Emma Stone Gave Her Oscar to Her Mom but Displays Her Spelling Bee Champ Trophy

This is the first time I've seen you since the Oscars. Congratulations, you have an Oscar. Thanks. That's so great. It's so well-deserved. Where do you mind, I'm assuming you get asked this a lot, but where do you keep it? My mom has it. That's very sweet. Yes. Did she ask before she took it? No. OK, gotcha. No, she didn't. OK, nice. So do you have any? So you didn't want it in your own home? No, it felt a little strange. I have two things in my apartment that are related to that kind of idea, which is a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. Oh, wow. Which is an orange blimp that is also a kaleidoscope. That's fantastic. And my Spelling Bee trophy from the fourth grade. I got first place in the Spelling Bee. Wow. Yeah. That's really great. Thank you. Do you remember your winning word? I was trying to think about this for a little while. And what I remember it to be, I could be incorrect, was a compound word, which is microfinance. Microfinance. Go ahead. M-I-C-R-O-F-I-N-A-N-C-E. And now I have to give you my trophy. Yeah. The way, when you asked me to spell it, because I don't want to sound like a jerk, but that seems like a super easy word. It's a super easy word. I think I was also like 10 years old. But yeah, it was pretty easy. It was a pretty easy word. Yeah, I mean, what were people going out on? Mittens? Mittens was before it got blue. It was. That Josh and mittens, he couldn't handle it. Still can't wear mittens, he's so upset. You know Josh. This is very exciting that you got to work with Billie Jean King, because you actually spent time with her. Yes. And she was here last night. And you guys went to the US Open together. We did. And here is a photo of you guys enjoying each other's company, it seems like, right here. Really enjoying each other's company. You seem very happy right here. You're enjoying her so much, you want to obviously save it. So you can enjoy her on the road when she's not with you. But she said she's a very hard person to watch tennis with, because she can't stop talking about what she's seeing. But I think that's why she's a great person to watch tennis with. I would think the same. And I think I've mentioned this before, but there's no one on Billie Jean's other side. So it's just me, and she does live commentary the entire time. Oh, wow. Right in your ear. Really? And you did not mind? I did not mind. I was learning so much. Is she mostly happy with what she's seeing, or mostly not happy? It depends. Every emotion she's having goes in a live stream with a bunch of facts interspersed of what's actually happening. Does it ever go outside of tennis? Like, I'm hungry. Does that ever happen? I think, yeah. I mean, she's just enthusiastic. She's just running everything. She's very enthusiastic. I found her very inspiring. We were talking backstage. In our green room, Billie Jean King was just, anybody who walked by her, she would just grab and inspire. Like, she would walk by. She would, like, grab somebody. The person who was putting her mic on, she was like, do you like doing putting mics on? And she was like, I do. And she's like, follow your dreams. But if you ever stop liking it, you ever stop liking it, you go do something else. And I was like, wow, she just really wants to get. That's her in a nutshell. Yeah. She inspires everyone she meets. Yeah, she's wonderful. And you have never, this is the first time that you have played a real person. Yes. Correct. So La La Land, that means, was not based on a true story. It's not based on a true story. None of that happened. It didn't happen. OK, gotcha. I have driven a Prius before. That's close enough for me. So it's based on a true story. It's loosely based on a true story. What was it, did you find it, was it extra burdensome to play somebody who is real? I mean, yes, definitely. There's a fear factor that goes into that, because she's going to sit down and see it at the end. And knowing that is pretty daunting. Also, the fact that I didn't play tennis before playing Billie Jean. And when I went to meet her, there was that precedent. Like, hi, I'm an actress that's playing you that doesn't play tennis. And I'm super shy. And she was like, I'm super shy. You're playing me. You don't play tennis. What's going on? What was the scene when you first met Billie Jean King? I met her at her apartment. She lives in New York. And I mean, she was so sweet and warm and inspiring instantly. She really keys in on how to inspire you. So she brought me up to her apartment. And her partner Alana was there drinking out of a mug and said, it's good to be King. Fantastic. And I was like, it does seem pretty good to be King.