Young Emma Stone Was DESPERATE To Move To L.A | The Graham Norton Show

Since we last saw you, Emma Stone, on this show, you went and won an Oscar. Well done, you. Yes! And there's, you know, often people in those pitches go, you know, oh, I never dreamt of this moment. But you did more than dream of this moment. I mean, you planned this. It wasn't that specific. Not for that movie. To be fair. No, I mean, what you mean, just like in terms of my childhood... Yes, when you made your pitch to your parents. Yes. I've... This is... This story will never die. But I love it. How old were you when you did it? Because it's amazing. I was 14. I was almost 15. And I made a PowerPoint presentation for my parents. But this is... So you wanted to move to L.A. And they didn't want you to go. They weren't going to let you move. Is that it? Well, no. They didn't... They hadn't even heard the idea yet. Oh, I see. It was just like, I realise if I'm going to... You know, we lived about a six-hour drive from L.A. in Phoenix, Arizona. And I realised I couldn't just come home in my freshman year of high school, which is what? Grade nine? Ninth grade? Sure. Okay. And I realised I couldn't just walk in and go like, I'm a-movin'. I'm 14 and here I go. So I decided to make a PowerPoint presentation about why it would be a good idea for me to move to Los Angeles and follow my big dreams. But you went to it. Like it had music and everything. Yeah. It had this song, Hollywood by Madonna. Were you in a sensible pantsuit? I should have been in a sensible pantsuit. I think I was in my high school... I went to an all-girls Catholic high school, so I think I was in a plaid skirt and a collared shirt. And so Madonna's playing, and then what? You just had a series of reasons why you should go to Los Angeles? A series of reasons why this would be a good idea, not just at any time, but now. And for some reason, it did eventually, it worked. And I would punish my child if they had done that, but they believed in me, those freaks. But it is true that the presentation ended with... Let me go? What? No, didn't it end with... You probably remember more about it than I do. Well, doesn't it end, it ends with you putting up the picture and it says, Emma Stone, actress, best act... Was it best actress? No! No, didn't it end with... Who told you that? It ended with you winning an Oscar. First of all, my name is Emily, so there's no way it said Emma. Okay, okay. And then... No! So you didn't say you were going to win an Oscar? Why are we telling this story? No! So the whole point of this... That's crazy. I don't... Well, it's quite crazy anyway, but... It is crazy. It's crazy is not the word, but that would have made it like, absolutely, she's going somewhere, and it's not there, it's somewhere else. Oh, well, you won an Oscar, there you go. Well done.