Emma Stone has been one of the biggest stars in Hollywood for more than a decade, but even she admits that she gets star-struck! During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the Cruella actress, 32, opened up about what it was like to meet her childhood crush, Leonardo DiCaprio, while accepting her Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for La La Land at the 2017 Academy Awards. “Leonardo DiCaprio. That was what was going through my mind cause it was him,” Emma said, recalling what she thought immediately after the Revenant Oscar winner, 46, called her name as the recipient of the prestigious award.
“And I was like, I’d seen Titanic seven and a half times in theaters,” she continued. “He was the love of my life. I had a picture of him in my bedroom that was signed, that I had gotten for my birthday when I was like 12 years old and I was walking to Leo and I was like, this is officially the most surreal moment of my life. I could not believe it.”
“He’s very sweet though,” Emma said of the longtime actor. “But that was truly – that was what was the craziest experience was the fact that it was him.” After all of these years, Emma confessed that, when she’s around Leo, she acts like she’s “still 12 years old.” In hindsight, though, Emma still looks back on her Oscar win and receiving her statuette from Leo with so much pride.
