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"I read the script and thought, 'Oh, man, somebody's going to be so good in this.' Then I went, 'Wait a second, you've got the screenplay, why'd they give it to you?' I never got why everybody didn't just die for the part. I guess a lot of people had more to lose than I did." Well, the nudity, for one thing. "I mean, so what?".
As she explained, due to the number of actresses offered the part before her, the reaction might have felt a little anti-climactic when she walked onto set for the first time; “It was not an easy part to get. “They offered it to 12 or 13 other women who turned it down. So it wasn’t like I got there and everyone was like, ‘Yay, she’s here!’ It was like, ‘Mm.’ But I knew walking on that set that I was enough.” Thankfully, Stone did get the part that would truly lift her career off into the stratosphere, and all these years later, the movie - and that scene - is still as iconic as ever.