How Emma Stone Got Her Hollywood Ending rollingstone.com

How Emma Stone went from anxious child to Hollywood's hottest comic leading lady – our candid cover story on the freewheeling 'La La Land' star. Emma Stone's favorite place for sushi in Los Angeles is a no-frills spot in a Sunset Boulevard strip mall, tucked alongside a laser hair-removal clinic and a FedEx store. It's here, having barely taken a seat, that she starts telling me about her hiatal hernia. "I can't have spicy foods," Stone says. The issue, it turns out, is that part of her stomach protrudes "into my esophagus," which sounds gnarly but is actually pretty manageable, increased chances of acid reflux notwithstanding. "I was born with it," Stone notes cheerfully. She snaps apart her chopsticks. "I was like a little old man as a young lady."