There’s no easy way to say this: But Easy A just turned 14.
That’s right—the Emma Stone-led film loosely inspired by The Scarlet Letter was released in theaters Sept. 17, 2010. And as it turns out, the actress was drawn to her character Olive—a high school student who lies about having sex and sees how her life and reputation change once the rumors spread—right from the get-go.
“I read the script before Screen Gems, which is the studio that made it, optioned it,” she explained to E! News back in 2010. “So it was floating out there and no one was making it. I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I love this so much.’”
Once Screen Gems got the rights to the script, Emma continued, she met with director Will Gluck and other leaders behind the film and “kind of pushed them to let me be the first person to audition for it.”
“Needless to say, they auditioned a lot of people for it,” the then-21-year-old added. “So I was very lucky that they gave me a chance to do it ‘cause I’ve never, obviously, done anything in that capacity before.”
