The trajectory of Emma Stone’s young career is a steep one, spiking from her screen debut as Jonah Hill’s dream girl in Superbad (2007) to her iron-willed Wichita in last year’s Zombieland — both films that opened No. 1 at the box office. A couple of Stone’s films in between — The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past didn’t fare too poorly either. So the 21-year-old’s new film Paper Man arrives next week as a bit of a surprise (and not just because of its half-decade in development hell): A quirky, conscientious indie dramedy about writer Richard Dunn (Jeff Daniels) and the superhero imaginary friend (Ryan Reynolds) who exasperatedly shepherds him through the mid-life crisis blocking more than just Richard’s second novel. Stone plays Abby, a sardonic teenage loner with a suspicious pal of her own (Kieran Culkin) and an instant kind of psychic appeal to the struggling author. It may not be her biggest film role to date, but in the folds of her small-town inertia and the haunted past rolling across her face like cloud shadows, it’s inarguably her most dynamic. In addition to teasing the raunchy work her costars Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet performed in Untitled Comedy , Stone recently spoke with Movieline about falling in love with her role, hypothermia, catharsis, and why she’s not as intense an actor as you might think.
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The Verge: Emma Stone
