Emma Stone Explains Her Special Connection to Three-Time Costar Sally Field: 'I Just Love Her'

Mar. 15, 2025

Sally Field and Emma Stone.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Emma Stoneand her three-time costarSally Fieldhave a special bond.

After Stone, 35, won Best Actress at the 96thAcademy Awardson Sunday, she toldGood Morning Americathat getting onstage with presenters Field, 77,Jennifer Lawrence,Michelle Yeoh,Charlize TheronandJessica Lange"was incredible."

“I wish that they did that every year, it was so beautiful,” Stone said of the Academy’s presentation for acting awards, which featured five past winners recognizing each nominee before announcing each awards' winner.

“And Sally Field I’ve gotten to work with three times. We have the same birthday,” thePoor Thingsactress said of Field. Both stars celebrate their birthdays on November 6.

“I just love her and what she was saying — all of those women I admire so much and look up to so much, so it was it was really [special],” she told the outlet.

Michelle Yeoh, Emma Stone, Sally Field and Jennifer Lawrence on March 10, 2024.Richard Harbaugh/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty

Richard Harbaugh/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty

“Curious as a puppy and hungry as a bear, Emma Stone’s brilliant Bella is unhinged, uninhibited and completely original,” Field said of Stone’sPoor Thingscharacter as each presenterfeted each nomineeat Sunday’s Oscars ceremony.

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Stone could be seen beaming as Field spoke to herPoor Thingsperformance before winning the award Sunday. The pair were later seen embracing backstage after Stone accepted her second Best Actress Oscar (shepreviously won forLa La Landin in 2017.) The two actresses each appeared in 2012 and 2014’sAmazing Spider-Manmovies and also worked together on the 2018 Netflix miniseriesManiac.

Sally Field, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Yeoh, Charlize Theron and Jessica Lange on March 10, 2024.Frank Micelotta/Disney via Getty Images

Frank Micelotta/Disney via Getty Images

After Stone addressed awardrobe malfunctionand shared that her “voice is also a little gone,” whileaccepting the Best Actress honoron Sunday, she spoke toPoor Things' success as a group effort: theYorgos Lanthimos-directed movieultimately won four awards, second-most among all movies nominated.

“The other night, I was panicking, as you can kind of see, happens a lot. That maybe something like this could happen, and Yorgos said to me, ‘Please take yourself out of it,’ " Stone said during her speech. “And he was right, because it’s not about me. It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts. And that is the best part about making movies. It’s all of us together.”

source: people.com