Emma Stone is still living the nightmare.
The “La-La Land” actress Emma Stone was recently interviewed in Out magazine. Stone is playing tennis great Billie Jean King in the upcoming movie “Battle of the Sexes,” which tells the story of King's 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” win over tennis champion Bobby Riggs. Riggs, 55, had boasted he could beat any woman who stepped onto the tennis court. King was 29 at the time.
As Stone tells Out, shooting for the film began in the spring of 2016. Then everything went wrong:
We began shooting in the spring of 2016, when there was still a lot of hope in the air, and it was very interesting to see this guy—this narcissistic, self-focused, constantly-stirring-the-pot kind of guy—against this incredible, qualified woman, and at the same time be playing Billie Jean, with Steve [Carell] playing Bobby Riggs.
Obviously the way this has all panned out has been fascinating and horrifying, and it still feels like we're in a bad dream, but those parallels make sense to me—the equal-pay issue makes a lot of sense to me. At our best right now we're making 80 cents to the dollar."
Stone, 28, was interviewed alongside King and co-star Andrea Riseborough. ”In my career so far, I've needed my male co-stars to take a pay cut so that I may have parity with them,” the actress said. "And that's something they do for me because they feel it's what's right and fair. That's something that's also not discussed, necessarily—that our getting equal pay is going to require people to selflessly say, 'That's what's fair.'"
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