Emma Stone is a supporter. She produced I Saw the TV Glow.

She has a lot of power and she granted it to Jane.

Jane Schoenbrun; *(Em is Emma Stone)

And the first step––before we went to A24 and said, “Hey, give us X-million dollars to make something, even though we’ve never had even a fraction of that money before to make something”––was to find some adults to take us through that process. I took a bunch of meetings and really liked the vibe that Fruit Tree had. It’s a smaller operation and they’re sweet and caring. Dave and Em, especially, are artists––both of them––and I felt in very good hands with that because I knew that I trust artists more than I trust development executives. I trust them more to protect me even if they don’t fully agree or understand the thing. That was the perspective that they were speaking very authentically from and the role that they played on this project.

In my first call with them I think Em literally said, “We have a lot of power and we want to give it to you.” And I was like, “Cool, I’ll take it. I’m going to need it.” They shepherded it. It’s not like Em was booking the caterer. She was there for the big moments and when I needed to call in my most famous producer. I do think they did what they said they would do, which is use their power to help smuggle something in that otherwise would maybe not had the political resources that it needed to get made in this way.