This Is Why Emma Stone Had to Dye Her Red Hair Brown Before the Oscars

From ELLE

Emma Stone started her award season run with her signature red hair, then last week switched it to brown.

At the SAG Awards, she was back to a darker red, but don't expect her hair to become any lighter or redder. The color change wasn't just because she felt like switching up her look during her Oscar campaign for The Favourite. She had to dye it that color.

The reason why was revealed yesterday: It's because she's shooting Zombieland 2 now, and her character originally had dark red-brown hair. Zombieland showed a 10-year challenge of its cast-and confirmed production is ongoing-on Twitter yesterday. Stone is pretty ageless, and the hair completes the look:

Stone, who is naturally a blonde, has dyed her hair for years depending on the role she has. When she was playing Gwen Stacey in the Spider-Man films and more recently, Annie Landsberg in Netflix's Maniac, she had platinum hair that she'd keep during her red carpet events:

When she was playing Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes, she had brown hair:

But for roles like La La Land, she got to keep her signature red hair she's known for.

Stone explained in a 2010 interview with The Independent how her hair color affected the roles she got, especially when she was starting out. "When I first moved to LA, I had this agent who thought, because I was blonde, that I only wanted to play cheerleaders," she said. "So she'd send me out for all these parts where they thought: 'What a weird 15-year-old. Its not going to work out!' I don't know if anyone necessarily underestimated me as a blonde-I think I just had a crappy agent. So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair color changes everything!' Then, for Superbad, my hair was brown at the test, but Judd said to dye it red, and I've mostly had red hair ever since."

Stone confirmed in an interview with Stylecastersix years ago that red is her preferred color, years after first dyeing it that hue. “I identify most with red hair," she said. "My mom’s a redhead, so maybe I grew up seeing it more than seeing myself in a mirror. But I like blonde, too. It’s just hair.”

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