Posted on 09/05/2025 3:02:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
<I>She credited Carl Sagan with inspiring her beliefs. Alex Ocho
Emma Stone says she believes in aliens.
The Oscar-winning actress made the confession on Thursday (Aug. 28) when she and director Yorgos Lanthimos appeared at the press conference for their new film Bugonia during the 2025 Venice International Film Festival.
When asked by a reporter whether she believes in a “higher intelligence looking upon us,” Stone gave a surprising take on the matter.
“I don't know about looking down on us,” Stone said at the one-hour, 24-minute mark of the video linked here. “One of my favorite people that has ever lived is Carl Sagan, and I watched his show Cosmos and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be.”
She continued, “And I think he very deeply believed that the idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe—truly, not that we're being watched— but that we're alone out here is a pretty narcissistic thing to think.
“So yes, I'm coming out with it. I believe in aliens. Thank you,” she concluded, bringing audible laughter in the press conference.
Earlier in the conference, another reporter asked Stone how she manages fame “without turning into an alien.”
“How do you know I’m not an alien?” she playfully asked before reflecting more seriously on the challenges of public perception.
“There’s me, and then there’s like me here, if that makes sense,” she said. “I separate the two in my mind a little bit. … It's just different things to keep myself sane, I guess.”
Bugonia will hit theaters on Oct. 24.
I did indecently discover the Pythagorean Theorem.
Many years ago. You don’t feed a bunch of friendly feral cats for many years without realizing that you are a caretaker...a prisoner of your love for them.
No one cares, Emma.
Have you moved out of the country yet?
I have always been fond of you, but we seem to cross paths.
What need do they have to understand the Fibonacci sequence?
(On the other hand, a lot of creation seems created from it...)
Schizophrenia typically begins to show at her age... Too bad too... She’s a pretty good actress, but mental illness has taken a lot of them.
I liked her in Superbad.
Unfortunately, the same for those hoovering raccoons who eat more than 5 cats do a day.
Humans are most definitely not smarter than animals. If we were, we wouldn't be so easily manipulated by them.
Or maybe it's just me.;-)
I tend to like her as an actress. I find her cute and just quirky enough to interesting and fun.
As a person? I don’t know her. These interviews tend to be silly and don’t really “inform”—even on the project they do them for.
In a nutshell, why anyone would find her response interesting is curious.
God didn’t say he made other planets with life on it. The aliens she’s talking about is demonic activity.
Does that mean Jesus would have to go to each of these planets and be crucified over and over again to save these people? There is only one planet with life on it.
There’s a lot of things God didn’t ‘say’. They exist nonetheless..
I think demons are a product of the human mind.
Carl Sagan and the Drake Equation hasn’t convinced me of anything with regards to the possibility of intelligent life on other planets.
I extrapolate from Earth outward.
There’s hardly a space on Earth that isn’t filled with Life. In recent decades we’ve even found that forms of life can exist in environments we previously thought utterly inhospitable, super hot, super cold, etc.
It just seems to me that there has to be life out there; and that it’s likely to have developed to be intelligent in some places. There’s just too much space, too many stars, too many planets.
And believing in God, the idea that only this one planet has life seems to me a completely nonsensical limitation on a God proven to possess such astoundingly unlimited creativity.
I miss Quix...
What monumental drivel.
“”Has it occured to you that you have been abducted by the cats?””
Humans don’t get abducted by cats. They get recruited or hired by cats (staff). Nobody forces them to work for cats. They choose to. Therefore, humans have no gripe coming.
Cats and humans share a symbiotic relationship.
Women out of the house.
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