls that were there.
Chapter 7: What is Emma's approach to dealing with hiccups?
I guess what I was up for was a lot of very blonde cheerleader kind of roles. And I didn't fit those very well. And so I thought if I dyed my hair brown, it would really set me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How'd that go? You know, it went great, Jason. Went really great. I didn't get any parts after that either. But a couple years later, I auditioned for Superbad. And I was at the camera test for that.
And Judd Apatow said, well, maybe she could have red hair. Because the other girl in the movie, who's my best friend now, Martha McIsaac, had brown hair. And so we dyed my hair red. And the rest was, you know... Is Sean's incredible research accurate? Were you really doing websites for people? Like are you a computer person? I was in that kind of 90s computer format.
I don't know if you guys know. Angel Fire, GeoCities, that kind of world where you did very primitive HTML. This is not coding by any means. In fact, I don't have a computer now. They lent me this computer to be able to do this with you guys. I'm like a neo-Luddite now. But back then, I was very into the internet and learning about, you know, building drop-down menus and things like that.
I mean, primitive, like, 1998 websites. What are you looking for when you're out there? What are you looking for in a drop-down menu?
Chapter 8: What are Emma Stone's thoughts on the Spice Girls and their impact?
Now, see, that's the thing. See, that's the thing. When you want somebody to step... And this keeps me up at night. If somebody's looking to step into a really elite drop-down menu... Yeah, if you're looking for a great drop-down menu... What are some of the components on this? You're in the market. No, okay. It needs to be clear, clear fonts. We're not using any Comic Sans on my drop-down menus.
No, no, no. We're hitting Helvetica hard. You now are completely, you don't have a computer at all? I don't have a computer at all anymore. Come on. I really don't. What about an iPhone? I have an iPhone, but it's a very cracked. The incredible new iPhone 15. I don't. Oh, my God. Is this an ad for the iPhone 15? Yeah, if you want to get rid of your old one. It is now. We're done with that.
The cycle's over. Thank God. We enjoyed our experience, but, oh, mama, was there a heavy rotation on that. Sorry about that, America. Wait, so you do email off your phone then? I do email on my phone, and I, you know, just type it with my thumbs. So no social media, no nothing else. No. I love that. Come on. God, that's refreshing. Thanks so much.
You know, I was thinking yesterday, I said to a friend of ours, I says to him, I says... You says friend? I says friend, I says. I said, we should... Imagine the reset this planet would get if we had no social media for six months. Globally. Yeah, it'd be pretty wild. The fucking reset would be incredible. What do you think would happen if...
Well, people would learn how to manage boredom, which I think is a lost talent. I know I try to teach my kids, like, it's okay if you're bored. That's actually another word for relaxation. Like, enjoy it. Take a breath. Being bored is okay. Like, not having anything to do at a red light or an elevator is a good time to kind of, like, reintroduce yourself to yourself for a minute. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
You know? Well, yeah, do you ever do that thing, Emma, like, where you look at people? I've been doing it a lot lately. Well, I don't know. Where I look around and I go... everybody's on their phone, every moment. If there's a down moment, and sometimes it's reflexive because people are nervous or they feel insecure.
But when you wake up in the morning, you don't have like a loop that you have to, or that you like to do on a computer? This is good, hang on. What's your computer loop? Well, you know, you hit the New York Times and your email and your calendar and you kind of get your shit together. I just do all that on my phone. So I'm probably actually on my phone more than people that have a computer.
But see, what I'm picturing here is that you've got no reason or excuse to get up out of the pillows. Correct. You're still in the feathers. You reach over, you grab your phone. I'm just in a pile of feathers. You sleep in a pile of feathers for real? What an angel. What an angel. I'm down with that. Like with a nice desktop, you could get out and into the living room and join the world.
Get yourself a desktop. You're right. This is a great opportunity for a new segment I'm calling JB, Walk Us Through It. No, you don't want to follow my morning. All right, so Emma, which one of your rad projects are we going to talk about today? There's so many. Okay, so you answer that first. I don't know. Which one would you like to talk about? I want to talk about our childhood.
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