Emma Stone is nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things. She spoke with Terry Gross about the film and her relationship to her anxiety. David Bianculli reviews Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Also, Benjamin Breen talks about his book, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. It's about the pioneering work anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson did on the use of psychedelics as a way to expand consciousness, and how that later connected to government research on the use of psychedelics as a weapon. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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From why YY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with fresh AIr Weekend Today Emma Stone nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things.
Stone won an Oscar for her performance in La La Land and was nominated for Birdman and the Favorite.
Also, Benjamin Breen talks about his book tripping on Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the troubled birth of psychedelic science.
It's about the pioneering work anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson did on trances and the use of psychedelics in the 1930s as a way to expand consciousness and how that later connected to government research on the use of psychedelics as a weapon.
And David Biancouli reviews Ryan Murphy's FX series feud Capote versus the swans that's coming up on Fresh Air weekend.
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Dot this is FRESH AIR Weekend.
I'm Terry Gross.
My first 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 La La 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 eleven 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, Superbad and Easy A.