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This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bienkule. The Academy Awards are Sunday, and today we conclude our series of interviews with Oscar

nominees.

The film Poor Things has been nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture, Director,

Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, and Actress and Supporting Actor.

Today, we start with an interview with Emma Stone who stars in the film.

Terry spoke with her in January. Here's Terry.

My guest Emma Stone is nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things.

She won an Oscar for her performance in the movie musical Lala Land,

starring opposite Ryan Gosling,

and was nominated for Oscars

for her performances in Birdman and The Favorite.

She co-stars in the new streaming series The Curse. She's been

acting since she was 11 and was so determined to make acting a central part of

her life. She convinced her parents to let her be homeschooled so she could devote more time to acting and then convinced him at the age of 15 to go to LA so she could go to auditions.

Although she did not have a conventional high school experience, she first became known for two movies about high school kids,

super bad and easy A. In addition to her nomination for poor things,

the film is also nominated for Best Picture,

which means she is nominated for a second Oscar because she is a producer of the film.

She plays Bella, a woman who has died by suicide jumping off a bridge.

She's brought back to life by a weird surgeon, played by Willem Defoe's experiment is reanimating Bella and giving her the brain of an infant.

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