Emma Stone declares she believes in aliens: 'I’m coming out with it!'
'The idea that we're alone is a pretty narcissistic thing to think'
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Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone isn’t afraid to admit it — she believes in aliens.
In her upcoming film Bugonia, her latest collaboration with her Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos, Stone plays a powerful CEO who becomes the target of two conspiracy-obsessed men who are convinced that she’s an alien.
So it was inevitable that during her appearance at the Venice Film Festival to promote the title, the 36-year-old actress would be asked about her belief in extraterrestrial life. But when the question came, she boldly replied that it is “pretty narcissistic” to think human beings are alone in the universe.
“I don’t know about looking down on us. One of my favourite people that has ever lived is (astronomer and planetary scientist) Carl Sagan. I watched his show, Cosmos, and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be. He very deeply believed that the idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe — truly not that we’re being watched but that we’re alone out here — is a pretty narcissistic thing to think. So yes I’m coming out with it, I believe in aliens. Thank you!” she said flashing a smile.
Another journalist kept the supernatural theme going when they asked her how she handles success without “turning into an alien.”
“How do you know I’m not an alien?” Stone cryptically replied.
Despite all the talk of otherworldly beings, Lanthimos said the film’s subject matter is “very reflective of the real world.”
Bugonia involves a money-hungry pharmaceutical CEO who is destroying lives, while the “villains” bent on stopping her are just trying to save Earth.
“Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon. People need to choose the right path in many ways,” Lanthimos said of the storyline, which adapts the 2003 South Korean sci-fi flick Save the Green Planet! “Otherwise, I don’t know how much time we have … with technology, with A.I., with wars, climate change, and the denial of all these things. How desensitized we’ve become to all these things. … Hopefully it will trigger people to think about of what’s happening all around the world.”
Stone said she continues to collaborate with Lanthimos because his movies are always “funny, and moving, and f—ed up and alive.”
Bugonia opens in theatres on Oct. 24.
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