Emma Stone made a far-out admission while promoting her latest project at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.
During a press conference for her new black comedy, “Bugonia,” the Oscar winner had a surprising answer when questioned about one of the film’s central themes: aliens.
In the film, her fifth collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, she plays a CEO who is kidnapped by an employee who believes she is an extraterrestrial set on destroying the earth.
Asked if she thought there was an “ultimate intelligence looking down on us” from somewhere beyond our planet, Stone cited the work of late astronomer and science philosopher Carl Sagan.
“I don’t know about looking down on us, but ... one of my favorite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan, and I watched his show ‘Cosmos,’ and I fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be,” Stone said in a clip shared by The Hollywood Reporter.
