Emma Stone can still do Steve Martin's f-bomb speech from Planes, Trains And Automobiles
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Now, nobody is questioning the parenting style of Emma Stone’s father, let’s just get that straight. After all, the Cruella star has a more than healthy movie career going, a Best Actress Oscar, and a willingness to apologize for accepting roles she had no business playing. Still, as Stone related to Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, dad wasn’t interested in shielding the young Emma from his favorite R-rated movies in her childhood, regularly screening the Steve Martin oeuvre back from before he was America’s family-friendly father figure. After all, what 8-year-old wouldn’t appreciate The Jerk or Planes, Trains And Automobiles? (Dad’s fondness for sitting down to repeated watches of The Shawshank Redemption might be called into question, but, since it’s on a non-stop loop on cable, it’s not like anyone can escape it.)
Still, all that early Steve Martin exposure clearly left lasting effects on Stone, who, at Kimmel’s prompting, admitted that she’d committed perhaps the most memorable scene from Planes, Trains And Automobiles to memory as an impressionable child. And, since that speech is peppered with more “fucks” per minute than anything outside of Goodfellas, no doubt captive audiences of the young aspiring actress Emma Stone were treated to the undeniably adorable sight of a little girl spitting fire and f-bombs after her airport rental car company left her in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Does Stone remember it still? Just cue up the above clip to 5:45. Put on the spot by Kimmel (in what didn’t seem like a pre-planed bit), Stone centered herself as an irate, no-fucks-given Steve Martin and, with Kimmel essaying the role of the infuriatingly chipper rental car clerk (the great Edie McClurg, if you recall), Stone focused some laser eyes into the computer camera and let the “fucks” fly, verbatim. Basking in the glow of having uttered what Kimmel speculated were the most such “fucks” ever bleeped by the ABC censors, Stone recalled how, as a slightly younger Emma Stone, she’d had the habit of bursting into “completely, head-over-heels insane” tears whenever she ran into one of her childhood comedy idols, including, at one point, Martin. (Bill Murray, Diane Keaton, and Lorne Michaels also struck the budding star into mind-blown weeping.) Nowadays, one can only hope the Oscar winner would fix Martin with a steely gaze and tell him what a big fucking fan she is.
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Professional actress can do monologue. Great stuff.
Good point. But I absolutely love that movie. That’s it.
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She can also forge the signatures of all of the Spice Girls, if memory serves. Emma Stone is a veritable font of impractical talents.
…a veritable font of impractical talents.
Does this include playing an Asian woman?
She never made the six…
I saw that movie in the theater as a teen. Me and a buddy were talking before the movie, using R-rated language, not noticing that the guy in front of us had his kid with him. His about 6-year old kid. At an R-rated movie. We mostly didn’t notice the kid because his head was way below the seat level.So after a bit, the guy suddenly turns around and yells at us, “I’ve got my kid here! You two need to watch your language or I’m throwing you out of here.” (He actually said he would be throwing us out. Weird.)So after Martin gets done with his speech, I lean forward and say, “Good thing I’m watching my language.” Thought the guy was going to come over the seat at me. It would have been funny either way. Thanks, Steve.
This makes me think of something that happened to me on a plane a few years ago. Before the flight I was scrolling through the movie options to decide what I would like to watch. I came across Deadpool which I had not seen yet and decided on that. Shortly thereafter a 7-8 year old girl sat next to me, and her mother sat in the next seat over. Once we were airborne I started looking for a more child-friendly choice. After several minutes of this, I looked over and noticed the girl was watching Suicide Squad, and her mother didn’t seem to care at all. I went ahead and watched Deadpool.
I feel bad on planes for things that aren’t even movies. I sat next to a kindly looking grandmother one plane ride. I was reading “American Psycho” at the time. I was hoping against hope she wouldn’t strike up a conversation and ask what my book was about. Thankfully, she slept most of the time.
My entry in the “could you not have gotten a babysitter for your kid instead of taking them here” sweepstakes: Kill Bill Vol. 1. Hand to God.
I don’t find that surprising in the least.
I can top that. A woman with two single digit kids came into to see Saw. The manager, who was a friend of ours, later said he tried to explain to her what kind of movie it was, but she wasn’t having any of it. She fled almost immediately, once the cussing started.
Reminds me of the mother with kids in the theatre for A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas.I believe they left shortly after Paula Garcés delivered the line “Fuck a baby into me!” I think that was not even 10 minutes into the movie.
This is a while ago now, but I went to see an advance screening of Full Metal Jacket, which the theatre chain, in its wisdom, had figured might pair well with another movie they had going. That movie? Ernest Goes to Camp. The theatre was full of families there to see Ernest and this second feature they’d never heard of. Of course as the drill instructor announced his intention to gouge out people’s eyes and skull fuck them, the families began streaming out. All except one brave dad who kept his seat, his two small children seated beside him, for the entire movie.
Much tamer, but still memorable: my hometown theater decided to pair the pleasantly forgettable Andre (about the seal, remember? The seal movie? No? Doesn’t matter) with Forrest Gump. Remember Forrest Gump? With Forrest emulating sex sounds to the guy leaving his house? The jizz in the towel scene? People getting their legs blown off? Yeah, great times for my single-digit aged cousins.
That dad was probably inoculating his children to follow in his footsteps as a Marine.
Also, in the same line of thought, those kids had probably heard everything in that movie at least 50 times by that point.
Well those kids were pretty young as I recall! But maybe. As for the Marines, this was in Canada – we don’t have Marines.
Ahhhh. You’d like to think your experience was unique, wouldn’t you? Bwahahahaahahaahaha!Also, there are Marines in Canada. They’re just not Canadian and probably own a couple acres of Saskatchewan for their compound. We’re sorry.
That reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad took me to see “Back to the Beach” and we were early so he took me to an adjacent screen to watch a bit of a movie he’d been wanting to see – Robocop. It was the final scene – “Dick, you’re fired!”. It was the most violent thing I had seen in a movie – I was a fairly sheltered 10year old. But it was cool. My dad just turned to me and said, “We never saw this.”
I was maybe six, and we were at a video store looking for comedies, and I happened upon PTaA, and it looked good and I wanted to rent it, but my mom said, “Oh you can’t see that one. It has very bad words in it.” Even now, as an adult, when I watch this, I get a vicarious thrill watching something that has always had this aura of being forbidden, at least, to me.
I had a similar experience during a screening of South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. People were literally leaving the theater during the uncle fucker song. We ditched school to see the movie (my friends dad took us, we didn’t pay a homeless guy to get us in) It was so funny because the kids from South Park did the same thing to see the Terrance and Phillip movie. As soon as that song started, holy shit did that theater clear out. Except for us three, laughing like mental patients.
I’ve got my issues with South Park, but I always did really appreciate how the movie managed to pre-satirize the exact reaction they knew their movie was going to get.
It was pure gold
I threw this film on for my kids last holidays. I loved it as a kid. I saw that it was Rated R, and I said to myself “I don’t remember this being worthy of an R” and it’s not! Until it is. And as soon as this scene came up I kicked myself for forgetting it, not so much because I was worried for my kids, but more that I can’t believe I forgot one of the greatest scenes of my childhood. But, once it started I said to myself, “Let it ride.” kids thought it was hilarious.
There were several kids in front of us when we saw the original Halloween at our local theater a few years ago. My wife and I couldn’t believe it.
I worked at a movie theater in high school. One day, a couple fairly young kids came out and said they were watching a movie that ended (can’t remember which) and their parents said to come find them if their movie finished first. The parents, naturally, were watching Basic Instinct. Being a high schooler with only half a brain, I said “Okay, let’s go see if we can find them.”
Bad idea.
Very. Bad. Idea.
I hate that Steve Martin obscenity-fest scene. It was useless. It did nothing to advance the story. All it did was make me think the character was a dick – at a helpless cashier – who must still attend to his supremely privileged needs. She should have called security and had him removed. Then let him rant about the cavity search. To a judge. Fuckin’ hilarious. The worst of it is, I actually like the rest of the movie.
She should have called security and had him removed. Then let him rant about the cavity search. To a judge.
To a judge, eh? Because saying ‘fuck’ is illegal? And holy cow, have you ever had a cavity search?
I went to see the live musical “Hedwig And The Angry Inch” (not to be confused with the movie) with my wife in L.A. years back. We’re sitting there watching it and loving it, and about 10 minutes in, the woman behind us says, “What is this?!?!” and storms out. I’m really not sure how you can buy expensive tickets to the theatre without having some idea of what you’re in for, especially something like Hedwig, but she did.Best line of the show was the opening when Hedwig says, “So nice to be performing today in the formerly Hetero- then Homo- and now Pan-tages Theatre.” Awesome.
Yep, I saw Man on Fire in a theatre with what looked like a mother and an eight year old. In a movie about a roaring rampage of revenge. For the abduction and presumed slaughter of a child.
for an actress that doesn’t participate in social media she also knows how to go viral on social media during film promotions. clever cruella.
Oh I didn’t know that about her, since I myself am not terribly in the know with celebrities and social media. Good for her. Probably easier when you’re incredibly famous already though.
“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is an absolutely fantastic movie. Criminally underrated by many people. It is so much more than Martin’s fantastic tirade.
It is a fantastic movie with (in my opinion) a terrible ending. My wife and I watch it every Thanksgiving after the kids are in bed. The ending always feels like such a downer after all of the hilarity that precedes it.
I saw it for the first time a few years ago and about halfway through, I thought SPOILER ALERT ON A 40 YEAR OLD MOVIE“oh no, the wife’s dead, isn’t she?”
I love the ending. And I don’t think anyone but John Candy could have played that part and nailed that revelatory line.(And then, it’s not a complete downer. It’s not like Martin just leaves him there…)
That’s actually not the worst part for me. I can deal with the dead wife. What I can’t stand is the incredibly cheesy/awkward scene where John Candy and Steve Martin’s wife meet each other.
I cannot not see Kathleen Turner in that photo.
I was thinking Sadie Sink.
I’ve complained about this before but I just can’t get over the fact that it has been over a year of this and people who do multiple on-air interviews still don’t have decent mics?
There are so many people involved in getting someone on a talk show from the talent to the agents, the pr people, the behind the camera people, the assistants, and so on and yet all of them agree, “fuck it, we’ll let this person go on national tv sounding like shit.”
It’s a valid point, but I wonder if it’s a choice. Humanizes the guest, they have the same Zoom issues as I have, cozy and relatable.
as a non-Human, i feel your comment discriminates against me.
She still does that?
So?
Breaking: Actor Remembers Lines From Movie
but can she convincingly play a british person
Huh, all this time I thought it was Helena Bonham Carter who was playing Cruella not Emma Stone.
That’s a good one but this is still my favorite fuck-laden scene in a movie:
“Well that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word” is the best response ever.
Agreed. That movie is so awesome. It’s a shame the butchered the second one.
I’ve got to go with this…
Holy shit. Did Jodie Foster get some work done?
Was it some kind of intra-office challenge to find the one unflattering photo/still of one of Hollywood’s most strikingly beautiful faces?
I remember sitting in a movie theater once behind a woman and two small, restless children who clearly didn’t want to be there. The movie? Hotel Rwanda.
“And that’s what will happen to you kids if you don’t behave!”
I fucking love Emma Stone. Her, and Jennifer Lawrence. Apparently they are buddies. Oh, to sit at the table with them over dinner and copious drinks.
Because Hollywood ran out of ideas about 20+ years ago, they’re re-making “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.” With Will Smith and Kevin Hart.Can’t wait to miss it!
Put on the spot by Kimmel (in what didn’t seem like a pre-planed [sic] bit)Uhh… she’s talking about meeting actors she admires and Kimmel’s follow up is “Did you ever practice scenes from their movies as a kid?” This is 100% planned from the pre-interview. It’s still fun, but she definitely wasn’t put on the spot.
Glad to see an Asian actress having so much success.
Have I mentioned how much I hate the term “F-bomb”? It’s just a fucking word, people, not an actual piece of explosive ordnance. I’ve heard (and seen) real bombs, and they sound completely different. Plus, the term is cutesy as fuck.
This was just her pitch for a gender-swapped PT&A remake