Emma Stone denies calling Jimmy Kimmel “a prick” over Oscars joke

Emma Stone has denied that she called Jimmy Kimmel a “prick” after he made a joke as the Oscars host about her film Poor Things.

In a clip that went viral, Stone appeared to mouth the word to her husband after Kimmel poked fun at the movie.

“Those were all the parts of Poor Things that we’re allowed to show on TV,” Kimmel quipped after the film’s Best Picture nominee montage aired.

But now, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Stone has flatly denied that she was annoyed by the gag, also saying that she did not call the host a prick.

“Did he upset me? No!” she said. “I didn’t call him a prick. What did I say? I didn’t call him a prick. I wasn’t upset with him at all. I’ll have to look that up. I’m near-unoffendable.”

She won her second Oscar that night for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film, although it lost out in the Best Picture race to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Promoting the film, Stone went out of her way to respond to those who suggested that it is sexist and exploitative. In the film, she plays Bella Baxter, a dead woman brought back to life by a mad scientist in Victorian London after having the brain of an unborn baby put in her head, before going on a journey of sexual discovery.

“If it helps, as the person who played it and produced it, I didn’t see her as a child in any of those scenes,” she said. “I know people who’ve seen the film and think it’s just the sweetest romantic comedy, and others who had to watch it through their fingers. And that’s great.”

In other Emma Stone news, she has been credited for contributing “oddities” to ‘Florida!!!’, a track from Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, although the nature of the oddities remains a mystery.

Stone and Swift are long-time friends, with the actress having gone to at least three shows on the ‘Eras’ tour. She also cracked a joke about the pop icon at the Golden Globes, later regretting it after it was taken out of context.