How three “heartbreaking” actors convinced Emma Stone to take on HollywoodFor an industry as financially powerful as Hollywood, it’s a wonder how often they wildly miss the mark. Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Emma Stone are perhaps the strongest examples of horrific misjudgement in the entertainment industry. When Seth Rogen was finally pulling together Superbad for the big screen, he was relatively certain that Emma Stone was the actor he wanted involved. He’s like a stunt person, and a comedian, and a heartbreaking actor.”Sure, the modern work of Stone is cut from a hugely different cloth. Because before that, I really wanted to do musical theatre and didn’t have the chops for it really.”You could say that in La La Land, the film that gained Emma Stone her first Oscar, acted as a full-circle metaphor for that sentiment.