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Emma Stone Thought She Was Making an Entirely Different Show When She Signed on to ‘The Curse’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Emma Stone, and Nathan
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Speaker 1: Fielder's show, The Curse is hard to pigeonhole into a
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Speaker 1: specific genre.
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Speaker 2: Is it a comedy, a drama, psychologic horror. It's funny
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Speaker 2: but also intense and disturbing and oftentimes you're not sure
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Speaker 2: how you're supposed to react to any particular scene. But
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Speaker 2: it was classified as a drama for Awards submissions. Though
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Speaker 2: Emma tells The Hollywood Reporter of her own definition of
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Speaker 2: the show was constantly evolving. She says, with the initial
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Speaker 2: idea of the show and the pilot's script, it was
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Speaker 2: definitely more overtly comedic. It was like a half hour comedy,
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Speaker 2: and that's what was sold to Showtime. Then they were
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Speaker 2: shocked to discover it was a one hour drama, and
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Speaker 2: that sort of developed as they wrote the show, and
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Speaker 2: I got more and more intense as time went on.
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Speaker 2: I was shocked to me, it's decidedly not the comedy.
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Speaker 2: But that wasn't what I thought going in.
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Speaker 1: You can stream The Curse on Showtime that's direct from Hollywood.