"It's the most important to stick up for people and for peace," she said. "We have to use our platforms. What's the point of being at these big events if you're not going to use your privilege?"
Emma Stone is one of the latest Hollywood figures to sign a pledge not to "screen films, appear at, or otherwise work with" Israeli film institutions that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." Film Workers for Palestine published the pledge - which invokes the work of Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, the 1980s initiative co-founded by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese in response to apartheid in South Africa - in a September 8 open letter with more than 1,000 initial signatories.