Emma Stone Weighs In On Ryan Gosling’s ‘Barbie’ Performance, Says Her Broken Dress Has Been Repaired – Oscars Backstage

If you were concerned for Emma Stone and her broken dress following her appearance onstage at tonight’s Oscars to accept the prize for Best Actress, fear not.

“They sewed me back in,” Stone shared. “Right when I came back[stage], they sewed me back in, which was wonderful.”

Stone highlighted the issue with her dress while on stage, remarking that she thought it might’ve got broken during Ryan Gosling’s much-lauded performance of the song “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie. Backstage, the actress shared that this remark was genuine, adding, “I was so amazed by Ryan and what he was doing, and that number just blew my mind. I was right there, and I just was going for it, and things happen.”

Additionally, Stone spoke to the meaning Poor Things‘ Bella Baxter has for her, compared to all the characters she’s played before. “I think the chance to play a person starting from scratch, but in a total metaphorical, can’t-really-happen-in-real-life way, who’s gaining language and skills at a rapid pace every day and getting to chart that course and realize that she was just full of joy and curiosity and true love of not just the good but the challenging in life, and was fascinated by all of it, that was an amazing lesson to take with me and to try to get to live in the shoes of every day,” the actress said. “So I really miss playing her ever since we wrapped filming, which was a long time ago. It was like two and a half years ago. I miss Bella and I’m really grateful that we got to celebrate the film tonight and over these past few months.”

Reuniting Stone with Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on the heels of their Oscar-nominated period dark comedy The Favourite, Poor Things is an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name. Scripted by Tony McNamara, the film watches as Stone’s young Victorian woman Bella is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, this woman with the mind of a child is eager to learn. But as Bella grows hungry for the worldliness she is lacking — and for sex, specifically — she runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

While Stone and Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone had long been eyed as the frontrunners for Best Actress at the 2024 Oscar, other contenders included Annette Bening (Nyad), Sandra Hüller, (Anatomy of a Fall), and Carey Mulligan (Maestro). Poor Things won a total of four Oscars tonight, also prevailing in the categories of Best Production Design, Costume Design, and Makeup and Hairstyling. Pic scored the second-most Oscars of any this year, on the heels of Oppenheimer, also registering in the categories of Best Picture, Directing, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Score.

Up next for Lanthimos and Stone is Kinds of Kindness, an as-yet-undated anthology film also to be distributed by Searchlight, which also stars Jesse Plemons, Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. No release date for that title has been set.