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艾玛·斯通：跟自己死磕的追梦女孩 Emma Stone’s favorite place for sushi in Los Angeles is a no-frills1） spot in a Sunset Boulevard2） strip mall3）. It’s here， having barely taken a seat that she starts telling me about her hiatal hernia4）. “I can’t have spicy foods，” Stone says. “I was born with it，” Stone notes cheerfully. She snaps apart her chopsticks. “I was like a little old man as a young lady.” I first met Stone approximately 11 minutes ago， but it feels like I’m hanging with an old buddy. She huddles over the table mock-conspiratorially; drops5） callbacks to small talk we only just made like she’s citing long-cherished in-jokes. That Stone is preposterously6） affable should come as no surprise to anyone who’s seen her act. She’s a resolutely human-scale movie star—the type that somehow tricks you， onscreen， into forgetting that she’s a movie star at all. Stone is often likened to her hero Diane Keaton7）， and the comparison tracks in a few ways： Both are beautiful， funny， repeat Woody Allen muses. But in Stone’s combination of gameness8）， wry wit and ability to make an overriding aura of good-heartedness come off as magnetic rather than dull， she’s got a lot in common with another hero of hers—Tom Hanks. She auditioned to act alongside him in Larry Crowne， back in 2011， not because of the script so much as the fact that she adores Hanks. She didn’t get the part， but that same year， Stone got top billing9） in The Help and stole scenes in Friends With Benefits and Crazy， Stupid， Love. Watching those movies and the others that Stone has elevated over the years—Superbad， Easy A， Zombieland， and The Amazing Spider-Man reboots， among them—you routinely get the impression that she’s operating an amused half-beat ahead of everyone else; that she’s having a blast on her own terms， unconcerned with whether anyone is even watching. Stone lives in New York. She’s in Los Angeles right now because she has an excellent new movie coming out， called La La Land. It’s a musical，