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hi i'm emma stone and this is my life in looks

oh my god this was the first premiere

that i ever went to for super bad

which was the first movie i ever did i remember it

being very very exciting tara swenon was the stylist for this super bad was

so so exciting because i just loved the script

so much i'd been auditioning so much

and this amazing casting director allison jones i had been into her a bunch of times for different sitcom pilots

and all these things and

so she thought of me for this role jewels in super bad it was like months i went in

and did improv with jonah for judd apatow who was a producer

and my best friend in the world is martha mcissaac who played becca the other female character in super bad

and we lived together after that

and just you know life-changing in in every way i guess

i would say to myself back then like go for it how exciting

that you uh get to do this i don't think there's

ever gonna be anything in here where i'm gonna be like filled with um regret

because what's the point you know every every time period of

your life is different next up we have oh my okay wait hold on i told you before

that i wasn't gonna say i regret anything i immediately am going against

that it's not about the dress though it's the spray tan listen i'm from arizona

and i don't have any pigment in my skin

so growing up i was really obsessed with the idea of being tan

that sort of followed me the first couple years

that i was was going to these types of things i thought you know

if you're dressing up and

if you want to look great you should get a really really dark spray tan

if you look closely my hands are it looks like i'm wearing gloves

because it's not on my hands i love this dress i remember feeling

so great in this so great

that i had to get a spray tan to really enhance

how great i felt easy a was another very pivotal moment uh for me i i loved

that character so deeply i love olive because she's

so sort of i never know how to pronounce this word

because i only read it preacher naturally i thought

that albeit was all bite for so many years

because i would see it written down and i was like i'll bite everybody it's all be it so preacher naturally

come at me internet i'm gonna get canceled for that one she's

so precocious i guess is a different word for it in

terms of how she relates to the sort of high school atmosphere

and i think that she's very in that world but not of

that world yeah i just love all of it she rocked we're gonna go to the next look now

and i can't wait to show you what we've got it's

oh god it's the spray tan again i look like one solid thumb

and that dress is

so pretty i just why did i decide to match my

skin tone to the dress that's what bums me out about

this is i really such a beautiful dress such a beautiful shade

and i just i really thought that the tan was was the move

that was a really really fun night because i brought my mom

and we sat next to um angelina jolie and she asked angelina jolie

if she had any kids the golden globes is sort of like these big round tables

and and it feels like you're just like constantly running into all these people that you've only seen,

I guess on TV or in movies.

Everybody's shorter than you think they are,

except for Conan O'Brien, who's seven and a half feet tall.

Here we go.

Next up is, oh, this is John Batiste Valle.

The Oscar's 2012, and I presented best visual effects with Ben Stiller.

I was very nervous.

Ben Stiller was great and very nice,

and we had done the rehearsal.

It was fun for me because honestly,

in any of these circumstances,

there's nothing more fun for me than performing.

So anytime I get to kind of do a bit,

it's like on talk shows,

like getting to do lip syncing or a game or something feels way better to me than doing an interview like this.

Thanks a lot.

I had an amazing time here because it was so fun to,

you know, ask Jonah to dance

or like to be this really kind of over the top character and Ben was such an amazing straight man.

I mean, he's iconically an incredible straight man in so many things.

That was a real boon to have Ben Stiller straight manning my cuckoo-ness.

Oh, yes.

Spider-Man premiered in London in 2014.

This is Versace.

I love that color so much, that bright yellow.

This beautiful gold necklace, the pink on the lip, the whole thing.

I loved it.

I mean, I really loved doing Spider-Man.

I loved everybody I worked with.

I met Andrew there.

I met Sally Field.

Mark Webb was wonderful.

Like it was really a special time in my life.

So that's the recurring theme is the people more than kind

of like the film itself is what sticks with me for so long.

And so I have only like the fondest memories of this whole experience.

I will say the press tours for these films,

I don't really know how people do it.

I remember it being like nine countries in maybe two weeks,

and you're functioning in a state of jet lag never previously known to you.

I felt truly psychotic the entire time.

So I'm half dead in this picture,

but I love the look.

Okay.

Oh, yes.

Okay, so this was Valentino.

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It was the Birdman premiere at Venice Film Festival, Mara Roszak.

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my hairdresser as we say not stylist had just given me

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a fresh bob we were very excited about this bob can't

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wait to get there again mara she's over there please soon i loved the shade of this the whole thing

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and this was my first time at the venice film festival

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which is so incredible you ride in gondolas everywhere i'd never been to venice italy before

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and it feels very romantic and very intense,

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as you can see from,

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I mean, look at that guy.

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It feels like that energy coming at you,

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but then you get on a gondola and it's like quiet and you're on the canals.

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It was amazing.

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Birdman felt like I thought that Alejandro was joking when he asked me to do it.

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I was like, there's no way you want me to play this part with this incredible cast and you're the director.

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It just really kind of threw me for a loop it really freaked me out

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and made me so excited

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and we had all these rehearsals for a month to choreograph everything

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because every scene was done in one take and i do think

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that that experience sort of shifted my relationship to films

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that i've wanted to be part of since my instinct is just to choose high wire acts i like

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when someone is swinging for the fences even

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if you miss you're really trying for something

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and um it doesn't feel like safe or complacent

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and i don't expect to be in that position for a long time

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while i have the opportunity to choose films that feel like

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that that's what i that's what i try to do and so birdman was really kind of the birth of that

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oh look at her go in her chartreuse that's ellie sob

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with some i believe tiffany cuffs at the end of the dress

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which look like they're part of the sleeves

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but they're not don't be fooled were they slightly tacked to

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the end of the sleeves sure yeah all right we took a little creative license

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but uh no they're not part of the dress what's wrong with me there's something

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so great about this color in general some might call it putrid a little a little gross you know

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but not us we love I love it.

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Even dyed the shoes to match, if you'll notice.

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Those did not come in that color.

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That's a dye job.

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The Lego movie was that year,

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and I got to get a Lego Oscar.

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So, great night.

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Oh, look!

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Wait, this was just the other day.

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Huh, right?

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No, I'm kidding.

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This is Vogue in 2016.

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I'm wearing a Michael Kors top,

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and who knows what's on the bottom.

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It was so fun.

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It was all wigs and it was just kind of all over the,

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I think the WB lot or the Paramount lot.

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And we were just dressing up and all these different things kind of in a tribute to the,

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you know, Mia being an actress in La La Land in the film,

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which is what this was for.

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And it was great.

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And I was really surprised that this was the cover picture and thought it was so cool.

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Okay.

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Oh, La La Land.

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Mary Zofris was the costume designer.

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The inspiration from Umbrellas of Cherbourg,

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The Jacques Demy movie was pretty resonant throughout all of the sort of color scape of this movie.

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It's a lot of, you know,

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bright and prime colors and everything was pretty much a solid shade.

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This yellow dress reminds me of that one that we had at the Spider-Man premiere.

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It's like this, a very similar shade of that, like buttery, buttercup yellow.

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I had done a cabaret.

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Damien Chazelle, our director, had come to see me in cabaret,

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Much like Sally Bowles, Mia doesn't have to be a perfect singer,

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which is the only way that I possibly could have played this role because I am not a natural born singer.

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I took voice lessons for so many years and it just didn't ever really progress to the point where it's like,

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she is a dyed in the wool singer.

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It was a joy to get to sing in a movie and not have this immense pressure of needing to sound perfect.

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We had to dance like this and to do tap training and our ballroom training.

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And it was great.

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Nope.

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Ah, yes.

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This is the Oscars in 2017 and I'm wearing Givenchy.

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This dress was very special.

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There were a lot of fittings for this.

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The fringe was really fun.

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Felt very kind of old Hollywood.

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It's also a really intense buildup period to a night like this i learned in

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that time period that the sort of going out and promoting a film like this film is

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longer than you ever rehearsed

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or shot the film like it's such a it's such a

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long sort of road to a night like this this is

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like the final night it's very emotional on a lot of levels

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and very surreal on a lot of levels it's like very tearful

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or was for me like very tearful and really intense

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and it's also like saying goodbye to all of those people

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that you've been doing this you've made the film with

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and then you've been out going to all these places

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or you know talking about this film for so long

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and it is the last night it's really emotional it was

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very emotional my proudest achievement is my spelling pedro i can spell really well

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but i can't say preacher naturally

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or i'll be it i have a ged anyway here's our

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next look louis vuitton it was the met ball heavenly bodies

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was the theme this is really the the super bowl for designers i would say it is beautiful

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and looks like i'm going on the ship a ship is kind of a heavenly body

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because it's like how is it so big

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and still staying afloat you know in terms of the physics of it someone could explain

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that to me

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that would be great this is a still from the favorite

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it was my first time working with uh uh one mr

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yorgos lan timos it was an amazing experience another cast

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and crew that i absolutely love

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and adore to this day we shot it on location at

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this place called hatfield house 45 minutes from london it was all very old

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and very beautiful and we weren't allowed to sit on anything

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and they put a pine cone on each chair throughout the sort of palace to ensure

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that we wouldn't sit on it and i remember thinking

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that was like so cool and sadistic

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but you know what you could do don't tell them you could lift up the wine cone

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and sit on it this was sandy powell costume designer she's

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a genius she's a legend my first time ever really wearing

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a corset i can confirm it does shift your organs after a

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while my body shape was different for like i would say about a month after the favorite

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because it was extremely tight it pulls you in i've got a very big rib cage

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so it's It's like an intense thing to maneuver.

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My body was definitely not built for a corset.

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That's a gift that keeps on giving because now I can really hold my breath for a long time underwater.

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And I think it's because of the corset.

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Okay.

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Hello.

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This is the cover of British Vogue.

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It's shot by Craig McDean.

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This is a look that Rachel Goodwin completely nailed,

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but you're told to not do anymore,

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which is a blue eye,

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blush pink, and a red lip.

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You know, like an 80s look

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but here it's incredible all credit where credit is due rachel goodwin is incredible

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and brilliant we've been working together for 20 years

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but i will say i met a red lip

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when i was in youth theater doing my own makeup i played many characters

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and i learned to do my makeup with ben nye

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if you know you know i was like playing um eeyore

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and old women where i would draw on wrinkles and stuff

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and i definitely had to wear a red lip as a stepsister in cinderella at the herberger theater center

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and one of the best parts about that red lipstick was i was 13

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and i had to put it on you know every day

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but i had braces

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and for the entire show i just had like red lipstick stuck in my braces

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so no rachel didn't introduce me to a red lip long

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story short next slide you know you can't really think about the 700 hours of craftsmanship

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while you're wearing it or else you you won't be able to move.

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There's so many people working on these clothes and it takes so much care and craftsmanship.

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Whenever there is a dress that I've gotten to wear,

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been lucky enough to wear it,

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that has taken a lot of hard work,

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you just feel grateful that you get to wear it.

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And it really does remind you of that thing in Devil Wears Prada,

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you know, where it's like,

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it's art that you live your life in.

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It really is true.

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It's pretty amazing.

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That said, Nikolaj, one of the great loves of my life.

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I saw the memes, okay?

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I saw the memes that I looked like Waffle.

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The color brown, I do understand because of the honeycomb shape,

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it is a little bit waffle-esque.

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And I like that because waffles are my favorite food.

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So you got got.

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My favorite place in the whole wide world, SNL.

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SNL has always been really personal to me.

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I did happen to meet my husband there as well,

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but my favorite, favorite performer of all time is Gilda Radner.

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I grew up obviously watching SNL every Saturday that was on at the time,

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which also, I was so lucky I was watching 90s SNL.

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Insane cast, so incredible.

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But I also knew so much about Gilda.

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Gilda has always held such a deeply special place in my heart.

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So Lorne was like this,

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I just couldn't imagine ever meeting Lorne.

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And the first time I met Lorne,

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I fully burst into tears and was just like, I couldn't speak.

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And honestly, the day that I got the call to host SNL for the first time,

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I was not well.

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I cried so hard.

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It was like somebody had died,

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but it was in the positive way.

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I w it was just,

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it was like the greatest,

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greatest dream of my life to get to go be there

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so it's it's always meant so much to me

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and it's just my favorite place to be this is a

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still from poor things holly waddington was our costume designer brilliant

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beyond belief just created such inspired unique looks for a person

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who is not sure how to put everything together on her

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own body um here it's it's bloomers with this sheer sort of petticoat

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that would be worn under another outfit also this ruffled shirt obviously would need a coat over it

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but what does bella baxter know she has no idea how

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that goes together so she just put on whatever she wanted holly won

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the oscar for this this was so genius

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and she was under great duress because this was in 2021

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when there was a lot of delays coming to budapest from

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england where she typically works in materials in in all of this stuff

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that she needed to make everything had to be made nothing was bought

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so she had a really huge job cut out for her in this time period

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and she just pulled it off so beautifully by no help of mine

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because i hate fittings and i was always like oh yeah it's doing another thing

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and just making her life a nightmare i think from the

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beginning we went to athens early on before we shot the film yorgos

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and holly and i kind of talked through mood boards

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and fabrics and all of these things

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and back to the sort of chartreuse world she wanted um colors

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that were a little off like a little strange you know very evocative of

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that kind of time period she kept saying things

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that felt like organs because godwin baxter bella's father is a surgeon there's a lot about brains

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and a lot of kind of you know scientific elements and

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so she had a lot of that inspiration from like bodily things

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which to me was just so cool and so interesting the way

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that she brought it to life okay oh what was really

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fun about this dress was there was these big pockets

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that are just like the structured pockets it's louis vuitton dress

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so i just texted nicola and asked him

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if we could put popcorn in the pockets because well i don't know

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if it's his favorite food

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but there's always popcorn around lorne michaels like in his office

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everybody just takes handfuls of popcorn i thought it's a 50th

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anniversary let's do a tribute to lauren with popcorn first of all rude

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because look at the ground i trailed popcorn everywhere i went

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and i know that's rude and i don't think

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that it's not rude and i'm sorry

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but at the same time did a lot of people eat

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popcorn out of my pockets yes people were very excited there was just free popcorn

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grace coddington was the creative director for this shoot amazing

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so exciting to just get to work with grace jamie hawksworth was the photographer i almost cried

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when i found out he was the photographer

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because he shoots exclusively on film usually medium format film

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and he develops and prints his own photography

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which is a huge passion of mine so i was

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so excited and jamie's very into you being kind of goofy

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and and you know sort of acting while you're being photographed

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so it was really a cool experience we were in the pope's residence before the Vatican in Avignon.

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And there was a tour group that was going through,

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but they would sort of rope off like half of it.

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And I would sort of like walk by in a robe and these Nicola-created looks.

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And this is very funny and very, very cool.

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And there's my Vogue cover.

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All right, that was my life in looks.

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Thank you so much for having me.

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And I hope you learned a lot today.

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I sure did.

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