Emma Stone

About

Emma Stone is an American actress best known for portraying Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Skeeter Phelan in The Help (2011). Online Stone has developed a fan following based on her goofy, down to earth persona similar to the fandom surrounding Jennifer Lawrence.

Acting Career

Stone began her acting career^[1] as a contestant on the 2004 reality show In Search of the New Partridge Family. She won the lead role of Laurie Partridge, but a reboot of The Partridge Family never aired. Her first film role came in the 2007 comedy Superbad. She starred in several more films in the late 2000s including Easy A (2010), Zombieland (2009) and Crazy, Stupid Love (2011). Her performance in The Help (2011) earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical). She also appeared as Gwen Stacy in the new Spiderman film franchise The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

Online History

Jim Carrey’s Message to Emma Stone

Jim Carrey’s Message to Emma Stone was a satirical video produced by Canadian actor and comedian Jim Carrey in which he expresses his love for Stone. It has been rumored to have been a viral marketing gimmick for his website Jim Carrey TruLife.^[1] The video was subject to a number of remixes and was parodied by other celebrities. On August 24th, 2011, Jim Carrey uploaded a video of himself apparently confessing his love and lust for actress Emma Stone. This straight-faced monologue was first uploaded onto Vimeo as a private video and publicly posted on Jim Carrey’s newly-launched website Jim Carrey TruLife.^[2]

Meanwhile, Emma Stone also created a new YouTube account “EmmaStoneVerified” and re-uploaded Carrey’s video message onto her channel with the following comment:

See it on my official website http://EmmaStone.me – I was a huge Jim Carrey fan. Now I’m not sure if I should be flattered, or seek an order for protection? ;) lol

Paparazzi Photos

On September 15th, 2012, Stone noticed she was being photographed by paparazzi^[8] while with her boyfriend actor Andrew Garfield in New York City. The two created cardboard signs which they held over their faces so the photographers would capture the messages. The signs highlighted two charities, the Worldwide Orphans Foundation and Gildasclubnyc (which supports cancer patients in honor of the late comedian Gilda Radner) and read:

“We just found out that there were paparazzi outside the restaurant we were eating in. ’So… why not take this opportunity to bring attention to organizations that need and deserve it. wwo.org gildasclubnyc.org”

The photo was covered by many websites including The Huffington Post^[9] and E! Online.^[10]

On June 17th, 2014, Stone and Garfield were again photographed^[11] holding signs highlighting charities, this time highlighting Youth Mentoring Connection and Autism Speaks, as well as the two charities they highlighted in 2012.

Lip Sync Battle

On April 28th, 2014, a video was uploaded to the official The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon YouTube channel^[12] which featured a clip from the previous night’s show during which Jimmy Fallon and Stone participate in a lip sync battle. The clips was covered by many sites including Vulture^[13] and E!Online.^[14] In less than two months the video gained over 23.8 million views.

Fandom

As of June 2014, Stone’s Facebook page^[3] has over 350,000 likes. Fans have created several Tumblr blogs dedicated to her including emma-stone-daily^[5], emmastone^[6] and fuckyeahemmastone.^[7]DeviantArt^[4] has over 5,000 fan art submissions featuring Stone as of June 2014.