After trying to decipher what Selena Gomez told Taylor Swift at the 2024 Golden Globes, internet sleuths are back to reading lips. This time, they’re attempting to figure out what Emma Stone said after Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about her movie Poor Things at the 2024 Academy Awards.
ICYMI, Emma Stone took home the award for Best Actress for her performance as Bella Baxter in Poor Things. Resurrected from the dead after a tragic death, the film follows Bella Baxter as she travels through the 19th century, but with a twist — her consciousness is replaced by that of her unborn fetus.
During the 2024 Oscars, which Kimmel hosted for the fourth time, he couldn’t resist commenting on Poor Things’ nudity content in his opening monologue. “Those were all the parts of Poor Things we’re allowed to show on TV,” he said to the audience. As Kimmel received a few awkward laughs, the camera panned to Stone, who appeared to mouth something about the host that internet sleuths are still trying to decipher.
While speaking to her husband Dave McCary who was sitting beside her, Stone mouthed something that social media users speculated to either be the word “prick” or “Oh my god.” However, the exact words remained ambiguous, leaving uncertainty as to whether the actress was genuinely upset or found the joke a bit amusingshe appeared to crack a slight smile towards the end.
So, what did Stone really say about Kimmel’s Poor Things joke?
I decided to mouth the words “what a prick” to see if they matched what Emma said, and it seemed close enough for me to be convinced. Internet sleuths wasted no time forming their own theories, and it appears that some social media users, along with myself, are fully convinced by this “prick” theory.
Meanwhile, others think the actress reacted to Kimmel’s joke by saying “oh my god,” and TBH, this theory doesn’t seem too far off.
While some online detectives weren’t entirely sold on the idea that Stone actually called Kimmel a prick, others thought Stone’s reaction was spot on given the inappropriateness of the joke.
Will the fifth time be a charm for Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes, maybe?