Emma Stone Further Cemented as Summer 'It Girl' with Jim Carrey Video

COMMENTARY | Emma Stone may be the object of Jim Carrey's odd affections, but that may not be surprising considering her summer. Carrey's video love letter to Stone Thursday was pretty much the last thing that hasn't happened to the young star in the last several weeks. Now that another superstar who's more than twice her age has come on to her, it seems like her place as the "It Girl" of this summer has been even further assured.

Stone is already the hottest young actress in Hollywood from starring in The Help, Crazy Stupid Love and the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man. It showed that her past work in Easy A, Superbad and Zombieland was no fluke, as she continues to win over fans and critics -- and is admittedly one of this author's celebrity crushes.

Although being hit on by Carrey in a bizarre video may be a downside to stardom, she is bound to brush past it and have some kind of funny response, like she's risen above most everything else this summer. She even managed to avoid most of the backlash around her role in The Help, even if her character didn't.

Critics complained that the movie was just another "white guilt" take on the civil-rights era because Stone's character Skeeter, and not the maids whose story she chronicles in a book, is the main engineer of change. To many, like Slate's Dana Stevens, it makes the movie's take on history "feel kind of icky."

But while The Help's detractors attacked Skeeter for being more of a main character than the maids, they didn't hold it against Stone herself -- even though Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer are regarded as the real stars of the movie. Still, this controversy has hardly stopped Stone from rising even further up the A-list with this hit film.

Her past summer movie, Crazy Stupid Love, didn't make as much money or have her in as much of a central role. However, she and Ryan Gosling were credited for stealing that film together, with the Sioux City Journal's Bruce R. Miller pegging them as "the De Niro and Streep of their generation."

That hyperbole seems less extreme compared to how Carrey said he wanted to make "chubby little freckle-faced kids" with her if he was younger. But having obsessive fans who occasionally say creepy things is a sign that an actor or actress has made it. In Stone's case, her obsessive fan happened to be a 49-year-old comedy icon.

Carrey did tweet that his video was a comedy routine, but still stated that everything he said was true. But while there is still room to question how creepy his "comedy routine" was, it is hard to fault him for being enamored with Stone in the first place; it is becoming fairly common these days. Yet most fans are finding far less questionable ways to show it, like seeing her collection of summer movies.

Sources

Jim Carrey TruLife- "Jim Carrey's Message To Emma Stone"

Slate- "The Help"

Jim Carrey (jimcarrey) on Twitter

Sioux City Journal- "Supporting stars steal 'Crazy Stupid Love' from Carell"