The Jerk was the first movie I remember seeing," says Emma Stone, whose idols are mostly from that era: Gilda Radner, Steve Martin, Emma Stone John Belushi. "My favorite is John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles," she says.'Help' with history lessonsNext month, Emma Stone trades her polished red locks for The Help's frizzy-haired Emma Stone heroine, Skeeter, in the film based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.Stone hits her heaviest notes yet playing a young writer in the 1960s exposing Emma Stone the treatment of black maids Emma Stone in Mississippi. What follows is a warm but wrenching story of Skeeter's growing relationship with two maids, Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer) in the face of Skeeter's racist contemporaries.Director Tate Taylor, a childhood friend of Stockett's, was looking for a younger Joan Cusack to play the role. "I could not believe it, she was sitting right there," he says of meeting Emma Stone. He introduced the actress to the author over dinner. "That's Skeeter," Stockett told him.Stone and Taylor, who was directing his first studio Emma Stone movie, shook off their nerves at a blues club the night before they started filming. "The Help felt like going to summer camp," Emma Stone says, "hanging out with the cast every single day, riding our bikes to each other's houses."But the warm environment was countered by the somber tone of many of the film's scenes. Emma Stone shot The Help "6 miles from where Emmett Till's body was found 50 years ago and 11 miles from the birthplace of the White Citizens' Council," Emma Stone says. Preparing for the role, Emma Stone began questioning why her public school education about the civil rights movement had been limited to Martin Luther King Jr.Emma Stone
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