For Stone and McCary’s small outdoor wedding in 2020, Ghesquière created both Stone’s wedding dress and a feathered reception minidress, the latter of which she didn’t wear because social-distance rules precluded a real party. She decided to give it an encore at the 2022 Met Gala.
“That dress was a lifetime memory,” Ghesquière says. “I’m proud to have a friend like that.”
Stone-McCary is a union born of Saturday Night Live—in 2016, McCary, then a staff writer, directed her in a satirical commercial called “Wells for Boys,” in which Stone played the doting mother of a comically sensitive son. Their relationship went public with a courtside appearance at an LA Clippers game in early 2019. The couple remain devoted sports fans, Stone converting McCary into a supporter of her beloved Phoenix Suns; McCary turning Stone into a die-hard for the San Diego Padres.
SNL remains a through line. Stone describes herself as an SNL “WAG,” and has been part of the show for a long time, says its creator, Lorne Michaels. “So when you see her at the studio, you’re not surprised. She’s completely comfortable.”
“All my heroes growing up were SNL people,” says Stone. “Of course, I’m not ‘cast member’ material.” (Michaels disagrees: “Oh yeah—she’s a star. That was evident early.”)
For SNL’s 50th anniversary in February, Stone did a jump-kick onstage with Molly Shannon’s quinquagenarian Sally O’Malley, and her dress, designed by Ghesquière, had hip-side popcorn buckets as an homage to the kernel-loving Michaels.
Today, Stone and McCary have a joint production company, Fruit Tree. Like Stone’s acting choices, Fruit Tree’s slate is impossible to pigeonhole: three films from longtime Stone friend Jesse Eisenberg, who refers to Stone as his “fairy godmother”; comedies with Julio Torres; a raw documentary called The Yogurt Shop Murders. The company also coproduced The Curse, which brought Stone together with Fielder (who wrote the series with Benny Safdie). She’s a massive fan of Fielder’s other series The Rehearsal. “I want him to win a Nobel,” she says.
“I’m drawn to material that asks more questions than gives you answers,” Stone says. “I think critical thinking is the most valuable resource that a person can have, and I like that feeling of being asked to answer things for myself.” At Eisenberg’s urging, Stone recently dove into When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut’s 2020 book on morality and science. When we speak, she’s halfway through Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country.
