Jesse Eisenberg Tells The Story of Emma Stone's ZOMBIELAND Audition - "That Person Is A Genius"
Emma Stone has come a long way since appearing in the teen comedy Superbad. While she was great in that film, it was the movie Zombieland that really launched her acting career into a whole new stratosphere.
Stone’s Zombieland co-star Jesse Eisenberg recently recalled what it was like reading with Stone during her audition and talked about what she did to blow the creative team away.
He said: “I was already cast in the movie, so I was auditioning like many people for her part that day. The actors at that point were all amazing actresses, but they were all, like, trying to get into the movie, and so they were being really polite and everything.”
He goes on to say how Stone stood out from the rest of the actresses that were auditioning and it involved making fun of him.
Eisenberg went on to say: “And then [Stone] came in, and she just started making fun of me in the scene, like just assaulting me with insults in the scene and it was so funny.
“They were so quick and so funny and cutting. And she left the room and I just felt so, so small. We were like, ‘Oh my God. That person is a genius.’
“And maybe she was 19 even at that time of the audition. I mean, she's a truly spectacularly, unusually brilliant person.”
That’s definitely one way to make an impression, and it worked. Her quirky and magnetic personality landed her the role, and the rest is history.
Source: The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw (via People)