"RE-RELEASE: Emma Stone"

Summary

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SmartLess: RE-RELEASE – Emma Stone

Podcast: SmartLess
Hosts: Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
Guest: Emma Stone
Release Date: March 12, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this re-released episode, the SmartLess trio welcomes Oscar-winning actor Emma Stone for an hour of candid, often hilarious conversation. With her trademark wit (even while under the weather), Emma dives into topics ranging from her techy teenage years and unique career trajectory to unexpected injuries and her deeply relatable approach to work-life balance. The hosts deliver their signature blend of good-natured ribbing, personal stories, and exploration of Emma’s versatile filmography, resulting in an episode that’s both heartfelt and laugh-out-loud funny.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Childhood, Early Career & Name Change

[06:24–13:12]

• Emma shares the story of her move from Arizona to LA at age 15 to pursue acting, supported by a PowerPoint pitch to her parents ("Project Hollywood").
• As a teen, she built websites using GeoCities and AngelFire:
  • Emma: “This is not coding by any means … Just very primitive HTML. … I would not. If you … In fact, I don’t have a computer now.” ([10:07])
  • She now describes herself as a "Neo Luddite," working from her phone and avoiding social media.
• The origin of “Emma Stone”:
  • SAG already had an "Emily Stone," so she first tried "Riley," then permanently chose "Emma" after her Spice Girls idol, Baby Spice.
  • Emma: “I had the opportunity when I was in, you know, like, second or third grade, I asked the teacher to call me Emma … But then I had the chance to do it permanently, and here I am.” ([25:04])

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2. Hilarious Work Stories & On-Set Mishaps

[14:03–27:12]

• Sean and Emma reminisce about working together on the film The Rocker and trading stories about the star-studded but underseen cast.
• Emma discusses her early job at a dog bakery in LA, “Three Dog Bakery,” and her Scottsdale roots, with asides about quirky jobs like dog-poop pickup services.
• Physical mishaps and bone density come up repeatedly:
  • [25:29] Emma recounts breaking her shoulder the night before meeting the Spice Girls, followed by a recent toe break (“I have bone density issues. That’s clear, because I broke my toe yesterday.” [27:26])
• She reveals she broke seven bones before turning 30 and details her real (and comedic) struggles with medical oddities, including childhood colic—which contributed to her husky voice ([29:52]).

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3. The Digital Detox, Phones & Coping with Boredom

[10:14–13:22]

• The group discusses the world’s dependence on technology and social media.
• Emma admits she uses only her phone for everything, eschewing computers entirely.
• Will: “People would learn how to manage boredom, which I think is a lost talent … Being bored is okay.” ([12:15])
• Emma confesses she’s actually on her phone more than people with computers.

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4. Family Life, Relationships & SNL

[31:05–32:25]

• Emma talks about her 2½-year-old daughter and meeting her husband, Dave McCary, while hosting SNL (“He was a writer/director there for about five years, doing digital shorts.” [31:28])
• She reveals excitement about hosting her fifth SNL—earning her “Five-Timers Club” jacket.

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5. Career Highlights — Projects Old & New

[33:32–40:07]

• The Curse: Emma describes her new dark comedy series with Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie.
  • The premise involves a married couple haunted by a child's “curse” as they try to launch an HGTV show ([34:01]).
• Poor Things: Emma discusses her collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
  • She became a producer and beams with pride: “It’s probably my favorite thing I’ve ever gotten to do.” ([37:24])
• The group covers her earlier films (Superbad, The Favourite, La La Land, and Birdman) with playful confusion over award wins and losses.
• Emma confirms she won her Oscar for La La Land, not The Favourite ([40:16]).

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6. Stage vs. Film – The Hardest Job

[43:50–46:07]

• Emma reveals her most challenging professional job: playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret on Broadway.
  • “You have to live like a monk … I’ve never experienced something that physically taxing as an actor.” ([44:19])
  • She tells a stage horror story about losing both contacts during a key number: “I couldn’t see a thing in the world. And I just went and, like, slammed it. … It was terrible.” ([45:29])

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7. Health, Quirks & Life Balance

[27:14, 29:52, recurring]

• Medical mishaps are a recurring source of humor: broken bones, bone density, asthma, and even hiccups treatments get lengthy, giddy discussion.
• Emma’s daily essentials when working: “Every day for a snack, I have apples and peanut butter. Every day I have a Starbucks coffee. … Could be in the greatest coffee places in the world … Doesn’t matter. Find a Starbucks.” ([38:32])
• Sean and Emma bond over snack choices; Will questions their mutual addiction to peanut butter.

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8. Notable Tangents: Tattoos, Brothers, and Arizona

[49:33–53:29]

• Emma shows off a family tattoo ("bird feet") that has become, in her words, “poorly done”—and tells the story of her entire family sporting the design.
• She reminisces about her close relationship with her brother, who has a tech career and no Hollywood ambitions.
• The cast pokes fun at the heat and “quirks” of growing up in Arizona.

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9. The “Oscar Curse,” Career Perspective & Acceptance

[53:49–56:36]

• Jason asks Emma if she worried about the “Oscar curse,” where post-win careers sometimes stall.
  • Emma had no anxiety, thanks to immediately shooting The Favourite after her La La Land win.
  • Emma: “The next day I went right back to work … It was kind of amazing.” ([55:16])
• Will pitches a coffee table book of unused acceptance speeches; Emma expresses genuine amusement.

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10. Closing Playfulness & Farewell

[58:44–end]

• Sean quotes the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” lyric to Emma in a sweet, awkward send-off.
  • Emma: “You not knowing that that was a Spice Girls lyric—that’s one of the more painful things.” ([59:16])
• The group affectionately voices their admiration and appreciation for Emma’s work ethic and diverse talent.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Emma Stone on her career launch:
  “At 14 years old, I performed a PowerPoint presentation titled Project Hollywood in order to convince my parents to let me drop out of high school and move to LA…” ([06:30])
• Will Arnett, poking fun at post-Oscar nerves:
  “Some actors who win Oscars … you kind of don’t see them for a long time. Like years and years and years.” ([54:37])
• Emma Stone, reflecting on injuries:
  “I’ve broken seven bones before I was 30. … There’s an endocrinologist [who] was like, we gotta talk about this, like, something’s up with you.” ([28:05])
• Sean Hayes, about Emma’s “never sucked” streak:
  “She’s in that category. She’s in that never sucked. I always say, John Goodman, number one … And she’s one of them.” ([61:39])
• Emma Stone, on choosing Emma as a stage name:
  “I was a huge Spice Girls fan. … There was Emma, who was Baby Spice. … The teacher didn’t ever stick. But then I had the chance to do it permanently, and here I am.” ([25:02])
• Emma Stone, closing out with trademark humility:
  “Thank you guys for having me. … I’m sorry I was such a sick mess, but this was lovely.” ([58:29])

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Timestamps for Important Sections

• Comedy/Jovial Opening, Pranks: [02:34–06:23]
• Emma’s Introduction & Tech/Name Origins: [06:24–13:12]
• Pre-Acting Jobs, Dog Bakery: [17:35–19:04]
• Physical Mishaps/Bone Density: [25:29–28:40]
• Family Life & SNL Five-Timers: [31:05–32:25]
• The Curse/TV Projects: [33:32–34:56]
• Poor Things & Collaborating with Yorgos: [35:05–37:36]
• Stage vs. Film, Cabaret Stories: [44:02–46:15]
• Tattoo Story: [49:33–51:07]
• Oscar Win/Industry Perspective: [53:49–55:16]
• Heartfelt Sign-Off and Spice Girls Callback: [58:57–59:33]
• Host Debrief & Emma’s “Never Sucked” Status: [61:36–61:52]

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Tone & Atmosphere

Authentic, improvisational, and irreverent—with frequent tangents, supportive ribbing, and poignant moments. Emma’s humor and candor match perfectly with the hosts’ playful banter, making for an episode that feels like a hangout between old friends, even when discussing serious topics.

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For Listeners:

This episode is a celebration of Emma Stone’s genuineness, resilience, and curiosity, seasoned with the unique chemistry and humor that define SmartLess. Even if you’re new to Emma or to the show, you’ll find plenty to appreciate and many reasons to laugh.

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Transcript

[Jason Bateman]

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[Emma Stone]

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[Jason Bateman]

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[Emma Stone]

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[Sean Hayes]

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[Will Arnett]

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[Emma Stone]

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[Jason Bateman]

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[Will Arnett]

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 Smartless.

[Sean Hayes]

Smart, Smart, Smart.

[Jason Bateman]

Less. Hi, guys.

[Will Arnett]

Shut up, Sean.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, my God. I've never. I haven't lasted. Laughed so hard as I did today when we were standing on the street. We 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 a top of a bottle of water and he's about to take his hip or no, he's going to do it. And Jason slaps it out of his

[Jason Bateman]

hand, lands on the ground.

[Sean Hayes]

And lands on the ground.

[Will Arnett]

Just fun.

[Sean Hayes]

Just. Just kind of fun.

[Will Arnett]

Just one little hair pull.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, just a little fun, fun thing.

[Will Arnett]

Just a plastic bottle. Nothing broke.

[Sean Hayes]

Plastic bottle. So I reach down to grab it. Cause 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. Like a chocolate.

[Jason Bateman]

That's twice. That's twice denied water.

[Sean Hayes]

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.

[Will Arnett]

It explodes. Top comes flying off. The water's everywhere.

[Jason Bateman]

Fucking funny.

[Sean Hayes]

And I haven't laugh. I failed to make it because it

[Jason Bateman]

was high school all over again. It was like. It was a little bullying, you know.

[Sean Hayes]

It was just fun and stupid.

[Will Arnett]

God. Clean fun, you know?

[Jason Bateman]

Jay, did you like my cheesecake last night?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. Cheese.

[Jason Bateman]

Now.

[Will Arnett]

I. I would have. I would have liked it a little firmer, Sean. A little.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. It was a little too fluff, you

[Will Arnett]

know, it was a little. It wasn't as gooey as the last one. So I feel like we're making progress.

[Jason Bateman]

I like the last one.

[Will Arnett]

No, I say this as a person. I can't even boil water. So the fact you cook anything is incredible. It's very impressive.

[Jason Bateman]

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 whip it and you just

[Sean Hayes]

start the special whipped cream.

[Jason Bateman]

You just start whipping it. My mind was blown. I was like, oh, do you think

[Sean Hayes]

it's a good idea that you've now learned how easy it is to make whipped cream?

[Jason Bateman]

I think so.

[Will Arnett]

I think so.

[Jason Bateman]

I think you know what I'm doing tonight. Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

You missed out on a good cheesecake last night. Well, but then I found out, then Sean told me that the secret ingredient that he drive an hour and a half for.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Was a British chocolate Cadbury white chocolate bar.

[Jason Bateman]

No, not Cadbury. It was another brand, but, yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Another brand that we're not going to mention. I guess we can if you want.

[Jason Bateman]

It's called Milky Bar.

[Sean Hayes]

We already mentioned Cadbury, so we're kind of committed.

[Will Arnett]

But there's a.

[Sean Hayes]

There's a.

[Will Arnett]

Is that. Is that a thing? Is that normal that there's a white chocolate candy bar in most cheesecakes?

[Jason Bateman]

Well, no, no. I just melted it to make kind of like the creamy part. It was one of many ingredients.

[Will Arnett]

But you thought you tuned into Smartless. It's cookless this week.

[Jason Bateman]

Bakeless.

[Will Arnett]

Bakeless, yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. 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.

[Will Arnett]

And what did he do, Will, when he got there?

[Sean Hayes]

So you drove to another country.

[Will Arnett]

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.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, Portillo.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, that's why Portillo's. To Portillo's.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, and he put a big burger in his face and. And a shake too, I'll bet.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, I got a shake, a piece of cake and I got fries and

[Will Arnett]

a hot dog and a pizza.

[Sean Hayes]

You got a shake for lunch? Piece of cake, fries and a hot

[Jason Bateman]

dog and then two beef sandwiches.

[Sean Hayes]

And what's that?

[Jason Bateman]

Two beef sandwiches? One.

[Sean Hayes]

And this is when you were on the Michigan driving a school bus. White chocolate.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, well, I had, I picked up the white trolley.

[Will Arnett]

Were you buying for all the kids in the school bus?

[Jason Bateman]

No, I never get it. So I bought like a little extra stuff and I put, I put it in the fridge. I'll heat it up later.

[Sean Hayes]

Good for you.

[Jason Bateman]

Thank you, guys.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Let's get started.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, wow. I thought we had.

[Jason Bateman]

But this is really exciting, guys. Today you're gonna freak out.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, it's your guest.

[Jason Bateman]

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 LA 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.

[Will Arnett]

Emma Stone.

[Jason Bateman]

Emma Stone. And Emma's a little under the weather.

[Emma Stone]

I'm a little under the weather.

[Sean Hayes]

That's.

[Jason Bateman]

I can't believe you showed up for us.

[Will Arnett]

Did you get into a big pile of bad coke last night? Emma?

[Emma Stone]

Listen, you know what, you've been there, right?

[Sean Hayes]

Right?

[Will Arnett]

Meetings for you. Yeah, listen, we're saving a seat for you.

[Emma Stone]

I know. Thank you.

[Jason Bateman]

Are you at home or in a hotel?

[Will Arnett]

I'm in a hotel rehab.

[Sean Hayes]

It's a home first ever.

[Emma Stone]

Thanks for having me. What an opening.

[Will Arnett]

Emma's been up for four days. Listener.

[Sean Hayes]

Emma, I don't think. I think of you as a ginger, I guess per se when I think of ginger. But you are.

[Jason Bateman]

I'm blonde right now.

[Emma Stone]

No, no, no, I'm not. I'm actually I have blonde hair right now. And I'm. And I'm. I was born blonde. Well, I was born hairless, but then I grew blonde hair. Okay, Hairless is my podcast.

[Sean Hayes]

Sure. Give us the full run.

[Jason Bateman]

Bravo.

[Emma Stone]

The. Yeah, but I dyed it red.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, you were red for a while there.

[Emma Stone]

Yes, for a long time.

[Will Arnett]

So much so that people thought it was. It was that you were n redneck.

[Emma Stone]

But I. But I'm not red match. But wasn't it true my mother's red match?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

You got to be careful with that, son.

[Sean Hayes]

I have a son who's a nats ginge.

[Emma Stone]

Oh yeah, we love a natch ginge.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh my gosh, do we ever love a natural ginger?

[Emma Stone]

So filthy from the very beginning.

[Will Arnett]

Wait, that natchee ginge.

[Sean Hayes]

Hey man, do you need a second

[Emma Stone]

take a nap.

[Will Arnett]

I've been up for days. So excited you're on the show with us, Emma.

[Emma Stone]

Thanks for having me.

[Jason Bateman]

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

[Emma Stone]

that was what I was telling everyone.

[Jason Bateman]

Yes.

[Emma Stone]

And that's what I kept saying. And they went, no, no, no, that hair has got to go.

[Jason Bateman]

But that you thought you had to dye your hair. Is that true?

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, I was. Cause I moved to LA when I was 15 and so 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 very. I guess what I was up for was a lot of very blonde, cheerleadery 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 apart.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Arnett]

How'd that go?

[Emma Stone]

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, what was did.

[Will Arnett]

Is Sean's incredible research accurate? Were you really doing websites for people? Like, are you a computer person?

[Emma Stone]

I was in that kind of, you know, 90s computer format. I don't know if you guys know you know, Angel Fire, geocities, that kind of world where you did very primitive HTML. This is not coding by any means. I would not. If you. In fact, I don't have a computer now. They lent me this computer to be able to do this with you guys.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, do not. Do you.

[Emma Stone]

I'm like a Neo Luddite now, but back then I was very into the Internet and learning about, you know, building dropdown menus and things like that. I mean, primitive, like 1998.

[Sean Hayes]

What are you looking for when you're out there? You're looking. What are you looking for in a dropdown menu?

[Emma Stone]

Now, see, that's the thing. See, that's the thing.

[Sean Hayes]

When you want somebody to step.

[Emma Stone]

And this keeps me up at night.

[Sean Hayes]

If you want somebody. If somebody's looking to step into a really elite dropdown menu. Menu.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah. If you're. If you're looking for great drop down.

[Sean Hayes]

If you're in the market.

[Emma Stone]

No.

[Jason Bateman]

Okay.

[Emma Stone]

It needs to be clear.

[Sean Hayes]

Clear.

[Emma Stone]

We're not using any Comic Sans on my drop down.

[Will Arnett]

We're.

[Emma Stone]

We're hitting Helvetica hard.

[Will Arnett]

You now are completely. You don't have a computer at all?

[Emma Stone]

I don't have a computer at all anymore.

[Will Arnett]

Come on.

[Jason Bateman]

Wow.

[Emma Stone]

I really don't.

[Will Arnett]

What about. What about an iPhone?

[Emma Stone]

I have an iPhone, but it's a

[Will Arnett]

very incredible new iPhone 15.

[Emma Stone]

I don't.

[Will Arnett]

Sean.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

If you want to get rid of your old one, that cycle's over. Thank God. We enjoyed our experience. But. Oh, mama. Was there a heavy rotation? Yeah, Sorry about that, America.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, so you do. But you do. Do you do email off your phone then?

[Emma Stone]

I do email on my phone. And I. And I, you know, just. Just type it with my thumbs.

[Jason Bateman]

So no social media? No. Nothing else?

[Emma Stone]

No.

[Will Arnett]

Come on.

[Emma Stone]

No.

[Will Arnett]

That's refreshing.

[Emma Stone]

Thanks so much.

[Sean Hayes]

You know, I was thinking, yesterday I said to a friend of ours, I says to him, I says, he says, friend? I says, friend. I says, yep. I said, we should imagine. Imagine the reset this planet would get if we had no social media for six months. Globally.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. It'd be pretty long.

[Sean Hayes]

The fucking reset would be incredible.

[Emma Stone]

What do you think would happen?

[Will Arnett]

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 with a red light or in an elevator is a good time to kind of like reintroduce yourself to yourself for a minute, you know?

[Sean Hayes]

Well, yeah. Do you ever do that thing, Emma, like, where you look at. I've been doing 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. If there's a down moment. And sometimes it's reflexive because people are nervous or, you know, they feel insecure.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, but when you. 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. Well, no, but what's your computer loop? Well, you know, you hit the. You hit the New York Times in your email and your calendar, and you kind of get your.

[Emma Stone]

I just do all that on my phone.

[Will Arnett]

Okay.

[Emma Stone]

So I'm probably actually on my phone more than people that have a computer.

[Will Arnett]

But see, what I'm picturing here is that you've got no. No reason or excuse to get up out of the. Out of the pillows.

[Sean Hayes]

Correct.

[Will Arnett]

You're still in the feathers. When you reach over, you grab yourself.

[Emma Stone]

I'm just in a pile of feathers.

[Sean Hayes]

You sleep in a pile of feathers.

[Will Arnett]

For real. What an angel. What a angel.

[Sean Hayes]

I'm down.

[Will Arnett]

Like, with the. You had a nice desktop. You could get out and into the living room and join the world. Get yourself a desktop. Get out.

[Sean Hayes]

This is a great opportunity for a new segment. I'm calling jb. Walk us through it.

[Will Arnett]

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?

[Jason Bateman]

We're going to. There's so many, but. Okay, so you answer that first.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, I don't know.

[Will Arnett]

Which one would you like to talk about?

[Jason Bateman]

I want to talk about our childhood. I want to talk about all these good stuff. I want to talk about. It was your birthday last week. Happy birthday.

[Emma Stone]

Thank you so much.

[Jason Bateman]

Yes.

[Will Arnett]

Are we allowed to guess the age? Can we guess the age?

[Emma Stone]

Oh, this might be mean, but sure, go ahead.

[Will Arnett]

No, no, no. How about. I'm going to go with 24, 25.

[Sean Hayes]

Will, I'm gonna get real. Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Be real.

[Sean Hayes]

I'm not gonna.

[Emma Stone]

Will and I worked together when I was, I think, 19.

[Sean Hayes]

Yes, that's true.

[Jason Bateman]

Really?

[Emma Stone]

That was a long time ago.

[Sean Hayes]

That is true.

[Will Arnett]

You're gonna win then. So, wait, then.

[Emma Stone]

Wait, then.

[Will Arnett]

Sean, you go next.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Jason Bateman]

I was gonna say late 20s.

[Emma Stone]

That's very cute, Sean. And sweet.

[Will Arnett]

True.

[Jason Bateman]

I really don't know.

[Will Arnett]

Are you truly north of 30?

[Emma Stone]

I'm north of 30.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, she. She is. She is 37.

[Emma Stone]

Come on, 35. You're. You're the closest by far.

[Jason Bateman]

Really?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

35, that's so young.

[Sean Hayes]

You don't look 37. I was just guessing. Based on what? The information.

[Emma Stone]

Okay, well, sure. Well, okay.

[Sean Hayes]

No, no, no, that's true. We did. We did. We did work. That was a long time ago.

[Will Arnett]

What was the job? Do you remember?

[Emma Stone]

It was called the Rocker.

[Will Arnett]

Rocker.

[Sean Hayes]

You didn't.

[Emma Stone]

The Rocker.

[Will Arnett]

Wait, the Rocker. I still need to see. And what was the other one I said I need to see the other day? Hot Rod.

[Sean Hayes]

All right, well, let's not go through mine. Emma, go tell everybody who is in the Rock. Nobody's seen it. Who is in the Rocker? The cast is pretty hilarious.

[Emma Stone]

It was Rainn Wilson.

[Sean Hayes]

Yep.

[Emma Stone]

Jason Sudeikis.

[Sean Hayes]

Yep.

[Jason Bateman]

You?

[Emma Stone]

Bradley Cooper.

[Sean Hayes]

Yep.

[Emma Stone]

Fred Armisen.

[Sean Hayes]

Yep.

[Jason Bateman]

You.

[Will Arnett]

I need. Who directed this?

[Emma Stone]

A guy named Peter Catano who directed the Full Monty.

[Sean Hayes]

Peter Catano?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

John Glazer. John Glazer? Oh, yeah, the great John Glazer who did Hot Rod.

[Will Arnett]

Who directed Hot Rod. Was that. That wasn't Yarmo, was it? Yeah. Gotcha.

[Sean Hayes]

But the cast was pretty.

[Emma Stone]

It was pretty wild. Yeah. We were in Toronto.

[Sean Hayes]

We were in Toronto.

[Emma Stone]

And I feel like you weren't there for that long. I was there for a couple months.

[Sean Hayes]

I was there for a week maybe. And.

[Will Arnett]

And what kind of part were you playing, Emma?

[Emma Stone]

Well, I was playing the bass in a band that was fronted by. It was sort of a school of rock adjacent. Would you say, Will?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, yeah, I would.

[Emma Stone]

Kind of. Story.

[Will Arnett]

Willie, what were you playing?

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, I played the lead singer of a. Of a hair band. True story.

[Emma Stone]

You guys gotta check. You gotta check it out.

[Sean Hayes]

And Bradley was the guitarist and Fred was the bassist. But it was. But it was fun. But yeah, I mean, you have not. I'm trying to think. You just have not stopped working and doing awesome stuff since the moment I became aware of you. You've just been like, consistently just doing cool thing after cool thing. Great film after great film. It's pretty remarkable. Not a lot of people rare.

[Will Arnett]

Basically saying you haven't done anything as shitty as the rocker since the Rocker, is what Will is saying.

[Sean Hayes]

I've done way worse movies than the Rocker since the Rocker. Oh, my God.

[Emma Stone]

Subjective. My thing.

[Sean Hayes]

Maybe it is good.

[Emma Stone]

Let's not go too deep through the IMDb or whatever.

[Jason Bateman]

I want to know. I met you once very briefly. You were so kind. Years and years ago, blah, blah, blah. You never remember. I think it was at snl But I was like, oh, my God, that's Emma Stone. And then. So when I did my research for today, I didn't know that your name was Emma. Lee, I want to know these guys. I know why it's called Emma, but I want you to tell these guys why you changed it to Emma. And then I also want to know about your dog bakery thing that you worked at. Because I have a friend who lives in Arizona who has a company. It's a dog poop company. She picks up poop. Dog poop for you. Just call her. And she picks up dog. But it was in Scottsdale.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, that's where I'm from.

[Jason Bateman]

I know. That's why I was in the dog.

[Emma Stone]

That's amazing. Well, my name was.

[Sean Hayes]

Have you noticed, like, there's been less dog poop around when you go home?

[Emma Stone]

You know, now that you mention it,

[Sean Hayes]

that's how Sean's friends.

[Emma Stone]

I mean, it used to be absolutely everywhere, just piles of it.

[Will Arnett]

But her gig is just. She's just a freelance. She just goes around town and she's looking for just spare poop that's unclaimed.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, that's what she says. You call her up if you don't want to pick up your dog poop, and she. It's called poop patrol. Sherry's poop.

[Will Arnett]

Who's compensating her? The city, her clients.

[Sean Hayes]

People who don't want poop in their lawn. Man.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

I'm confused. Wait, you call her just. So you just let your dogs kind of run free on your own lawn, like, all week? And then poo patrol comes, like a guard picks everything up.

[Jason Bateman]

That's right.

[Will Arnett]

The gardener comes over, picks up the poop. Yeah, like, she's. But she's not blowing the leaves and stuff. There's.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, she picks up the poop.

[Emma Stone]

Wow.

[Will Arnett]

Wow.

[Sean Hayes]

I don't know 30 jokes in there. I didn't know where to.

[Jason Bateman]

Well, that's kind of why I brought it up. It's such a funny job.

[Will Arnett]

You take a tight five and gather them and then come back to us.

[Jason Bateman]

But wait, a dog bakery? You worked at a dog bakery when you were a teenager?

[Emma Stone]

Okay, I worked at a dog bakery when I moved to LA when I was 15. Called Three Dog Bakery at the Farmer's Market.

[Jason Bateman]

At the Grove.

[Emma Stone]

At the Grove?

[Jason Bateman]

I used to go there. You worked there?

[Emma Stone]

Yes. I mean, not for long. For, like, maybe six months.

[Jason Bateman]

Wow.

[Will Arnett]

So, wait, Shani, this was pre Ricky?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, this was years ago. Years and years ago.

[Emma Stone]

This was when I was 15, 20 years ago.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. That's when I had my two other dogs. I used to go there to shop for them.

[Emma Stone]

Do you think that we ever ran into each other then?

[Jason Bateman]

Probably.

[Will Arnett]

Probably, huh?

[Sean Hayes]

I think word would have gotten out that Will and Grace's Sean Hayes was there.

[Emma Stone]

I think you're right. I think I would have told everybody.

[Sean Hayes]

Guaranteed.

[Will Arnett]

You probably should guarantee it.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my God.

[Emma Stone]

Okay, so I must not have been working those hours.

[Jason Bateman]

We'll be right back.

[Will Arnett]

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[Will Arnett]

All right, back to the show.

[Jason Bateman]

Tell these guys why you changed your name from Emily to Emma.

[Emma Stone]

Well, it was originally my name was taken at Screen Actors Guild when I got my card when I was 16.

[Will Arnett]

She was an Emily Stone.

[Jason Bateman]

Wow.

[Emma Stone]

And so I originally changed it to Riley because when you tell a 16 year old that they can just change their name, you pick a cool name. And so I was like, I'll be Riley.

[Will Arnett]

You could have changed it to Emma, middle name Lee.

[Emma Stone]

Emma Lee Stone.

[Will Arnett]

Right. That you. That.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, I don't know if I could pull off being a three namer.

[Sean Hayes]

Is there any way you could call her 20 years ago?

[Emma Stone]

Can you call me 20 years ago? Really quick?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real quick.

[Emma Stone]

Just one second. We'll pause and then we'll just.

[Sean Hayes]

That is a real thing though, right? That is a real thing though. All people who change their names because of sec. Because there's already somebody.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Michael J. Fox, I think was. Because there was already a Michael Fox. Right.

[Emma Stone]

One of the great ones is isn't. I feel like Michael Keaton is Michael Douglas.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, wow. Oh, really?

[Emma Stone]

And he changed his last name to Keaton because Michael Douglas was Michael Douglas.

[Jason Bateman]

I just learned. I just learned Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein. I did not know that.

[Emma Stone]

No.

[Jason Bateman]

Swear to God. Swear to God.

[Emma Stone]

That's unbelievable.

[Sean Hayes]

His brother was Bob Einstein. You know, Super Dave Osborne. That was Bob Einstein and that's Albert's brother. Or was.

[Jason Bateman]

But anyway, Emily to Emma.

[Emma Stone]

Emily to Emma. Well, because you're trying to get to the Spice Girls route.

[Jason Bateman]

Yes. You should have changed your name to

[Sean Hayes]

Albert Einstein, because that was free.

[Emma Stone]

That's true. That one's free now.

[Will Arnett]

Not being used anymore.

[Sean Hayes]

Wait, so you went to Emma?

[Emma Stone]

I went to Emma because growing up, I was an enormous. I mean, still to this day, I am. But enormous. An enormous. Sorry, I'm slurring from all of the. I've been up for four days.

[Will Arnett]

You need to take a nap.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, I gotta take a nap. I was a huge Spice Girls fan. And there was Emma, who was Baby Spice.

[Sean Hayes]

No way.

[Emma Stone]

Crazy about her.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

I had the opportunity when I was in, you know, like, second or third grade, I asked the teacher to call me Emma, but they didn't. It didn't ever stick. But then I had the chance to do it permanently, and here I am.

[Jason Bateman]

I love that.

[Will Arnett]

Have you met the Spice Girls since I have.

[Emma Stone]

Does she know that I've met the Spice Girls now? I think she does. Cause she gave me a really special T shirt that she had signed. It was, like, from one Emma to another kind of thing. It was pretty cool.

[Will Arnett]

Did you keep it together or.

[Jason Bateman]

We just.

[Emma Stone]

I did not keep it together at all. At all. But I will say, the night before I met them, we were going to their concert in England when they. When they, you know, had done. They did, like, a reunion tour a couple years ago in 2019. And the night before, I went to a. A party at somebody's house, and the magician, David Blaine, was there.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Emma Stone]

And he did a. Just an astounding trick. You know, he did this card trick. And then it was this whole thing, and it was an illusion. An illusion, if you will. And he. And it was like. And he pulled up his phone, and the card was reflected in a picture on someone's, you know, in the glasses of someone on a boat. And it was this crazy thing, and I got so excited. Now, this is a tale as old as time, because I'm about to tell you a story from yesterday as well. I got so excited that I ran. I was like, I can't stand it because I'm such a big fan of magic. And I couldn't stand it, and I ran. And I was wearing these. These heeled boots, and I slipped on the wood floor. This is the night before the Spice Girls concert. Slipped my arm, went back out behind me, and I broke my shoulder.

[Will Arnett]

When was the bland response?

[Emma Stone]

2019. The summer of 2019. So the next day, I'm supposed to go to the Spice Girls concert. And I was like, there is no Way on Earth. I'm missing this. So we got in England, one of these, you know, things from Boots, the drugstore, this little sling. And I hadn't even gotten an X ray yet. And I went, and I was in so much pain that actually meeting the Spice Girls under those circumstances was probably better. So I couldn't do that in front of them.

[Will Arnett]

Instead.

[Sean Hayes]

And your excitement was so tempered by the pain you had.

[Emma Stone]

It was so tempered by the pain that I was like, it's amazing to meet you guys. Oh, my God. Like, it was so brutal. It was. It was broken in two places. And then yesterday, I. I have bone density issues. That's clear, because I broke my toe yesterday.

[Sean Hayes]

No.

[Will Arnett]

Kicking something.

[Jason Bateman]

Are you kidding me? Doing what?

[Sean Hayes]

On what?

[Emma Stone]

Getting out of the shower.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, well, you.

[Sean Hayes]

While. You shouldn't be lying down in the shower. What do you mean, getting out?

[Will Arnett]

I know you accidentally. You stubbed it on something.

[Emma Stone]

I slammed it into something, and now it's completely black and blue and like, all messed up. And so I've been icing it all day.

[Jason Bateman]

And you're sick, and you showed up for us today. God bless you.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. How did you not cancel?

[Emma Stone]

It's a dream. This is incredible. Are you kidding me? I'm sitting on a computer with headphones. This is lovely.

[Will Arnett]

Half of one of those excuses would have made me cancel this thing.

[Sean Hayes]

God, I was just thinking.

[Emma Stone]

I was so excited for this.

[Sean Hayes]

I would give anything for improved bone density.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Sorry, just. Sidebar. Sidebar.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait.

[Emma Stone]

We need to take. What is it? Boniva or something. There's some pill to help our bone density. But I've broken seven bones before I was 30. I broke seven bones, Emma. Isn't that crazy?

[Will Arnett]

Well, so then you seriously looked into this? You seriously do have bone densities.

[Emma Stone]

There's an endocrinologist was like, we gotta talk about this, like, something's up with you.

[Will Arnett]

Right. And did he come up with anything?

[Emma Stone]

Just that I need to take a lot of vitamin D and calcium and do, apparently weight bearing exercises, like heavy lifting is what creates more bone density.

[Will Arnett]

Well, you can just drink milk and eat, like, dumplings from Chin Chin. Like Sean. He says he has a glass of milk four times a day.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I have a glass of milk with dinner every night.

[Emma Stone]

No, you don't.

[Jason Bateman]

I really do.

[Emma Stone]

You're a joke.

[Sean Hayes]

Why not?

[Jason Bateman]

It's good for you.

[Emma Stone]

That's Chris.

[Jason Bateman]

It's good for you. It's vitamin C. Will you sit at

[Emma Stone]

dinner drinking a glass of milk?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, yeah, I saw it a week ago, so I just I disturb.

[Emma Stone]

Are you just doing it to be adorable or you really enjoy it?

[Will Arnett]

No, I mean, this is what he does.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I.

[Sean Hayes]

You know why he lives like he's in the 50s? It's incredible.

[Will Arnett]

12 years because.

[Jason Bateman]

Because water's too boring and soda has too much sugar, so I just drink milk.

[Will Arnett]

Well, you know, they have zero sugar. Soda now.

[Jason Bateman]

Not into it. So listen, I wanted to. By the way, since we're on medical,

[Emma Stone]

I wish this was just a gallon of milk. So fascinating.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, but is it true? Because you have one of those cool, like, million billion dollar voices, too. Is it true that you, first of all didn't know you had asthma until you had an asthma attack while filming Easy A. Which I read. And the other thing is, did you really have a condition when you were a baby because you cried too much, colicky, and it made your voice. Is that true?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, because you were colicky, that gave

[Emma Stone]

you a raspy voice, like extremely colicky for five months.

[Sean Hayes]

What?

[Jason Bateman]

Colicky?

[Emma Stone]

Can you imagine now having a kid? I cannot imagine having a colicky baby to that extent. 5. 5.

[Jason Bateman]

What does that mean?

[Emma Stone]

Colicky colic is apparently a condition where your stomach is killing you. Like there's. You're in a lot of pain. It's like everything I can talk about is just my medical condition.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I know, it's fascinating, but here's

[Will Arnett]

what I think it is. It is the intestines, or part of the GI tract that is still developing and unkinking itself. And there is a kink in the hose that is not. It still needs to grow to release itself, and it takes a couple of weeks. And the babies are miserable.

[Emma Stone]

Miserable. So it was like if I was awake, I was screaming myself hoarse every day. And I think it was very, very traumatizing for my parents.

[Jason Bateman]

I see.

[Sean Hayes]

You know what's good for bone density is those. The astronauts. You know that thing, the power plate thing that vibrates, that's supposed to be good for bone density.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, thanks.

[Emma Stone]

Isn't that kind of a 50s thing, too?

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, a little belt around you that she.

[Sean Hayes]

I read it once over a glass of milk. I was trying to.

[Jason Bateman]

I want to know. Let's get to the career stuff because it's really interesting to me.

[Emma Stone]

Okay, great.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, how old?

[Sean Hayes]

No, hang on. How old's your baby? Let's just do a quick. How old your baby?

[Emma Stone]

Two and a half.

[Will Arnett]

Sweet. Boy, Girl?

[Emma Stone]

Girl, Girl.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, sweet.

[Sean Hayes]

I didn't know that. That's so fantastic. Congratulations and thank you so much. Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

With your husband, who you met at SNL. Did you meet him at SNL?

[Will Arnett]

Truly?

[Jason Bateman]

Dave McCary.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

And is he.

[Sean Hayes]

What.

[Will Arnett]

What does he do with snl?

[Emma Stone]

He was a writer director there for about five years.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, nice.

[Emma Stone]

Doing digital shorts.

[Jason Bateman]

And you met him there?

[Emma Stone]

I met him there, yeah. But we had a bunch of mutual friends, so. Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

So great. I love that.

[Will Arnett]

I feel like I was there that week, too. Although you've probably hosted a few times. I remember. I was. I remember being there once when you were hosting, and I was just like,

[Emma Stone]

oh, she's watching, guys. Wait, hold on. I'm gonna host on December 2nd. I get to get my five timers jacket.

[Will Arnett]

No way.

[Sean Hayes]

No way.

[Emma Stone]

I'm so excited, I can't even stand it. I'm. I'm like. I'm freaking out.

[Will Arnett]

You're so good at it.

[Jason Bateman]

That's really, really cool. Wait, so, Emma, you and Dave married in the pandemic, and was that just because it was planned that way and you just kept it, or were you like, you know what? Let's just do this now.

[Sean Hayes]

You were waiting for a pandemic, weren't you? Didn't you guys say you wanted to get married, but let's wait for a pandemic to hit? I read that somewhere.

[Will Arnett]

Did you trim the fat? A little bit on the invite list?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Smart.

[Emma Stone]

The week that I got married, I did open a refrigerator, and the handle broke off, and I got a black eye.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, my go. Oh, my God. You need a helmet.

[Emma Stone]

And that's where it stops. You know, I do need a helmet.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, my God.

[Emma Stone]

I need a helmet and extensive bag.

[Sean Hayes]

You got this new show with Nathan Fielder. I want to skip ahead. I know she's your guest.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, yeah, but that.

[Sean Hayes]

That looks really.

[Emma Stone]

I know she's your guest, but I'll take this one.

[Sean Hayes]

But I say it looks really fun. First of all, he's great. And not just because he's Canadian. He's super funny. You're super funny. And when I first saw the ad for it, I was like, these motherfuckers. And then they got one of those safties in there.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, they sure did. Put a wig on him. Took the boom out of his hand and said, go.

[Sean Hayes]

This is like a fucking. This is like a fucking talent explosion happening in one thing. I'm so goddamn excited for this thing. I haven't seen. So excited for this.

[Emma Stone]

It's a wild ride, that one.

[Sean Hayes]

Tell us about. How did that come to you? To your orbit, Nate?

[Emma Stone]

So Nathan and I have known each other through Dave, and Dave's best friend Kyle Mooney have been.

[Sean Hayes]

I love Kyle Mooney.

[Jason Bateman]

Huge.

[Emma Stone]

And they've been best friends since they were nine years old. So. Yeah. And so Nathan knew Dave and Kyle well. And I got to know Nathan for a couple years. And then I think in 2020, 2019 maybe, Nathan called me and said that he and Benny Safdie had come up with this kind of loose idea for a show based on something that Nathan had really experienced where someone had said that they curse him in a moment. And he was like, this probably isn't true, but he found that it haunted him.

[Sean Hayes]

Sure.

[Emma Stone]

And they started coming up with this sort of premise of what would happen if you're kind of going about your life. And they had this idea for this couple who is trying to create their own HGTV show. But early on, the husband, a little girl, says, I curse you. And if that hangs over the premise of this whole show and how that evolves and kind of makes them go crazy, whether it's real or not. And it just sort of spiraled out from there and became this very intense show. It's really. It is a comedy, but it's kind of not a comedy comedy.

[Will Arnett]

Kind of dark.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, it's very. Yeah, there's a. There's a lot going on there. So it was. No, it was a blast. And we were. We were in. In New Mexico for like half of last year shooting that and.

[Jason Bateman]

And say the title again.

[Emma Stone]

The Curse.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, the Curse. I see posters for it everywhere.

[Sean Hayes]

And say the title one more time

[Jason Bateman]

and just remember the third time, just.

[Emma Stone]

So the Curse.

[Jason Bateman]

I want to talk about. I want to talk about Poor Things too, which is a movie that you

[Will Arnett]

have coming out, the brilliant Yorgos Lanthimos.

[Sean Hayes]

I'm gonna go see it this week.

[Emma Stone]

You are?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Where are you gonna see it?

[Sean Hayes]

I'm seeing it at one of the

[Emma Stone]

screening because I'm going. I'm gonna be at those. Yeah, I'll see you there.

[Sean Hayes]

I just got a text for it.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, great. Was it me texting you to come?

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, it was you. Do you go by Emma Stone? Oh, shit. It is. Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Interesting. Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

This is the second project with Yorgos.

[Emma Stone]

Yes, it was technically the third because we made a short film at the beginning of 2020 and then. So. But it was. It was.

[Will Arnett]

Yes, it was the second fullest one. So. Brilliant.

[Jason Bateman]

Amazing.

[Emma Stone]

We made another one in the meantime. We made another one in New Orleans last year.

[Will Arnett]

No, really?

[Sean Hayes]

Wait. Yeah, with Willem.

[Emma Stone]

With Willem, yeah. Willem's in Poor Things.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

So we've done two together.

[Jason Bateman]

And so for my sister Tracy, Yargos did the favorite. The lobster. Just a bunch of kill the sacred deer.

[Emma Stone]

Incredible dog tooth, which is.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, it's a poor thing. So did you develop it? Did you find it? Like, did you just get an offer? Like, how did that come.

[Emma Stone]

So Yorgos and I did the favorite in 2017, and right as we were wrapping up the Favorite, he told me about this book that he and Tony McNamara, who was the writer of the Favorite, had optioned, and they were working on adapting. And he just told me the premise of it, and I was like, I beg of you. I have to do this with you.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Emma Stone]

And so for the next few years, we worked on things and started kind of putting it all together, and he asked me to be a producer on it, which was amazing. And so we kind of like, assembled this team, and then at the end of 2021. Why do I keep saying all the dates?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Will Arnett]

Because you're like, well, you have incredible recall on dates.

[Sean Hayes]

I do everything by date, so.

[Emma Stone]

Really?

[Sean Hayes]

Month and year. Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, me too. Everybody's birthdays. Do you forget a birthday? Can you forget a birthday once?

[Sean Hayes]

I can forget a birthday, but if you say, like, hey, like, I can say, like, oh, yeah. Like, it was that time of year

[Will Arnett]

that it was this month, March of 2023. He knows a difference between April of 21 and March of 24.

[Emma Stone]

Maybe I function similarly.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Crazy.

[Emma Stone]

But anyway, so anyway, so we made it two years ago, and, yeah, it's just. It's probably my favorite thing I've ever gotten to do.

[Jason Bateman]

Really?

[Emma Stone]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, so with you work all the time, constantly, it seems like. Which is great. And everybody can't get enough of you. So when you go from set to set, other than your child, do you have, like, something. How do you set it up so it's home? Or how do you set it up so it feels like, all right, I need to have at least this, this, and this in my trailer or this and this with me.

[Will Arnett]

What a fun question.

[Emma Stone]

I'll tell you. I'll tell you three things that always keep me company no matter where I am. Coke app.

[Will Arnett]

Sorry. Big plate of Coke.

[Sean Hayes]

Just.

[Jason Bateman]

She got to get through it.

[Emma Stone]

The idea that I'm on coke just because I'm on cold medicine.

[Will Arnett]

Jason, go with it, you know, Just

[Emma Stone]

suffering through this on cold medicine.

[Sean Hayes]

She's here on her own.

[Will Arnett]

She.

[Emma Stone]

I have a broken.

[Will Arnett]

Can't believe it.

[Sean Hayes]

I have a broken foot.

[Emma Stone]

I'm near death.

[Will Arnett]

I know.

[Jason Bateman]

I can't believe it.

[Emma Stone]

No, I. Apples and peanut butter.

[Sean Hayes]

Really? Really?

[Emma Stone]

Every day for a snack, I have apples and peanut butter. Every day I have a Starbucks. Coffee. Doesn't matter where I am. Could be in the greatest coffee places in the world, Europe, wherever. Doesn't matter. Find a Starbucks.

[Will Arnett]

And what's your choice?

[Emma Stone]

A Coconut Mist.

[Will Arnett]

Coconut misto.

[Jason Bateman]

What is it? A coconut one.

[Emma Stone]

Listen, they make you say misto, which. You know the Starbucks lingo where they make you say these things. It's a venti.

[Sean Hayes]

I won't do it.

[Emma Stone]

Coffee. Just a regular filter coffee. Drip coffee. A large with steamed coconut milk.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Will Arnett]

And that's. That's the misto part.

[Emma Stone]

That's the misto. That's what makes it a misto.

[Will Arnett]

So that's not a latte?

[Emma Stone]

It's not a latte? No, because it's not espresso.

[Sean Hayes]

So you have apple, by the way. I have peanut butter and rice cakes. Always.

[Emma Stone]

Every day.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, that's my treat. That's my snack.

[Emma Stone]

That's your treat?

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, that's my snack. I feel like in a minute after

[Emma Stone]

peanut butter and rice cake.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, I love that.

[Emma Stone]

That's a healthy treat. It's not like you go and get all the Twizzlers from the.

[Will Arnett]

Why don't you guys go with just the apple or just the rice cake? Why do you need to spread all the fatty peanut butter gives you a

[Emma Stone]

little hit of protein and that's right. Big head of joy, a lot of sugar.

[Jason Bateman]

I like the peanut butter with the apples.

[Emma Stone]

It's delicious.

[Sean Hayes]

Sean, explain for. Not for Tracy, but for Jason. What joy is.

[Will Arnett]

It's another kind of peanut butter.

[Jason Bateman]

Not for Tracy or.

[Will Arnett]

No, that's Jiffy.

[Jason Bateman]

Emma, like when I. You were so phenomenal in the favor and you won for the favorite, right?

[Will Arnett]

No, she did nominated.

[Emma Stone]

Yes, she did.

[Will Arnett]

She was fantastic though.

[Emma Stone]

Thank you so much.

[Will Arnett]

Nominated.

[Jason Bateman]

Wait, but what was.

[Will Arnett]

Is that you won a nomination is what I meant.

[Jason Bateman]

Did you really not win? I can't remember. You did win.

[Emma Stone]

Not for the. Not for the favorite. No.

[Jason Bateman]

Which one did you win for?

[Emma Stone]

La La Land.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, that's right. La Lin. So I fucking love that movie too. God, you're so.

[Emma Stone]

Truly embarrassing thing to have to sit here and say.

[Will Arnett]

No, not for.

[Emma Stone]

Not for that one.

[Jason Bateman]

No, I want to know. I asked.

[Will Arnett]

I wanted to know everything.

[Jason Bateman]

But wait, the favorite was. You were so.

[Emma Stone]

My mom says I'm always a winner.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. And always her favorite, huh?

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jason Bateman]

Exactly. But was that. Because when I've seen that movie, when I watched that movie, I was like, oh, my God, this just looks like a colossal amount of work, that movie, the favorite. Like it just looks so grand and so massive.

[Emma Stone]

That's just because a lot of it was in that fisheye lens. That's what makes it look so grand.

[Jason Bateman]

All right.

[Emma Stone]

You know what I mean? That's a little trick of the trade.

[Will Arnett]

That was in England.

[Emma Stone]

Yes, that was in England.

[Will Arnett]

And La La Land was here in Los Angeles.

[Emma Stone]

In la.

[Will Arnett]

Yes.

[Sean Hayes]

Favorite is such a good movie. I just wanted to apart from the work that, you know, these guys are so tired, but that movie was so good. Emma Stone,

[Will Arnett]

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[Jason Bateman]

Was that one of the hardest things you've ever done? What's the hardest one you've ever done?

[Emma Stone]

Oh, God.

[Jason Bateman]

Physically, emotionally, both, whatever.

[Will Arnett]

La La Land had a bunch of stuff in it.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, yeah.

[Emma Stone]

The hardest thing I've ever done was on stage.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

By far.

[Will Arnett]

Sean loves stage stories.

[Jason Bateman]

I do. You know I do.

[Emma Stone]

Well, I've only done one professional stage show.

[Jason Bateman]

What went wrong, like, 10 years ago?

[Emma Stone]

Oh, you want a. What went wrong?

[Jason Bateman]

I wanted, like, a bad theater story.

[Emma Stone]

But here's the. I did. I did Cabaret, and I only did it for three and a half months, which is so short by stage terms, but enough, I thought I. Truly. Going into it, I was so beyond excited. It was probably the greatest experience of my life for the same reason. And I was like, oh, you just do it at night, and then you do two shows a day on Wednesday and you do two on Saturday, and it's just. And then you're at home and you're just. Your entire life is eaten. And it is so hard. You have to live like a monk. Like, there's nothing. Or at least I did because I lose my voice and I had to sing, and it was like. I've never experienced something that physically taxing as an actor. It was unreal. I'm sure that was the hardest.

[Jason Bateman]

And when you. But did anything go massively wrong? Do you have any kind of night where you're just like, oh, shit, my voice. Nothing came out when I sang or somebody.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I had steroids multiple times. No. Yeah. No heart attacks in the house, thank God. But that was. That's. There are a lot of those stories. But no, I. I just to add to my, you know, things that are wrong with you. I'm extremely blind. Blind. Blind as a bat.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay.

[Emma Stone]

And I wear contacts for that. And they both popped out of my eyes while I was singing. Maybe this time. And there's. And it cuts.

[Will Arnett]

Really been reaching for a note because I was really.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, I'm always reaching for those notes. I'm not a singer, per se. And the. And the lights went dark and you have to, you know, go off in the. In the blackout. And I couldn't see a thing in the world. And I just went and, like, slammed it. It was terrible. Getting off stage, not being able to see it all was.

[Jason Bateman]

That's terrible. And then.

[Will Arnett]

Couldn't find the contacts. Right. They were on the floor.

[Emma Stone]

Couldn't find it. But no, I always bring spares. I have to travel with spares. Yeah, it's very great.

[Will Arnett]

If you did the rest of the play with glasses on. Would have been great.

[Sean Hayes]

Came Back out with glasses.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah. All of it gives me so much anxiety. But when, when you.

[Emma Stone]

I always had a fear, Sean, of getting hiccups on stage.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, my God, that's a great.

[Emma Stone]

Have you had hiccups on stage?

[Jason Bateman]

No, but I had one thing where I had like allergies and I could feel the post nasal drip in the back and it was right before I had to sing. What do you get when you fall in love, you know, with Chris?

[Sean Hayes]

Sure.

[Jason Bateman]

And I was literally like.

[Sean Hayes]

Like what?

[Emma Stone]

Oh, no.

[Jason Bateman]

Like forever.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, God.

[Jason Bateman]

It was the worst. Panic tears because I couldn't cough. But I had to act like I was everything. It's the. I have a million.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay, I'm about to, I'm about to tell you guys something that I think that you're not going to enjoy. I know Jason's not going to enjoy this.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, no.

[Sean Hayes]

What do you do when you get. I'm going to ask you guys, I'm going to go around to the panel here. What do you guys do when you get the hiccups? Do you have like a sure fire?

[Will Arnett]

I do have one.

[Sean Hayes]

Emma, go first.

[Emma Stone]

I have a cure, but people tell me that I'm wrong. But if not, if you do it right. Okay, here's the thing.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. You don't scream at people.

[Emma Stone]

This is the solve. Put your arm up above your head. Just take one arm, put it up above your head. Well, just because I'm right handed. So if you're, if you're left handed, you could do it.

[Will Arnett]

Drivers don't do this.

[Emma Stone]

You take your. Don't do it. If you're driving now, take water and you're gonna, and I'm talking like tiny sips. You go, swallow, swallow, swallow, swallow. As you lower your arm slowly.

[Jason Bateman]

Well, nothing's gonna happen because look at all of us.

[Emma Stone]

None of us doing it. Well, we're just practicing listeners. We're all doing it.

[Sean Hayes]

We're practicing.

[Emma Stone]

I'm telling you, it is a hundred percent.

[Jason Bateman]

I feel incredible.

[Emma Stone]

Correctly.

[Sean Hayes]

Really?

[Jason Bateman]

I feel amazing.

[Sean Hayes]

What do you guys do? Sean or J?

[Jason Bateman]

I, I.

[Will Arnett]

Nothing.

[Jason Bateman]

I, I wish I had something.

[Sean Hayes]

Take a deep breath.

[Emma Stone]

Try this.

[Jason Bateman]

And I kind of let it, feel it kind of go away. And then I take water while I'm holding my breath. It seems to work.

[Sean Hayes]

I've never told anybody. I've never told anybody this. This is absolutely true. And I can't believe I'm telling it. We're ready anytime I get the hiccups. And I remember one time, vividly, years ago, our buddy Edgar Wrightwood did this thing called don't was like a. It was like a fake movie trailer. Between. There was a double bill, like a Robert Rodriguez film or whatever. And he made fake trailer. And I did the voice anyway. I remember going to record the trailer voice because I do. Don't even breathe. Don't even. Blah, blah, blah. I did this whole thing, right. It was in the West Village at this recording place and doing the thing, and I'd had a soda, I think, and I got the hiccups because I was taking in so much air. And I was like, what the fuck? This is where I learned it. And I was like, just give me a second. I just got to. Because I'm like hiccuping on, you know, trying to record. And I go into the bathroom room. Oh. And I stick my finger down my throat and I make myself gag and throw up a little bit.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, gone. Yeah, gone.

[Will Arnett]

I get it.

[Sean Hayes]

I came back out and I finished. And that's what I do every time when I get the hiccups now, I go, excuse me.

[Jason Bateman]

I get it.

[Emma Stone]

That is disgusting.

[Will Arnett]

Were you just gambling?

[Emma Stone]

There's a better way, Will.

[Sean Hayes]

I don't know. It works.

[Emma Stone]

Do you. Do you fully throw up or do you sometimes gag?

[Sean Hayes]

Ew. Well, it depends on where I'm at. You know what I mean?

[Emma Stone]

Depends on what's going on that much that you'll just make yourself puke.

[Sean Hayes]

I hate hiccups.

[Will Arnett]

I will be. But this was. Were you just gambling that this would work or was this something you kind of read about?

[Sean Hayes]

I was just gambling. I had no idea and I just did it.

[Emma Stone]

Wow. That is.

[Will Arnett]

Huh.

[Jason Bateman]

I did not know this. You have a tattoo on your arm or your wrist or somewhere.

[Emma Stone]

My wrist? I want to see a very, very, very poorly done tattoo. Look at this. Now this was supposed to be. I just want you to understand this was based off of a drawing that was drawn with a pencil.

[Jason Bateman]

Okay. It looks like bird feet.

[Emma Stone]

Does that look like a pencil?

[Sean Hayes]

Is it a cactus?

[Emma Stone]

It's bird feet. And it bleeds out more and more every single year. I got it 13 years ago, and it just keeps spreading. In 20 years, this is just gonna be.

[Will Arnett]

What kind of half assed tattoo artist.

[Sean Hayes]

Were you in a French prison or something?

[Emma Stone]

I went into just kind of a random Tattoo place on 14th Street. And. And I was just. Yes.

[Will Arnett]

Why didn't you consult with the sleep. Why didn't you consult with the sleeveless one? He could have hooked you up with a great tattoo artist.

[Emma Stone]

And now I've gone to good tattoo artists. And said, can I get this lasered off and redone? And they were like, your skin is so thin there that it's probably just gonna look like you're burnt. Like, it might be worse.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, really? So wait, I don't know what to do. And your mom got the same one?

[Emma Stone]

My mom, my dad, my brother. I mean, the story behind it is so special. But it was like. And there's all low look great, by the way, because they all went to better tattoo people. And I, like, I'm the one who has to cover it up for work every day. And it's, like, raised up. It's really.

[Will Arnett]

Don't you hang out with Thoreau just a little bit?

[Emma Stone]

Oh, I know Thoreau.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. Okay. So he could have hooked you up with somebody with maybe a better.

[Emma Stone]

I didn't know him then.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah, yeah.

[Emma Stone]

This was 2010.

[Jason Bateman]

I love that. Your whole family has it, though.

[Will Arnett]

Any thoughts on Justin?

[Emma Stone]

This was October of 2010. Will you remember?

[Sean Hayes]

I love that. I love that. By the way, I knew I wasn't gonna say it before, but, you know, when we shot the rocker, it was June of 2007. Okay.

[Jason Bateman]

I know.

[Sean Hayes]

I know you know. I know you know. I know you know. That is. Yeah. Jason brought up a good point. Any thoughts on Thoreau? And by the way, this is a safe.

[Will Arnett]

Anything hurtful that you can think of

[Jason Bateman]

another segment we're introducing.

[Emma Stone]

Well, you know, he suffers from eczema.

[Will Arnett]

There we go.

[Jason Bateman]

Does he really?

[Will Arnett]

That's why he doesn't wear sleeves. Cause he's proud and he wants to show.

[Emma Stone]

That's right.

[Will Arnett]

No, that's not.

[Emma Stone]

That's right.

[Sean Hayes]

Is he a Skyrizi guy?

[Emma Stone]

I don't know if he really does suffer from eczema. Eczema. It's just we. You know, we've had a lot. We've had skincare conversations, as I'm sure you know.

[Sean Hayes]

We once.

[Will Arnett]

We want. We once put on his Wikipedia page that he cries when he orgasms. It's true. Kimmel.

[Emma Stone]

Did someone take it off?

[Will Arnett]

He did, like, an hour later. I guess he got an alert or something. Yeah, Kimmel knows how to, like, break into someone's Wikipedia page.

[Sean Hayes]

The wrong person know how to do it too.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, I love that.

[Emma Stone]

Will you guys put something on my Wikipedia page? Don't put that one. Put something different.

[Will Arnett]

No. Yeah, we'll. We'll put Jimmy's brain.

[Sean Hayes]

We're gonna put cries when Justin Thoreau orgasms.

[Emma Stone]

Please, please don't put that.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, it would be funny.

[Emma Stone]

See how long it would be funny.

[Jason Bateman]

Though can I ask about like early early because you have a brother, right?

[Emma Stone]

I have a younger brother.

[Jason Bateman]

Close with your brother?

[Emma Stone]

Very, yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, that.

[Emma Stone]

Is he in the business the two of us? No, no, he works in at like a 10 tech company.

[Jason Bateman]

And growing up, was he interested or. No, he was just like you. You do that. I'm going to go over here.

[Emma Stone]

Not at all. He played football.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah. Where was home? Where did you grow up, Scott?

[Emma Stone]

Arizona.

[Jason Bateman]

Where? The poop.

[Sean Hayes]

With the poop. Remember? Remember earlier? That was the same conversation, huh? Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

How long have you been talking?

[Emma Stone]

Remember from before? It was like 20. What did you say earlier?

[Will Arnett]

And good thoughts, good feelings about Arizona. Do you miss it out there? You still have family out there?

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, I still have family out there. The thing about Arizona is it's so hot. It's so oppressively hot. It's difficult to. You need to be built for that kind of heat and I'm not.

[Sean Hayes]

It's not a fun heat.

[Emma Stone]

It's not a fun heat at all. It's like 120 degrees daily.

[Jason Bateman]

We're gonna. And I wanted to ask you this because we're gonna end on an industry business question.

[Emma Stone]

I love a bizarre.

[Sean Hayes]

I love the biz, the street. I love the biz, the street.

[Emma Stone]

I love the heatle of the buzz.

[Sean Hayes]

Yep.

[Jason Bateman]

When you, you know, a lot of people who win an Oscar like you did for La La Land, they. You were amazing. So deserved. I love that movie. I loved you in it. Did you A lot of people who win sometimes it's known as the curse of death with some actors.

[Will Arnett]

But first of all I should ask are you guys lost or before I

[Sean Hayes]

give you these, are you picture locked in La La Land because you got the Oscar. Great.

[Will Arnett]

But couple things were it me

[Sean Hayes]

and

[Jason Bateman]

it's just try it a little harder.

[Emma Stone]

I got some notes.

[Will Arnett]

Yeah, go show.

[Jason Bateman]

I was gonna say, how did you. Were you nervous? Did you have anxiety? You're like, oh my God, this is so great. I won the Oscar. But did you feel like. I don't know. A lot of times some actors who win Oscars, you kind of don't see them for a long time. Like years and years and years.

[Sean Hayes]

Were you.

[Jason Bateman]

Did you have anxiety about like, crap, I won. Now people are sick of me.

[Sean Hayes]

Nope. Nobody felt that way. Why?

[Jason Bateman]

Not that I was. No.

[Sean Hayes]

But just what kind of psycho first

[Will Arnett]

thought is put that out there.

[Emma Stone]

Okay.

[Sean Hayes]

Okay, Sean, what you tell us now

[Will Arnett]

I know how Sean felt when you won the Tony. Is that what you were saying when you walking up your stage to get

[Sean Hayes]

The Tony Sean off my list.

[Jason Bateman]

I know how.

[Emma Stone]

Thanks for having me today.

[Jason Bateman]

That came out wrong. What I meant was, like, did you have anxiety about, like, I'm not gonna work. People are like. People think. Must think. Like, oh, we. You made it.

[Emma Stone]

I left. This was a very lucky situation because I had. I met Yorgos while we were filming La La Land and I left the day after the Oscars to go shoot the favorite.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, that's great.

[Emma Stone]

So it was kind of amazing because the next day I went right back to work and was back in.

[Will Arnett]

Did you have time to renegotiate your deal on your way to location?

[Emma Stone]

Yes. So that was. I did delay my flight for a couple hours just to call. Just to call my lawyer.

[Will Arnett]

But by the way, that was reopened. Just the salary portion of new deal points.

[Sean Hayes]

That. I'd love to.

[Jason Bateman]

No, but by the way, that was a big compliment is what I know. Okay. Okay.

[Will Arnett]

How many great. Because you've been. You've been nominated, I'm sure, a million times for.

[Emma Stone]

I think it's a mil is a million.

[Will Arnett]

Lots of great awards. Do you have. Do you have. Do you have a bunch of great unused acceptance speeches?

[Sean Hayes]

No.

[Emma Stone]

What? No.

[Will Arnett]

I bet you do. No, but. No, but I bet. I bet you give some thought, some respectful time and some thought to what you would say up there. You're not one of these ingrates that would just. If I win, I win. I'll just go up there and wing it. It. I bet you've got some fun stuff that you said. I just. My dream is to have like a book, a coffee table book of people's unused acceptance speech.

[Emma Stone]

That's a great idea. That's a really good idea that maybe you should. Maybe you should start compiling it.

[Will Arnett]

Have to be anonymous, though, wouldn't it, Right? The. The people with this.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah, because I guess it would be. But then how do you do an anonymous acceptance speech? Everyone would know who it was. Like, the people they're thanking.

[Sean Hayes]

What were you gonna say for the Rocket Y.

[Will Arnett]

If you had gotten up there for your rocker, who would you thank first?

[Emma Stone]

Probably just Will.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Thanks for being our guest today.

[Emma Stone]

Thanks for having me.

[Sean Hayes]

No, but you did. You got nominated for. You got nominated for La La Land, which you won. You got nominated for the favorite.

[Will Arnett]

Favorite.

[Sean Hayes]

You got nominated for Silence. The Birdman. Is it the Birdman?

[Emma Stone]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Yes.

[Jason Bateman]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

And you had to work with Galifianakis.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, God, I know.

[Sean Hayes]

Is there a least. Is there. Is there a less talented guy in showbiz than Zach Galifianakis?

[Emma Stone]

You know, from. From your lips to God's ears.

[Sean Hayes]

I know. I couldn't agree more.

[Emma Stone]

He was. He was so. So sweet that whole time anyway. Yeah. No, he really is.

[Jason Bateman]

What are you gonna do for us tonight? And are you watching Golden Bachelor?

[Sean Hayes]

No.

[Emma Stone]

What's Golden Bachelor?

[Sean Hayes]

I love that answer. I love that answer.

[Emma Stone]

What is Golden Bachelor?

[Jason Bateman]

It's a bachelor, but an older town.

[Sean Hayes]

You should never know what it is. Emma Stone, this is why you are you. Because you don't know.

[Emma Stone]

I'm just out here breaking bones, getting sick, not watching Golden Bachelor. Well, now I'm gonna look it up.

[Sean Hayes]

You went through a phase. Sean went through a phase where he was breaking bones, right?

[Jason Bateman]

Yep. Early 20s Chicago.

[Sean Hayes]

Hey. Hey.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, God.

[Sean Hayes]

Hey, Emma, Cool it. All right.

[Emma Stone]

Okay, okay. Sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry.

[Jason Bateman]

Emma Stone, we're gonna let you go. We're gonna let you heal. We're gonna let you get better. We're gonna make you feel better. We're gonna. I'm gonna send some soup over.

[Emma Stone]

You don't need to send anything.

[Jason Bateman]

All right, good.

[Emma Stone]

It'll be okay.

[Sean Hayes]

Great.

[Jason Bateman]

And I won't do that. I just saved myself a call to my assistant, so

[Emma Stone]

thank you guys for having me. I'm sorry I was such a.

[Will Arnett]

You were talking about. You're, like, incredibly fast hours.

[Jason Bateman]

Huge, Huge, huge fan. Fan. Huge fan.

[Sean Hayes]

Best. Such a massive fan. You're such a. You're a. You're a. Literally, you're a mega talent.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Mega.

[Sean Hayes]

Yeah.

[Jason Bateman]

True.

[Emma Stone]

Truly, you guys.

[Will Arnett]

Emma.

[Emma Stone]

Thank you guys so much for having me.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

Hey, hey, Emma, one thing. I want you to remember one thing.

[Emma Stone]

Yeah.

[Sean Hayes]

And I. I hope you've lived by this credo. You can always say this to every. Any guy. If you want to be my lover first you got to get with my friends.

[Emma Stone]

Will.

[Jason Bateman]

If you want to be my lover. Okay, that was really weird, my friend.

[Sean Hayes]

Thank you.

[Emma Stone]

Thank you.

[Sean Hayes]

You're welcome.

[Will Arnett]

Based on Spice Girls.

[Emma Stone]

I will take that with me.

[Will Arnett]

Okay. Got it.

[Sean Hayes]

You're welcome.

[Emma Stone]

You not knowing that that was a Spice Girls lyric. That's one of the more painful things.

[Will Arnett]

Well, imagine what I thought, because I didn't know it was a lyric. I just thought he was just saying that stupid, crazy sentence. No, like what?

[Sean Hayes]

I was trying to connect with her.

[Emma Stone]

Did you just call the Spice Girls stupid and crazy?

[Will Arnett]

Not a lyric. If it was just as goodbye sentence for a podcast interview.

[Emma Stone]

This is where I log off.

[Will Arnett]

What about when James Cameron. When James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director of Titanic. I had not seen the movie, but when he walks up on stage, he says, I'm king of the world.

[Emma Stone]

Did you say you've never seen Titanic?

[Will Arnett]

At the time, I had not seen it. When I saw him go up on stage, I'm king of the world. I thought, oh, well, no. What did he just say?

[Sean Hayes]

I've never seen it. I don't.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah.

[Emma Stone]

Oh, my God. Because you got a lot of homework to do. Jason's listening to Wannabe by the Spice Girls. Will, you're watching Titanic. And Sean, just get, get Ricky, you

[Will Arnett]

know, fix your cat.

[Emma Stone]

Get him a little. Fix your cat.

[Will Arnett]

Emma, thank you for being here.

[Sean Hayes]

Thank you.

[Will Arnett]

Feel better.

[Emma Stone]

Thank you.

[Will Arnett]

Bye bye. Bye.

[Sean Hayes]

Bye.

[Will Arnett]

Good night.

[Sean Hayes]

Sean, you were right. Great.

[Jason Bateman]

She did it while she was sick. So nice for her to show.

[Sean Hayes]

Sick. Sick as a dog.

[Will Arnett]

This is worth, you know, when we do these late night records, it's, it's, you know, the, the, the high that it, that, that it. Be a good guest and you nail it.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, by the way, for the record, it was a 400pm Record. So when you say late night, for most people, then they have a different. Okay. But the other thing is, I will say this, and this is a compliment to you, jb. Not even a. I'm not. There's no punchline. She has a great work ethic. Like a lot of people I know who started young in, who were young in as actors, director, whatever. She has that same thing. And you have that same thing. Same thing, which is she's sick, blah, blah, blah. I. In all the years I've done stuff with you, I've never known you to call in sick, not once. Yeah.

[Will Arnett]

Oh, there was plenty of times when I'd clear my day when it, it was 3. 3am and I was still having fun.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, yeah. Back. Sorry. Except. Except for when you blew back in the day. Except for when you blew your colon out when we were doing that fight scene on Arrest Development. You did.

[Will Arnett]

You fought too hard. You broke my colon.

[Sean Hayes]

I know that's true. But anyway, she does have that great thing. She's always just, God, she's so good. When you start listening off the stuff that she does and they're all so different. You're like, yeah, when an actor has

[Will Arnett]

never sucked, that's something.

[Sean Hayes]

She's in that category. She's in that never sucked. I always say, John Goodman, number one. He's the first guy I always think of when I think has never sucked and she's in that category. There are few people who fall into that category. And she's one of the them.

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, she's incredible. I didn't get to ask her about. I want to talk more about La Land. About how it shot.

[Will Arnett]

Get ready.

[Jason Bateman]

Next time. Next time. Next time.

[Sean Hayes]

Honestly, nobody better.

[Will Arnett]

Here it comes. Who's got it?

[Jason Bateman]

Yeah, it. Well, I love Birdman too, you know.

[Will Arnett]

Okay, here it comes.

[Sean Hayes]

Oh, you know what I also like? Do you ever see Bye Bye Birdie? I couldn't even do it. I couldn't even. Of course you were going to do that.

[Jason Bateman]

You're fired by Bye Birdie.

[Will Arnett]

Wait, what a second. He can't just start saying that's.

[Sean Hayes]

It's just. It's. It's too.

[Will Arnett]

You're too tired. See, it's too late. It's too late to even come up with a buy.

[Sean Hayes]

Well, I was going to say this. I love that she got her name from the Baby Spice. Cuz she's such a fan of the Spice. Spice Girl. That's good.

[Will Arnett]

That'll do. Bye, everybody.

[Sean Hayes]

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[Jason Bateman]

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[Sean Hayes]

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[Jason Bateman]

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[Sean Hayes]

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[Jason Bateman]

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[Sean Hayes]

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