Oscar Winner Emma Stone Professes Respect for Carl Sagan and Declares: “I Believe in Aliens”
The two-time Oscar winner joined frequent collaborator and friend Yorgos Lanthimos and their team from Focus Features for their first Venice Film Fest Oscar Winner Emma Stone event.
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In her new film, Bugonia, Emma Stone plays a high-powered CEO of major company who is kidnapped by two rogue conspiracy theorists who believe her to be an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
During the press conference at the Venice Film Fest, a journalist asked whether the creative team believed that there are beings up above looking down on us humans.
“I don’t know about looking down on us,” Stone said, but claimed thaat she had adopted the belief system of the late scientist philosopher Carl Sagan. “I watched his show, Cosmos, and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be.
The idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe–not that we’re being watched but that we’re alone out here–is pretty narcissistic to think.”
The two-time Oscar winner joined frequent collaborator and friend Lamthimos, screenwriter Will Tracy, actor Jesse Plemons, and composer Jerskin Fendrix for the press conference, their first official Venice Film Fest event ahead of tonight’s world premiere.
Stone was polled on various subjects, including how she felt shaving her head (“So much easier than any hairstyle”), how she manages fame and success, and her feeling about working with Lanthimos on such demanding projects.
Bugonia, which also stars Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone, hits theaters in October.
The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.
