Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos on "Poor Things"

[Music] it's Sunday morning on CBS and here again  is Lee Cowan she plays a woman who's been brought back to life in a Frankenstein inspired tale with  a funny and a feminist Edge Tracy Smith is in conversation with Emma Stone and the director of  her latest project a movie that's getting plenty of award season attention top if you've seen Emma  Stone on any red carpets lately and she's kind of hard to miss you might have noticed a Tall  Bearded man close by he's Greek film director yorgos Lanth

imos and it seems he and stone are  in a professional sense joined at the hip how much time have the two of you spent together  like hundreds of thousands of hours and it's all been magical every second has been a like a  dream dream this is Bella it might be more like a fever dream good evening her brain and her body  are not quite synchronized Lanthimos directed Stone in her latest film poor things based on  the Alasdair Gray novel of the same name it's an updated take on the Frankenstein stor

y in this  case a brilliant scientist transplants a baby's brain into a recently deceased woman Bella she  quickly evolves from being a really big toddler to a really smart adult who learns how to dance  how to read and how to think you're losing some of your adorable way of speaking I'm a changeable  feast as are all of we apparently according to Emerson critics have called the film Fantastical  and Sumptuous it's the result of a collaboration between Stone and Lanthimos that they both say  cou

ld be pretty intense do you fight yeah yeah about what we won't right now I mean fight no we  don't *fight* fight we we um we really communicate strongly in those moments but I think we always  resolve it relatively quickly we can speak to each other freely so it's it it helps Lanthimos  breaks down inhibitions by having cast members play theater games and rehearsals rather than  just read through the script and he likes to keep his set quiet you don't yell action I don't  no we'd like to ease i

nto things in general we try to create this atmosphere which doesn't create  tension and it all seems to have worked Lanthimos acquired the rights to pour things years ago but  when he tried to sell the idea to Studios he got the cold shoulder so then he made another film  one with a more conventional artistic Vision 2018 the favourite starring Rachel Weisz and Emma  Stone so my secrets are safe with you all of them good even your biggest secret abigail the favourite was also a favorite at  the

Oscars with 10 nominations and one win and Lanthimos' reputation soared did the favourite  give you the juice to be able to do this yeah people were asking me what it is that you want  to do next and I want like poor things I can't let you go if you do not B should turn rotten with  hate and his patience seems to have paid off the film has already picked up a number of awards  but Stone says her character was a challenge to play was there ever a moment when you thought oh I  don't know if I'm go

ing to get this yeah the whole time um yes the entire time seriously yeah why I  don't think there's been a day on set of any film of anything I've ever done where I've been like  I really got it today that was exactly what it's supposed to be the I mean I think that's for any  any creative person you you see something in your head or you feel like it should be a particular  way and then it has to come out of your mouth and your body and all of that and it never matches  up to what exactly you h

ave in your head and it's like a constant state of acceptance and for  an actor hopefully presence and the Golden Globe goes to Emma Stone of course she needn't have  worried the Golden Globe voters thought she got it just right but Stone told us that worried is  her natural state of being and that she's been that way since she was very young do you still  have that anxiety oh yeah yeah not not to the level that it was when I was a kid because I've  I have therapy or I have tools now to to manag

e it in different ways and as the years go on you  start to learn more about about managing what that is but yeah I mean that's my my operating system  now have you figured out how to kind of Channel it for good is that possible if it is please tell me  is there a way to channel anxiety for good oh my God are you kidding me anxiety is like I would I  would I'm I feel so lucky to to be to be anxious anxious why because I think it can be sort of like  a superpower sometimes anxiety is very activat

ing it gets you out of bed you you kind of can't  just stay in one place it sort of forces you to keep moving I don't know I I find a lot of  positives from it and it seems she's made the best of it say there's here well I think I'll be  but your call a case in point her performance in la la land for which she won an Oscar I still have  a a lot of growing and learning and work to do and this guy is a really beautiful symbol to continue  on that journey and I so grateful for that and now Stone an

d her latest movie are once again in the  Oscar conversation but she says she tries not to let it all get to her is there a way that you get  ready for it or something that you tell yourself to navigate these Waters no just to starty to hold  everything lightly and not cling too much to any of it and also you know to not take yourself  seriously through that which I don't really struggle that's not really an Affliction that I  struggle with um taking myself super seriously because if you were me

you wouldn't take me  seriously either but it's yeah I think you can take your work seriously and not yourself  seriously she is serious about her partnership with Yorgos Lanthimos they have another project in  the works and more on the way and yes their film may be called Fantastical but fantastic might  better describe the real life of Emma Stone you moved out here when you were 15 years old is this  career this life kind of what you were dreaming of oh it's so far beyond what I what I dreame

d of  I'm I feel so unbelievably grateful on a daily basis TR truly I really really really wanted  to be on a sitcom and I can't believe that I get to work with people that I admire and adore  and trust and have been able to play roles that are just so far beyond what I ever imagined and  it's nuts yeah and I still am open for sitcoms if you've got anything that you're thinking about  we'll make sure we put that out there okay thank you