Giving lip.
A tense-looking back-and-forth between Emma Stone and Margaret Qualley on the 2025 Oscars has been decoded.
Video of the actresses in what has been described by many as a “heated” alternate backstage at this 12 months’s Academy Awards captured by Entry Hollywood went viral shortly after the ceremony on Mar. 2. The unique video has been considered over 11 million instances and reshared by numerous others.
Within the clip, Stone, 36, and Qualley, 30, seem to “square off.” Aggressively stepping ahead towards the “La La Land” actress, Qualley seems indignant and confrontational whereas Stone timidly steps again.
However all shouldn’t be because it appears, in line with lip reader Nicola Hickling, who has revealed what the “Substance” star allegedly informed Stone.
“It looks like Margaret is about to square up in this scene, giving Emma her mean girl look,” Hickling informed the Every day Mail.
“Don’t worry, they are not fighting though. They do this all the time,” she defined.
Hickling continued, “In fact, Margaret says to Emma, ‘Yeah and I am about to freak out.’”
Qualley’s husband, music producer Jack Antonoff, 40, was additionally together with her, standing off to the aspect.
Followers flooded the feedback part of the publish, sharing their ideas on the alternate.
“For a moment i thought Margaret was ready to square up,” one particular person wrote on TikTok.
Others, referring to Qualley’s character in “The Substance,” mentioned, “Sue was taking over!”
“She was straight pressin her. Idc what no one says,” one commenter added.
One other particular person shared, “Omg with no sound on it looks like there gonna fight so bad like Margaret kept walking towards Emma and looked like she was mad saying REALLY REALLY and other lady looked like she was tryna stop them.”
“Why is Emma backing away from her like that lol,” another person commented.
Although many believed the actresses had been truly beefing, others identified — as Hickling did — that Qualley and Stone have a historical past of play-fighting when out at trade occasions.
“Just so you all know, they do this at almost every awards show they go to. It’s their inside joke,” a TikTok consumer wrote within the feedback. “Do some research before commenting on what you do not know people.”
“[T]hat’s just how they play lol,” one particular person mentioned. “Theres a whole other video of them at an event doing the same thing but in that video it’s obvious they’re joking.”
Elsewhere on the Oscars, Stone was additionally seen apologizing to Qualley for repeatedly stepping on the lengthy practice of her glamorous black costume.
Final Could, the actresses had been seen getting in one another’s faces on the Cannes 2024 crimson carpet, jokingly arguing earlier than laughing and breaking character.
Stone and Qualley acted alongside each other within the 2024 film, “Kinds of Kindness.”
