Emma Stone, who may just be America’s new sweetheart, is the holy grail of a Hollywood starlet. She’s smart, funny, outspoken and, yes, beautiful. But sometimes only that last trait is important to the media, and Stone is fed up with it.
In a recent interview, she had some clever (and depressingly acute) observations about the questions her boyfriend Andrew Garfield is asked in interviews, as opposed to the ones she gets. See a clever GIF (created by Kaye Toal over at Upworthy) reflecting their discussion here!
Funny enough, this conversation apparently happened during an interview with Teen Vogue, in which Emma was asked about things like clothes and her relationship. While it’s kind of fun to occasionally hear about the more flippant details of stars’ lives, I’d much rather get a look into how they feel about more serious issues.
Props to Teen Vogue for still running the above quote, but let’s try and learn something from it, too! Emma Stone is a brilliant woman and actress, and I suspect (or at least hope) that her outspokenness will have a positive influence on the entertainment industry. [via Upworthy]
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she’s brilliant for pointing that out to everyone!
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Well Teen Vogue isn’t a magazine full of deep discussions with America’s intellectually elite but I totally get what she means. Glad she’s not just shutting up about it.
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I suppose going by celebrity standards, pointing out obvious facets of the media–in this case double standards–can be consider pretty “clever”
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I love her <3
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BUT I REALLY WANNA KNOW WHO DOES HER HAIR!
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It is sexist, and that’s a good point. However, I don’t think the solution is to ask more serious questions to female stars, I think the serious questions should be cut out altogether.
“While it’s kind of fun to occasionally hear about the more flippant
details of stars’ lives, I’d much rather get a look into how they feel
about more serious issues.”
Stars ARE the more flippant details of our lives. They are objects of entertainment, and they get paid out the ass for it.
The ones who think everyone should care about their opinions on serious issues are conceited and make fools out of themselves. The entertainment industry does not mix well with politics or anything else important, but people just try SO hard to make it happen.
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Why would you care about how some actress feels about “serious issues”? The fact that we think Brad Pitt’s take on the peace talks in the middle east is more important than oh say… a UN official’s take… is pretty ludicrous to me.
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Well the media is not to be taken seriously. I think the only way to be seen as a credible person is to be out of the camera’s focus. To be away from the media’s glare altogether. Since Emma Stone is Hollywood’s darling child she is always in their center vision. I do understand her perspective in being taken as an intelligent person aside from her celebrity status. Unfortunately the media does not see it that way. They see these celebrities as props to be played around. They care less if the props have brains or a voice. All the media cares about is how powerful they feel to everybody else. Which is why they control what we think, how we act, and how we look. Most of us follow that mentality and do not think about anything else. Some other people break out of that sheep like thinking and change the world.
I think Emma Stone is trying to break the mold. However slowly it’s happening. I think it’s time to stop the media brainwashing and speak out loud. We have voices. We have to be heard.
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@Endrath@xanga - I think it’s because Americans hold celebrities so high up on the pedestal. We care about their views on the world. I do not understand why we do. I speculate it’s because we expect them to think like real people do. We want them to care about the world, and not just their own little circles. Though many times they do not. We feel disappointed when we knew all along.
I now think of celebrities as people who just happen to act or sing for a living. That’s all they are to me. When I want some expert knowledge; I will just go to the brains behind the operation. They are the ones in the know.
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If I were ever famous, and was asked questions like that for magazines, I’d just start saying random things, that make no sense whatsoever.
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@angelwingfive@xanga -
“Tell us your thoughts on our struggling economy”
“AH, I thzeenk I has the solution: width times height!!!”
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I don’t know if she’s necessarily brilliant but seems to somewhat think for herself which is a start.
I wonder what she got paid to talk to teen vogue about her style icon. I’m pretty sure I’d take the paycheck and they could ask whatever without me complaining even once. I doubt teen vogue covers many serious topics except maybe how to deal with STD issues and your parents.
Men still get all sorts of inane questions in similar magazines such as: what is your ideal woman, what turns you on, who is your favorite singer/band… So maybe it’s not sexism. Maybe she’s not looking at the interview in context, it was for teen vogue after all, not Time Magazine.
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@Manic_Butterflies@xanga - “Stars ARE the more flippant details of our lives. They are objects of entertainment, and they get paid out the ass for it.”
Well said!!!
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@millionofstars@xanga - I’m American and I don’t give a crap what celebrities think. The media does though.
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@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - Hey I don’t care either. Of course the media cares because they want people to turn away from experts, and glue our faces to the screens of celebrities’ mouths.
I rather look towards the people with brains and the smarts to tell us what’s happening.
They are the ones I look up to.
Now I love physicists and look up to them.
Mainly scientists in general.
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Emma Stone didn’t graduate high school.