Emma Stone Says 'Battle of the Sexes' is About "Love, Social Change, & People Discovering Who They Are" | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Steve Carell also stars.

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00:00Steve, I really want to talk about...

00:02No question!

00:04May we please be excused?

00:06No, you were absolutely wonderful and hilarious and heartwarming.

00:11That's exactly right.

00:12You had a very fabulous photoshoot moment.

00:15That was the last thing we shot.

00:18Was it really?

00:19It was very last.

00:20And then I got in my car completely nude and went off.

00:30Billie Jean's triumph makes her the most successful woman player of all time.

00:36Do you all consider yourselves women's livers?

00:39What we're doing here is trying to prove that women should be paid and respected equally.

00:43What is this movie about?

00:45Oh, it's about a lot.

00:47It is about a lot. It really is, yeah.

00:49It is about the battle of the sexes, which was a pretty iconic exhibition match that happened in Houston at the Astrodome in 1973.

00:58And it's also, I think, a movie about love and social change and people who are discovering who they are.

01:07And it's about, you know, there are a lot of themes.

01:10Everyone knows the kind of headline story of the match, but what really interested us were the personal stories in Bobby and Billie Jean's lives.

01:20And, you know, what people didn't know.

01:22The movie's coming out in a very different time than when we made it or when we started working on it.

01:28So it's just, I think it will resonate with the times and hopefully the times will be changing and it'll resonate in a different way.

01:38I could be Billie Jean King.

01:40Does she have the nerve?

01:41Call Bobby.

01:42Tell him it's on.

01:43I would rather the real Billie Jean King communicate.

01:47Yeah, sure.

01:48We happen to have.

01:51Look who's here.

01:53They're all excited and still alive, you know.

01:56Still breathing.

01:57Still.

01:58No, you are so much more than alive.

02:01You are very alive.

02:02I'm gonna be the best.

02:03That way I can really change things.

02:08You know, when we set out to make this movie, it looked like we were on the cusp of having the first female president.

02:16Or the first Jewish president.

02:18Whatever.

02:19I love it.

02:22We would trash talk constantly.

02:25Constantly.

02:26I am going to beat you.

02:28No, I'm going to beat you.

02:29There's a lot of that back then.

02:30I got an anonymous email account just to send him, you know, 2 a.m.

02:35That was you?

02:36No, I didn't.

02:37No.

02:38I am not saying that women don't belong on the court.

02:41Who would pick up the balls otherwise?

02:43Oh my God.

02:44There's a lot, you know, there's a lot you can pick up just by watching him.

02:47And I was 11 when the match took place.

02:50So even at that time, I knew Bobby was kidding.

02:55I knew that it was an act.

02:57It was for show.

02:58You know, he was a great showman.

03:00He was a great promoter.

03:01It helped us.

03:02We had 90 million people watch it.

03:04Without him, we wouldn't have had it.

03:06I was thankful to him.

03:07But every time I see it, I'm just in awe of each of the actors and what they brought to it.

03:12It was just so authentic and so real and accurate.

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Emma Stone Says 'Battle of the Sexes' is About "Love, Social Change, & People Discovering Who They Are" | TIFF 2017

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