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| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 12:51 AM PDT Emma Stone has been on a steady rise in Hollywood, charming audiences everywhere. EMMA Stone has gone from layperson to expert on the two publishing sensations she's helping to bring to Hollywood this summer and next. Stone had not read Kathryn Stockett's The Help before auditioning for the lead role in the drama about a white woman who rocks the Deep South establishment by chronicling the hard lives of black maids in the early 1960s. And before earning the female lead in The Amazing Spider-Man, Stone knew the Marvel Comics superhero mainly from Sam Raimi's three past big-screen "Spidey" adventures and glimpses of the web-slinger on memorabilia. "I knew Spidey from Halloween costumes and Band-Aids and erasers and pencils and notebooks," Stone, 22, said in an interview at last week's Comic-Con fan convention, where she and star Andrew Garfield joined the filmmakers to reveal footage of the 2012 summer blockbuster-in-waiting. "I knew that every little boy at school was obsessed with Spidey. I saw all the Sam Raimi movies, but I had not read the comics until I got involved. And now I'm a ridiculously enormous 'Spider-Man' fan. That's what happens. That character is one of the most incredible characters, I think, ever written, comic-book world or literary world. It's just such an inspirational character. I think that's probably the reason he's the president's favourite superhero." Stone has been on a steady rise in Hollywood, co-starring in 2007's teen romp Superbad and 2009's horror comedy Zombieland, then charming audiences with her first big-screen lead in last year's The Scarlet Letter twist Easy A. After supporting roles in back-to-back romantic comedies in the United States with last week's Friends With Benefits and this week's Crazy Stupid Love, Stone's profile shoots higher with the August debut of The Help, co-starring Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard and Octavia Spencer. Stone recalled being as much a novice on The Help as she had been on Spider-Man. She was about to meet with the filmmakers for the first time and happened to give her mum a call. "I've got a meeting tonight for The Help," Stone told her mother. "And she screamed so loud my eardrums burst. She said, 'You've got to read this book! You have to go and read this book right now!' My mother is, like, she fainted, she was so beside herself." The Help is expected to be a summer hit driven by the best-seller's female fans, a rarity in a season dominated by action tales and comedies aimed largely at young males. As Gwen Stacy, the romantic interest for Garfield's Peter Parker in next July's Spider-Man reboot, Stone will be in the thick of a fan-boy frenzy. Yet the fact that Peter's a skinny, bullied kid who leaps to hero status through the bite of a mutant spider makes him an idol for everyone, not just comic-book and action fans, Stone said. "Batman's great, but this isn't a rich guy building a suit. And Superman's great, but this isn't an untouchable guy like we've never seen before on this planet," Stone said. "This is someone you could go to school with and work with, that all of sudden, one day is able to fight off superhuman villains. It's pretty incredible. I get it now. I really do." – AP ■ The Help only gets to Malaysian cinemas in October. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
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