Emma Stone explains her favorite Saturday Night Live sketch that didn’t make the air

Emma Stone just joined an elite group of actors who have multiple Oscars under their belt, but as of last year she’s also part of another exclusive coterie, the Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club. Stone has a number of iconic sketches you may remember—“I Broke My Arm,” crying to Adele’s “Someone Like You,” or “Wells for Boys,” co-written by comedian Julio Torres (and directed by Stone’s future husband, Dave McCary). Ahead of Torres’ new movie Problemista, which Stone produced, the pair sat down for a conversation on The A24 Podcast to discuss his career and their SNL collaborations, including the one that got away.

“Julio and I talked about this Silver woman, and he’s like, ‘She’s… having like this, slow motion mental breakdown. You know, it’s like Nicole Kidman in Birth,’” Stone recalled. “And it was a very dramatic performance, as it is in most of your work, like Tilda [Swinton] in Problemista, or like in ‘The Actress,’ which is another one that we did for SNL. None of this is taken lightly. Like, your approach to comedy is like, while it might be absurdist …you have to believe it with your whole heart, and it has to be life or death.”

The Poor Things star continued, “But the idea is that she’s having a dinner party, and she brings out her silver—her silverware. And she can hear the silver. … It’s driving her insane because when someone’s taking a bite of something she can hear the fork scream. Like, she can hear the pain of the ladle. You know, like, what they’re going through, in order to serve these like well-to-do people. She’s deeply empathetic to her silver. And it was so genius, and I really, I just did not Kidman enough. I really didn’t. And I want another chance. I want another crack at ‘Silver Woman.’” You heard the woman: give her another chance!