Let This Be Your Easy Guide to What the Easy A Cast Is Up to Now

Emma Stone Wants To Go By Her Real Name in Hollywood

Loosely inspired by The Scarlet Letter, the Emma Stone-led film debuted in theaters Sept. 17, 2010. And as it turns out, the actress was drawn to her character Olive—a high school student who lies about having sex and sees how her life and reputation change once the rumors spread—right from the get-go.

"I read the script before Screen Gems, which is the studio that made it, optioned it," she explained to E! News back in 2010. “So it was floating out there and no one was making it. I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I love this so much.'"

Once Screen Gems got the rights to the script, Emma continued, she met with director Will Gluck and other leaders behind the film and "kind of pushed them to let me be the first person to audition for it."

"Needless to say, they auditioned a lot of people for it," the then-21-year-old added. "So I was very lucky that they gave me a chance to do it ‘cause I’ve never, obviously, done anything in that capacity before.”

The film marked Emma’s breakout lead role—with her receiving her very first Golden Globe nomination (of course, eight more would follow, including her two wins and two Oscars for 2016’s La La Land and 2023’s Poor Things).

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So, some might be surprised that she’s said she’s never watched Easy A in its entirety.

"I haven’t seen it. No." the now-37-year-old, who recalled putting an immense amount of pressure on herself, told Timothée Chalamet during a 2018 conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. "I’ve seen some scenes. But I went to a friends and family screening to see it, and I had to get up and walk out. Who wants to watch themselves for that long?"

In honor of Easy A streaming for free on Fandango, keep reading to see what Emma, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow and more stars from the film are up to now.

(E! and Fandango are both part of Versant).

This story was originally published September 17, 2024.

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