Emma Stone could win her second Academy Award on Sunday night. She’s nominated for best actress in a supporting role for her work in “The Favourite.” But Stone, who won her first Oscar for in 2017 for her performance in “La La Land,” hasn’t always been in the spotlight.
Before her breakout role in the 2007 comedy “Superbad,” Stone was a high school dropout struggling to land acting gigs in Los Angeles.
In ninth grade, she presented a PowerPoint to her parents detailing why they should let her leave school to pursue an acting career in L.A. Her pitch, which she titled “Project Hollywood,” worked.
“It’s nuts that they agreed to it,” Stone told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017. “I don’t condone it. Everybody should go through high school and graduate.”