Emma Stone Re-creates Characters From Her Botched ‘All That’ Audition

Like most successful actors, La La Land star Emma Stone has had auditions that didn’t go so well, to say the least. On Thursday night, she visited The Tonight Show and told Jimmy Fallon about some of those experiences. Stone said when she was 12 years old, she auditioned for All That, the sketch show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1994 to 2005 and helped launch the careers of Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, and Nick Cannon — along with spawning the movie Good Burger. The problem for Stone was that she was wildly unprepared and had to think quickly just to get through the audition.

“I guess it was sort of like SNL, except for I didn’t know that you had to have characters. So I thought they were going to give us sketches. And then five minutes before I went in the room, they said, ‘You need to have three characters when you come in the room,’” Stone explained.

Stone came up with a couple of pretty solid characters in a small amount of time and did her best to re-create them for Fallon. Her first character was a cheerleader who couldn’t actually spell whatever it was she was cheering for. The other was a babysitter who was possessed.

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