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The National ENQUIRER caught Emma Stone coming out of her trailer while starring in "Battle of the Sexes" — where the actress goes retro as Billie Jean King! Emma's sporting a very different look from earlier in the week, when she sported a daring dress among weirder outfits at the annual Met Gala!
Photo credit: Splash News
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Naomi watts, Emma Stone, Rose Byrne, and celebrities arrive at the 2016 Met Gala, Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
It's a very different Emma who's starring as tennis pro Billie Jean in the big-screen recreation of her epic 1973 tennis match against self-proclaimed "chauvinist pig" Bobby Riggs!
Photo credit: Splash News
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Billie Jean, then 29, won her "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against Riggs — with the 29-year-old tennis champ outscoring her 55-year-old opponent in three straight sets. It was a different time for tennis stars,with Billie Jean seen here showing off her white lace dress that she wore for Wimbledon the next year.
Photo credit: Getty Images
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EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone prepares for a ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
Emma is sporting an outfit that looks more like the 1970s as most people remember them. The Oscar nominee is co-starring with Steve Carell in the role of Riggs — as she moves on from her days playing doomed girlfriend Gwen Stacy in the recent "Spider-Man" franchise.
Photo credit: Splash News
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BIllie Jean would later make headlines when her lesbian love life was exposed in a "galimony" suit — with her former secretary Marilyn Barnett claiming they'd carried on a nine-year lesbian love match. Billie Jean is seen here with fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who endured her own 1991 lawsuit when a lesbian lover sued her over earnings in 1991.
Photo credit: Getty Images
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EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone prepares for a ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
That scandal will have to be an epilogue to "Battle of the Sexes," though. Emma's playing Billie Jean back when she was still married to fellow tennis player Larry King. And while Billie Jean later said that the "galimony" suit made her "lose everything," she soon found new fame as an openly gay sports figure — and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2009!
Photo credit: Splash News
emma stone billie jean king 1
The National ENQUIRER caught Emma Stone coming out of her trailer while starring in "Battle of the Sexes" — where the actress goes retro as Billie Jean King! Emma's sporting a very different look from earlier in the week, when she sported a daring dress among weirder outfits at the annual Met Gala!
Photo credit: Splash News
Naomi watts, Emma Stone, Rose Byrne, and celebrities arrive at the 2016 Met Gala, Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
It's a very different Emma who's starring as tennis pro Billie Jean in the big-screen recreation of her epic 1973 tennis match against self-proclaimed "chauvinist pig" Bobby Riggs!
Photo credit: Splash News
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean, then 29, won her "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against Riggs — with the 29-year-old tennis champ outscoring her 55-year-old opponent in three straight sets. It was a different time for tennis stars,with Billie Jean seen here showing off her white lace dress that she wore for Wimbledon the next year.
Photo credit: Getty Images
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone prepares for a ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
Emma is sporting an outfit that looks more like the 1970s as most people remember them. The Oscar nominee is co-starring with Steve Carell in the role of Riggs — as she moves on from her days playing doomed girlfriend Gwen Stacy in the recent "Spider-Man" franchise.
Photo credit: Splash News
n120299_king_navratilova
BIllie Jean would later make headlines when her lesbian love life was exposed in a "galimony" suit — with her former secretary Marilyn Barnett claiming they'd carried on a nine-year lesbian love match. Billie Jean is seen here with fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who endured her own 1991 lawsuit when a lesbian lover sued her over earnings in 1991.
Photo credit: Getty Images
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone prepares for a ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
That scandal will have to be an epilogue to "Battle of the Sexes," though. Emma's playing Billie Jean back when she was still married to fellow tennis player Larry King. And while Billie Jean later said that the "galimony" suit made her "lose everything," she soon found new fame as an openly gay sports figure — and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2009!
Photo credit: Splash News