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Most modern stars fit a prototype. Clark Gable begat George Clooney, Robert Redford passed a torch to Brad Pitt, Katharine Hepburn paved the way for Cate Blanchett. But Emma Stone has no precedent on Earth. Stone can play shrewd, silly, gorgeous, repellent, frail and frightening simultaneously, in a register at once intimate and grand-scale. If she didn’t exist, some of her movies couldn’t exist — especially not the ones she’s created with edgy director Yorgos Lanthimos , who whisked her to the Oscars twice for “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” the latter of which won Stone her second lead actress award.

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