Emma Stone/Nathan Fielder/Safdies - Showtime's 'The Curse'

I'd rather the Safdies don't do TV, but that premise is gold. I'm in. 

Why? TV is such a great medium right now.

dude, this is probably just a minor project/diversion for them, you make it sound like they'll just be doing TV the rest of their careers. they'll surely have plenty of films to come, calm down

She dropped out of Babylon for this???
LOOOOL!!

i'm more interested in this than Babylon...Emma has some taste I see.

lol, I forgot what the G was for a second. Silly me

I mean, it's still a TV series, not a good move for a movie actress career wise.

Almost none of them that have made the jump have the opportunities of an Emma Stone, though. If Stone really did turn down a prime role from someone like Chazelle because she thought this was a better opportunity, it would perhaps be a first.

I kind of doubt someone that has just done a Zombieland sequel and a live-action Cruella is not wanting to work with Chazelle a mere 2nd time because she thinks it will be a creative hindrance. I haven't read the script for Babylon and I could be completely wrong, but if there is nudity involved with the role, maybe she's just not comfortable with some of those scenes immediately post-pregnancy. By all accounts, Babylon is basically The Wolf of Silent Era Hollywood. Maybe somebody that has read the Babylon script will be able to answer this better.

But he didn't turn down a plum role from an A-list movie director to do True Detective instead, did he? He did True Detective in addition to his 10-minute role in a Scorsese movie.

Streep has incredible opportunities for an actress her age, but even she doesn't have the opportunities of Emma Stone right now. Also, like with McConaughey, I don't think she turned down a plum role for an A-list movie director to go do Television. She just fit Television in her schedule between movies.

But I just want to draw notice to the two implicit caveats to my post. One, that doing some Television here and there is not quite the same as making a jump to something. McConaughey and Streep are still primarily film actors. Two, I did say "almost none" and not "none".

I don't think it's a bad career move to do this, by itself. Something is better than nothing, and this does have some good talent surrounding it. I just think it's questionable to do it at the expense of something like Babylon, unless she had more personal reasons for turning it down (if she did turn it down) like the possible nudity.

I think it’s unlikely that Stone bowed out of Babylon so she could do this project. I’d guess other factors were in play.

Well, you never know. Stone could have been reticent about the script (or character) for Babylon or disliked it, but initially accepted it because of a certain trust and sense of obligation to Chazelle because of the success of their previous collaboration. That kind of thing happens all the time. Ryan Gosling got roped into Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn, because Drive turned out so well. But the follow-up movie ended up being a disaster, and maybe he regretted doing it just because their first collaboration worked out. Sometimes, people look for any reason they can to get out of projects they are not sure about.