Emma Stone can relate to her 'La La Land' character's experience of "rejection".
Emma Stone
The 27-year-old actress plays the part of Mia, an aspiring actress and playwright, in the Damien Chapelle-directed movie - alongside Ryan Gosling - and can relate to the traumatic experience of being turned down for movie roles in auctions.
In an interview with Backstage magazine, she said: "Obviously, I relate to Mia in quite a few ways. Auditioning, that kind of rejection, I went through three years of that - not six (like Mia), but I knew that world and what that felt like."
The 'Crazy, Stupid Love' star doesn't understand why filmmakers choose auditioning to pick their cast because she feels once you start shooting a film it's a very "different" job.
She added: "Auditioning is the difference between being a good test-taker and being a good student. You could be a great student who, under pressure, is gonna fail on the test. I don't know how people can (cast) from auditions - it feels so different once you're actually on a set than it did in the audition."
The flame-haired beauty previously admitted she relished the role because she felt able to identify with her on-screen character.
She said: "I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.
"It's pretty insane that we're talking about this movie and it's something that I'm so proud and excited to be a part of, when that is the goal of the character, is to be a part of something like this."
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