It was like something out of a romantic comedy

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Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence became friends in the most romantic-comedy of ways, Lawrence told Vanity Fair. Their mutual co-star Woody Harrelson (of The Hunger Games with Lawrence, and Zombieland with Stone) thought they’d be a good match and gave Lawrence’s phone number to Stone.

“‘She texted me that she got my number from Woody,” Lawrence recalled. “I replied: ‘Fuck off!’ And we’ve been really good friends ever since.”

They texted every day for a year after that, Lawrence said. “I feel like it was our version of The Notebook — 365 texts.”

“She may not even know this,” Stone said in an email to Vanity Fair, “but there was definitely a time early on when I was like ‘OH HEY MY EGO IS GOING NUTS SHE’S SO GREAT AND VIBRANT AND TALENTED I’M SCREWED I’LL NEVER WORK AGAIN GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.’ Then I chilled the fuck out, and remembered we’re completely different and there is room for everyone, even if it’s an industry that doesn’t really seem to support that idea up front. We both really do love each other and care about each other as people, beyond being actors. I support her completely when it comes to work and I feel the same from her, but I know we’d be friends even if we didn’t do the same job.”

Of Lawrence, Stone had this praise: “She has unbelievable clarity. She can witness a situation or meet a person and see through the entire thing almost instantly. It’s stunning.”