Emma Stone was seven years old when she experienced her first panic attack: She was just sitting at a friend’s house, and all of a sudden the house was on fire. Stone remembers her chest started to tighten. She phoned her mother, who didn’t understand what was happening, but came to pick her up anyway. Stone says her fear eventually disappeared that day, but the anxiety still existed.
Stone had massive separation anxiety from her mother. That was a large part, she thinks, of what was setting off her anxiety. But going to school meant that she would have to be away from her mother for hours in the day. “I started to receive treatment around age eight, because it was getting really hard for me to leave the house to go to school,” she says.
Despite her anxiety—or maybe because of it—Stone began acting when she was 11; by age 15, she had convinced her parents to move from Arizona to Los Angeles so she could go on auditions (试镜). Stone found that acting was a way to remain in the present moment, without worrying about the past or the future. Plus, she adds, “As an actor, all of my big feelings are productive.”
Stone won the Academy Award in 2017 for her performance in the movie musical La La Land, and was nominated (提名) for Oscars for her performances in Birdman and The Favourite. She has been nominated again this year for her starring role in Poor Things.
In Poor Things, which Stone both starred in and produced, she plays Bella, a woman who has nearly died by killing herself and then is brought back to life by a strange surgeon. After that, Bella has the brain of a baby and the body of a grown woman. When her brain develops into a young adult brain, Bella leaves the surgeon to go on an adventure with a man who has become crazy about her.
Stone says, “Anxiety is like rocket fuel because I can’t help but get out of bed and do things. That’s really a gift.”
4. What happened to Emma Stone when she was seven?
A.She witnessed a fire accident. | B.She had a fight with her friend. |
C.She experienced her second panic attack. | D.She couldn’t reach her mother on the phone. |
5. What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us about Emma Stone?
A.Her illness. | B.Her education. | C.Her adventures. | D.Her achievements. |
6. What does the underlined word “her” in paragraph 5 refer to?
A.Stone. | B.Bella. | C.The surgeon. | D.The baby. |
7. What can we learn about Emma Stone from the text?
A.She often felt anxious when acting. |
B.She tried to kill herself but was rescued. |
C.She turned her anxiety into an advantage. |
D.She didn’t get along well with her family. |