Emma Stone has opened up about how her dress ended up ripped before she went on stage at the 2024 Oscars.
The movie saw the actor receive a standing ovation at Venice Film Festival where it first premiered, people in awe of her portrayal of Frankenstein-esque character Bella Baxter, a young woman who passes away only to be revived by surgeon Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) who replaces her brain with that of a baby’s.
And the 35-year-old actor ended up winning the award and taking to the stage to give her acceptance speech.
However, while making her way onto the stage, Stone could be seen mouthing her dress was ‘broken’ – something she also noted before beginning her acceptance speech – and she’s since revealed the moment she believes the seam on her Louis Vuitton dress gave way.
“I’m so excited for Ryan and he just absolutely crushed it,” she said. “So it was a blast, so it was worth the dress rip, you know?”
Stone joked she just got up on stage and didn’t know if she was ‘naked’ but ‘hope[d] not’ and carried on with the show.
Indeed, the actor went on with her speech to say: “Oh boy, this is really overwhelming. Sorry. OK, my voice is also a little gone, whatever. The women on the stage you are all incredible and the women in this category. Sandra, Annette, Carey, Lily, I share this with you, I’m in awe of you and it has been such an honor to do all this together, I hope we get to keep doing more together.”
The actor recalled something Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos told her about taking herself ‘out of it’ to stop ‘panicking’.
“And he was right, because it’s not about me, it’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part about making movies, is all of us together and I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member, every crew member, with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film,” she continued.
Stone then addressed Lanthimos again, thanking him for the ‘gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter’ as well as her family and husband and ‘most importantly’ her daughter too.
The actor added in her interview with Good Morning America after the ceremony that she’d since been sewed ‘back in’ to the dress.
Oscars 2024 Winners
Best director
Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – WINNER
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
Best actor
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Best actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller – Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Emma Stone – Poor Things – WINNER
Best picture
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best supporting actress
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers – WINNER
Best animated short
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko – WINNER
Best animated feature
The Boy and the Heron – WINNER
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
Best adapted screenplay
American Fiction – WINNER
Best make-up and hairstyling
Best production design
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best costume design
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best international feature
The Zone of Interest – WINNER
Best supporting actor
Sterling K Brown – American Fiction
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Best visual effects
Godzilla Minus One – WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Best film editing
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best documentary short
The Barber of Little Rock
The Last Repair Shop – WINNER
Best documentary feature
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
20 Days in Mariupol – WINNER
Best live action short
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – WINNER
Best cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best sound
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Best original score
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best original song
‘The Fire Inside’ – Flamin’ Hot (Diane Warren)
‘I’m Just Ken’ – Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
‘It Never Went Away’ – American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)’ – Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George)
‘What Was I Made For?’ – Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell) – WINNER