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Emma Stone Was Almost Julie Taylor on 'Friday Night Lights'


Emma Stone auditioned for the role of Julie Taylor on ‘Friday Night Lights’ and was ‘devastated’ when she lost the job to Aimee Teegarden

“When I was auditioning in L.A. when I was 15, I got a couple [of] callbacks for Friday Night Lights for Coach Taylor’s daughter,” Stone, 35, said on the Thursday, June 20, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Bissinger ’s 1990 book and 2004 movie of the same name, followed a high school football team in Dillon, Texas, led by Coach Eric Taylor ( Kyle Chandler). Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor and Aimee Teegarden as Julie Taylor.Bill Records/NBCWhile Stone didn’t make it to Dillon, Texas, she landed her big break in 2007 when she starred in the films Superbad and The House Bunny.

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