I’m really enjoying WSJ. Magazine these days. The NYT’s T Magazine used to be great, they used to do these in-depth profiles of interesting celebrities or up-and-coming actors, but T Magazine has sort of stopped doing that so much and WSJ. Magazine has taken up the mantel. Emma Stone covers the newest issue and this is honestly one of the best profiles I’ve ever read with Emma. Emma is smarter than the average starlet and in most interviews, she’s able to successfully withhold and deflect when it comes to personal information. But in this piece, she actually ends up talking about Andrew Garfield, Woody Allen (she’s promoting Irrational Man) and more. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Moving back to LA after several years in NYC: “It feels different being by the water. You’d be surprised at how much of life can be taken up by doing yoga and nothing.”

She had panic attacks as a kid: “It was really bad. The first time I had a panic attack I was sitting in my friend’s house, and I thought the house was burning down. I called my mom and she brought me home, and for the next three years it just would not stop. I would go to the nurse at lunch most days and just wring my hands. I would ask my mom to tell me exactly how the day was going to be, then ask again 30 seconds later. I just needed to know that no one was going to die and nothing was going to change.”

She didn’t write a speech when she was nominated for an Oscar: “Are you out of your mind? Are you actually insane? Patricia Arquette had that thing locked up!”

The rumors about her breakup with Andrew Garfield: “See, I never talk about this stuff for this exact reason—because it’s all so speculative and baseless. Once you start responding—once you’re like, ‘No, that’s not true’—then they’re like, ‘Well, if we push enough, we’ll get a comment, so let’s see what else we can make up.’ I understand the interest in it completely because I’ve had it, too. But it’s so special to me that it never feels good to talk about, so I just continually don’t talk about it.”

When she walked around LA with a bad with Andrew’s name on it: “When I picked up the bag, I was like, ‘This is kind of funny if there are any [paparazzi] out there.’ There’s probably some rebelliousness that comes out in me after all these stories and people texting you for weeks about something that, for the most part, is not true. But even when it’s false, I would rather just let it be false.”

Her pet peeves: Animals dressed in outfits, people who send eight texts instead of one (“Just take a second!”), classic names intentionally misspelled. “Like Emily being E-M-A-L-I-E. Drives me crazy.”

Working with Woody Allen: “It’s terrifying. He doesn’t do table reads or any rehearsal. You can’t even ask questions about your character, because he’ll be like: ‘You know this is a movie, right?’ ”

Why she turned down the all-female Ghostbusters reboot. “The script was really funny. It just didn’t feel like the right time for me. A franchise is a big commitment—it’s a whole thing. I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water.”

[From WSJ. Magazine]

The Andrew Garfield section is interesting. I see her point about not giving in to false reports, but she IS still reacting those reports, she’s just not issuing a statement. It’s like she’s making it more complicated than it needs to be – when People, E! News, Us Weekly and Star all agree that Andrew and Emma had broken up, a simple “No, they’re still together” from her rep would have been the easiest path. Except that I still believe they probably were on a break and they just got back together when they were finally back in the same city together.

There’s also a lengthy part where she talks about the Sony Hack and her personal information ending on Wikileaks, and how she got all these weird emails from fans. What else? There’s a part where she talks about having insomnia while doing Cabaret on stage and she would go online at 3 am and buy stuff to make her own lotions. She also confesses to being a lurker on mom blogs and baking blogs, and she even met one of her favorite baking bloggers and they made apple-cider donuts together in real life. Emma is… quirky.

Photos courtesy of Angelo Pennetta for WSJ. Magazine.