For Emma Stone, hiccups are the one thing that could bring everything to a halt.
While promoting Eddington, her latest film directed by Ari Aster, the actress appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, June 26, and opened up to guest host Diego Luna about a unique fear she has when performing.
Around the two-minute mark of their conversation, Luna asked the two-time Oscar winner if there was anything that makes her nervous before going live.
“There’s one thing that’s always stuck in my mind that I think might happen on live television—and now that I’m talking about it, it probably will,” Stone said. “But I’m always afraid I’m going to get the hiccups.”
The La La Land star says she constantly dreads the idea of getting hiccups during a “serious” or “intense” scene—moments where there’s just no room to laugh it off.
“I’m always afraid I’m about to get the hiccups because once they start, they go on for hours,” Stone said.
She didn’t hold back, calling hiccups “horrible” and even labeling them her “least favorite thing.” She and Diego Luna, trying to ward off the jinx, knocked on wood. “I mean, there are worse things than this, but not to me,” she joked.
Though she’s managed to avoid a hiccup disaster onstage, one of her more awkward moments came at the 2017 Golden Globes. As La La Land director Damien Chazelle won for Best Screenplay, Stone went in for a hug—only for him to bypass her and embrace his now-wife, Olivia Hamilton. The moment, funnily enough, involved Luna as well, who co-presented the award.
