In Emma Stone ’s new film Bugonia , she plays a high-powered CEO of a major company who is kidnapped by two rogue conspiracy theorists who believe her to be an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

So naturally, during the film’s press conference at the Venice Film Festival today, a journalist asked whether the creative team from the film believed that there are beings up above looking down on us humans.

“I don’t know about looking down on us,” Stone explained before adding that she has adopted the belief system of the late acclaimed mind of scientist philosopher Carl Sagan. “I watched his show, Cosmos , and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be. The idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe — truly not that w

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