Emma Stone Jokingly Calls Taylor Swift ‘an A—hole’ at Golden Globes

Emma Stone won not only a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in Poor Things on Sunday night – the award for best backstage moment also went to the quick-witted actor.

When a reporter in the press room asked what Stone thought about longtime friend Taylor Swift cheering so loudly for her in the audience, Stone strolled up to the mic and deadpanned, “What an a–hole, am I right?”

After the laughter died down, Stone continued on a more serious note. “I’ve known her for almost 20 years and I was very happy she was there. She was also nominated tonight which was wonderful and, yes, what an a–hole.”

Watch Stone and the Poor Things filmmakers’ backstage interview below.

Stone is on a roll this awards season, with a performance Rolling Stone calls “a showcase” for the actor. “[Stone] rapidly goes from preverbal toddling to childlike wonder to restless adolescence, all while remaining a grown woman unaware of the chain reactions around her. Her performance displays the balance and dexterity of a chainsaw juggler.” 

In a recent roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter Stone revealed that she and the cast spent weeks preparing for the film in an unusual way. “You’re doing games where you’re all kind of tied together. True theater games,” said Stone. “Everyone has to shut their eyes and walk around, and one person is assigned to put a chair under them as they sit. It is just completely silly. You embarrass yourself in front of each other and then you get really close, really quickly. So by the time you’re on set, you feel like you know each other really well, and you can experiment and be free and make fun of each other. And it’s no eggshell experience with your other actors, which is really, really helpful.”

At the Venice Film Festival, earlier in the year, director Yorgos Lanthimos discussed collaborating with Stone on the weird, wild sex scenes in the Frankenstein-inspired film. “We had to be confident, and the character had to have no shame, and Emma had to have no shame about her body, nudity, engaging in those scenes,” he said at the press conference. “She understood that right away. The great thing about myself and Emma is that now we’ve completed four films together, so there’s a shorthand. We can communicate without having to explain everything or talk too much about things.”

Lanthimos added, “Especially for the sex scenes, we sat down with Emma and decided, ‘What kind of position do we do here?’ ‘What kind of thing there?’ ‘What’s missing?’ ‘What from the experience of sex, and the different desires people have, do we need to portray just to make this enough of a presentation of human desire and its idiosyncrasies.’ It was important for all of us to have that be a part of the film and not shy away from it. And it’s also very fun sometimes.”

Emma Stone won not only a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in Poor Things on Sunday night – the award for best backstage moment also went to the quick-witted actor.

When a reporter in the press room asked what Stone thought about longtime friend Taylor Swift cheering so loudly for her in the audience, Stone strolled up to the mic and deadpanned, “What an a–hole, am I right?”

After the laughter died down, Stone continued on a more serious note. “I’ve known her for almost 20 years and I was very happy she was there. She was also nominated tonight which was wonderful and, yes, what an a–hole.”

Watch Stone and the Poor Things filmmakers’ backstage interview below.

Stone is on a roll this awards season, with a performance Rolling Stone calls “a showcase” for the actor. “[Stone] rapidly goes from preverbal toddling to childlike wonder to restless adolescence, all while remaining a grown woman unaware of the chain reactions around her. Her performance displays the balance and dexterity of a chainsaw juggler.” 

In a recent roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter Stone revealed that she and the cast spent weeks preparing for the film in an unusual way. “You’re doing games where you’re all kind of tied together. True theater games,” said Stone. “Everyone has to shut their eyes and walk around, and one person is assigned to put a chair under them as they sit. It is just completely silly. You embarrass yourself in front of each other and then you get really close, really quickly. So by the time you’re on set, you feel like you know each other really well, and you can experiment and be free and make fun of each other. And it’s no eggshell experience with your other actors, which is really, really helpful.”

At the Venice Film Festival, earlier in the year, director Yorgos Lanthimos discussed collaborating with Stone on the weird, wild sex scenes in the Frankenstein-inspired film. “We had to be confident, and the character had to have no shame, and Emma had to have no shame about her body, nudity, engaging in those scenes,” he said at the press conference. “She understood that right away. The great thing about myself and Emma is that now we’ve completed four films together, so there’s a shorthand. We can communicate without having to explain everything or talk too much about things.”

Lanthimos added, “Especially for the sex scenes, we sat down with Emma and decided, ‘What kind of position do we do here?’ ‘What kind of thing there?’ ‘What’s missing?’ ‘What from the experience of sex, and the different desires people have, do we need to portray just to make this enough of a presentation of human desire and its idiosyncrasies.’ It was important for all of us to have that be a part of the film and not shy away from it. And it’s also very fun sometimes.”