singing in the dead of night

31.  Professional actress and amateur worrier. Eat the damn red velvet cupcake.

[emmastonesource]

EMMA STONE Cœur Battant Fragrance for Louis Vuitton | 2019

[chalamet]

I was not a quiet kid. It’s weird because I confuse myself with my personality because half of me is like, a total ham performer — like class clown. And the other half of me is a terrified, “everything has to be perfect or the whole world is gonna fall apart” anxious type. As a kid, those two sides were so confusing to try to marry.

[emilyjeanstone]

Just as they reach the door, and as David steps out, Mia turns and looks back at Sebastian. He looks at her.

Their eyes lock.

A hint of a tear in both… And, ever so subtly, for just a fleeting second, Mia smiles.

It’s the kind of smile you could miss if you blinked – but it’s enough to signal to Sebastian that she recognized the melody he played, and that she still remembers it, and still thinks of it to this day…

Then she walks out the door.

La La Land (2016) - Dir. Damien Chazelle

[mothershroom-deactivated2021031]

EMMA STONE as Mia Dolan in La La Land (2016)

[magnetoo]

gtkmm: [1/?] favourite actresses → emma stone 

I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps.

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

i’m actually lucky enough to have worked with jessica and she was incredibly inspiring, i can’t say how excited i was getting to watch her work. i’m seriously looking forward to seeing her in it chapter two which is getting closer and closer, her and james together. oooooof. thank you so much, emma. you’ve been so cool to talk to and really just as down to earth as i predicted you would be. hopefully all of us next gen actors don’t let you down. 

She’s incredible, right? We were together in The Help and she gave one of my favorite performances ever in that. I am equal parts excited and absolutely terrified for the second installment of It! The first was so, so good but I am such a wimp... usually I wait for things to come out on Netflix so I can watch them with all the lights on but I don’t think I can leave it that long. If I’m never not down to earth, feel free to give me a slap. I highly doubt you could ever disappoint me, Diana!

[blackbirdemma]

teylcrswift·:

We are truly lost without the shake! And that’s actually an amazing motto even if it’d kind of make me a parody of myself. But I’m all here for it and having you as a supporter is everything - maybe you’d be my vice president? But it’d be a joint effort in the end, of course, you’ve got all the brains.

I would be the worst vice president, I would have way too much anxiety for that and way too much fear of judgment from the public. Oh, please, you’re one of the smartest people I know, don’t go talking down my best friend – I love her.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don’t really care about them all that much?

Margaret Atwood, from “The Year of the Flood,” published c. 2009 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

amazing and not to mention hilarious, i can just picture myself running around screaming “not the candy drop buttons” at everyone who’ll listen to me. i have to agree there is something to be said for the way opportunities fall into our laps. i wouldn’t have hated getting a little bit more practice acting when i was younger, but for the most part i feel like it’s just come natural to me so far. i guess that’s all thanks to my sparkling personality. listen, i’ll save my screams for later when i’m thinking back on this conversation, i want to be able to spare your ears for now. i’m really really glad you think so, ‘cause if you think it there must be truth in it. 

I can already hear it in my ears, what an iconic line. You seem like a natural to me! You can have all the lessons and jobs in the world but I think if acting is meant for you, it’s meant for you. I mean, Jessica Chastain didn’t start acting until later (i.e. not that late at all, but later than her teens) in her life and look at her now. You have a beautiful personality, as far as I can tell! Thank you for the consideration. And I try to be truthful 99% of the time, this is definitely one of those. I’m so excited for the next gen of actors.

[emmastonesource]

Comedy’s my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn’t really change the method of acting. 

[blackbirdemma]

larsonhqs·:

Don’t say you love me more than Jen cause she might try to kill me. I’ve been laying low these past few months, taking trips, healing myself, all that fun stuff. How about you? What’s been keeping you busy?

Kill you or kill me? Or both of us? She could take us both out with an arrow. That sounds like an amazing time and a well-deserved rest! I’ve been doing some voice work, prepping for Cruella, breaking my bones, you know, the usual.

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

i mean i can’t say i haven’t considered it but i think if i was really going to pay homage to shrek i’d want to dress up as the gingerbread man. costumes are so much fun, i love getting dressed up and pretending that i’m someone else, makes me regret not having done more acting when i was younger. there’s so much tension between the two of them i’m really waiting for things to blow up, especially after the end of their washington dc trip. these compliments coming from you kind of make me want to scream from the top of my lungs, seriously. you’re an incredible actress i can only hope to have a career half as good as yours. 

The gingerbread man would be amazing! Most of the characters from Shrek would be, honestly, and it’s been long enough since a film came out that it would be considered quirky, I think. I think that acting comes into your life when it’s supposed to, although I know what you mean. I started at 15 and plenty of my peers started when they were pre-teens, but at least I had a childhood? DC was intense, and a little too real. Don’t scream! Or do, it’s your life, but you’re already well on your way to a phenomenal career, I can tell.

[blackbirdemma]

larsonhqs·:

EMILY JEAN STONE – I love you, just thought I’d remind you, you beautiful angel. @blackbirdemma

I love you more, most of all, more than anything. I’ve missed your stunning face, what have you even been doing?

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

this is a little bit embarrassing but my only theater expierence was playing fiona in shrek the musical when i was in middle school. that’s pretty much my only acting history prior to my last couple movie roles, but if i still had the costume i’d pull a heidi klum and just dress up in that. god, it’s been like a fucking nightmare watching offred cracking but elisabeth is such a fucking amazing actress she makes it such a sick pleasure to watch. i haven’t watched the latest but i’m sure that when i get cozy in bed later i’ll probably do that, and give myself dystopian nightmares. 

There’s nothing to be embarrassed about, there! That’s absolutely amazing, Shrek The Musical is one of my favorites and Fiona is a totally badass. You should totally pay homage to that one Hallowen season. I did a lot of youth theater as a kid and as a result got a lot of experience in the fitting room with all kinds of absurd costumery. I was and am obsessed with it. Elisabeth is truly an icon and so is Yvonne, I’m a little bit in love with them both and their scenes together are so powerful. Oh, you’ll have nightmares, I do every time I watch. ALSO, an afterthought, I never would have dreamt that Booksmart was one of your first acting roles so color me impressed.

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

i’ve been better at getting prepared and doing things in advance this year. the costumes on amazon are shameful, but in all honesty most of the women’s costumes from any places like that are trash. the best costumes are ones that you come up with on your own, but sometimes they flop too. i’ve gone as a few things that were too eccentric and nobody knew who i was supposed to be. anyone wearing handmaid’s costumes this year are about to get a rant from me, especially after this season, which has been absolutely terrifying. 

I think all of us have gone too eccentric or obscure in the Halloween costumes. Especially theater kids – I had way too many old Shakespearean outfits at my disposal and it, it just wasn’t cool. In hindsight, that is, I always felt pretty cool wearing them. This season has been insane. Actually insane. Almost more difficult to watch than the ones that came before it which is... saying a lot. I have friends that just can’t bear to and I don’t blame them.

[blackbirdemma]

teylcrswift·:

Stupid movies are sometimes a relief from having to think logically for an hour and a half. I think I’m gonna go see it tomorrow or the day after, so my review will be coming back to you asap. No one would ever shake again and that’s a world I don’t want to live in. No shake? Then we have nothing. Yeah I mean if you pretended no one would believe you anyway. The original Queens.

NO SHAKE AND WE HAVE NOTHING should be your campaign motto when you run for president. Just putting that out there. I would vote for you. I would vote for you so hard.

[blackbirdemma]

disilvers·:

see that’s how it’s been for me for as long as i could remember, it’s always been like pick whatever and then get it ready as quickly as possible. this year i just want to be prepared and like y’know if there’s like a costume competition i want my costume to be cool enough that i win. the handmaid’s costumes aren’t it, saw a couple of those on my search and i was just shaking my head.

I like your style, preparation really is key and Halloween would have fewer double ups if more people put thought into their costumes. I’ve spent a few hours on Amazon since our conversation looking and, man, why is every woman’s costume the “sexy” or “sassy” version of the men’s? Oh wait, I know why. Right? Just kinda uncomfortable. I don’t think the people who do it have seen the show. Or read the book. Or just reallllly missed the point.