oscar-winner Emma Stone is with us now
we were just chatting like girlfriends
she stars as Billie Jean King in the new
movie battle of the sexes it's the story
of king's epic tennis match against
Bobby Riggs that had an impact well
beyond the court take a look
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keep dogged Bobby more nonsense you
spell the worse is gonna be when you
lose y Milady's number one I'm the champ
why would I lose cuz datasource can't
play tennis
I'm gonna put the show back in
chauvinism I'm a good morning I just saw
the movie it's amazing before we get to
the movie I was watching you just did a
late night appearance recently and you
dropped several f-bombs and I was just
wondering when you took it do I need to
get my bleep er out did I drop several
laughs there's the bleep er you let me
try again live oh I know I can't get it
I can't think about thinking of there
she goes to go there I go again uh tell
me about how you got involved in this
movie because I mean you were - you
weren't even born yet when this match
happened I don't even remember it yeah
did you know right away what this was
all about or did you have to kind of do
your homework you know there was
definitely a learning curve I am I had
met with the producer of the movie Danny
Boyle a couple years ago and then I'm
and then I met Jon and Val the directors
and they were just incredible I loved
his script and learning about Billy gene
was you know she's she's an absolute
icon and now we know her as this hero
for equality and LGBTQ rights but at 29
which she also had you know was number
one in the world and did this battle of
the sexes she was also struggling with a
lot of things internally in her personal
life and so the story was so fascinating
and you know we stand on her shoulders
so it was it was really a huge honor to
get to try attempt to play her it's such
a great and meaty role there's so much
to tackle what did you think the first
time when you saw that when you looked
in the mirror and you saw yourself as
Billie Jean because it's a
transformation well it took a while but
I felt like an immediate looking in the
mirror we were it was a lot of learning
tennis a lot of weightlifting a lot of
you know things that I had really never
done um but the team of people around me
that were supporting me through that
were were unbelievable there's no way I
would have been able to do it without at
least a dozen people helping and to get
Billie Jean's physique I heard you you
had to kind of become like a gym rat
yeah were you doing p90x and protein
shakes and I was doing protein shakes I
wasn't doing few no the excited trainer
named Jason Walsh and he's he's
incredible he bulked me up more than I
ever thought it would be possible and I
was deadlifting and sled pulling and
yeah it was really it got pretty
addictive what about the tennis I mean
because you I know there are some
doubles but you just you do play some
tennis in this I mean it was it was that
was another major learning curve I had a
really amazing coach named Vince media
and he he got me became kind of
choreography like learning all of her
specific you know her specific serve her
one-handed backhand learning on a wooden
racket did you watch her matches I know
yeah he had a big time yeah we were
watching her matches constantly and and
her interviews and every I mean it was
yeah it's just fall steeping in Billy
Dee you know you're like filly Jane I'm
I'm a bit of a creepy stalker now I am a
complete stalker it is my job did she I
think I read that you actually played
some tennis with her that she was yeah
lobbying ballsy and and having met her
now cuz she was just on the show
yesterday I couldn't just wish she like
a drill sergeant but she working on your
or she what she night really wasn't
she's such a great coach that she sort
of immediately gets the gauge of the
people that she's around and asks a lot
of questions and just keyed in on all
right you can dance that means you know
footwork now run it she would just throw
the ball at my face and I'd like move to
the ball and get my footwork down but it
helped me so much to start out with her
doing that with me it was it was um
she's the best she is she's the best you
are you 28 or 29 now I'm 20 I'll be 29
in a couple weeks okay you're almost 29
you've won the Oscar this year you are
said to be one of the highest-paid
actresses in Hollywood you actually are
a nice and normal person how do you keep
your head on straight
I mean to an extent I keep my head on
straight I'm also like you're like no
I'm inseparable
come on the verge of a breakdown no I I
I have my my mom my family
my friends are all they could care less
if this was happening or that was
happening they treat me exactly the same
and they all make fun of me and I love
it so it's pretty hard not to you know
just be around great people and I think
in general part of it is that you're an
Arizona girl like me you know there's
other girls it's a certain breed
but that's another segment thank you so
much me so battle of the sexes hits
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