Emma Stone is "obsessed" with her role on Broadway.
The 26-year-old actress recently took over from Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret' and admits she has wanted to play the part since she was a child.
She said: "I've wanted to play Sally Bowles since I was 10, and saw Natasha Richardson in 'Cabaret'.
"I don't think I've ever been so truly obsessed with a character or a story. I can't believe it's actually happening.
"Rob Marshall [co-director with Sam Mendes] said to me that Sally is like 'Hamlet' for women."
Emma's co-star Alan Cumming also thinks Emma's role is very special because her alter-ego is so "vulnerable" but also "funny".
He told Vanity Fair magazine: "It's unusual for young actresses to get such completeness in a role. Sally is vulnerable, tragic, funny, unlikable, heartbreaking. And then she gets whacked across the face with an epiphany."
Emma previously admitted she was terrified of taking on the role.
The 'Birdman' star said: "I'm scared s***less! But I've wanted to play that part since I was, strangely, nine years old, which is way too young."

Adele ignored Sir Bob Geldof's Band Aid phone calls.
The 'Skyfall' hitmaker is said to have been approached by the charity record's organisers and Bob, 63, countless times but refused to respond to their efforts to get her to participate.
He told The Sun newspaper: "Adele is doing nothing. She's not answering the phone.
"She's not writing. She's not recording. She doesn't want to be bothered by anyone."
In spite of the efforts of the Boomtown Rats star and songwriter Midge Ure, Adele, 26, "didn't even bother" to explain her decision to turn down their offer.
A Band Aid source said: "We made 100 phone calls to Adele because Bob and Midge were desperate for her to take part.
"But it was complete radio silence back. She didn't even bother to say she couldn't do it."
The 'I Don't Like Mondays' hitmaker believes the Grammy Award-winner - who has two-year-old son Angelo with her partner Simon Konecki - is too busy being a mum.
He said: "She won't even pick up the phone to her manager. She's bringing up a family, you know.
"Some people just don't want to do it.
"Of course they agree with it, but it's not their way of doing something."
After seeing the turn out for this year's single - a play on the original 'Do They Know It's Christmas' to raise money for the Ebola crisis in Africa - which features One Direction, U2's Bono, Ellie Goulding and Coldplay's Chris Martin, Bob isn't sure they could have fitted any more artists in the studio.
He said: "Some people just don't think that they could make any impact at all by coming along.
"What can we do that will possibly make it any better?
"And frankly, if we had any more people in this room we wouldn't get it done.
"It's f***ing rammed. You can't move, you know."

Kerry Katona worries her life will always be a "car crash".
The 'Atomic Kitten' star - who recently married George Kay, with whom she has a seven-month-old daughter, Dylan-Jorge - has confessed she still thinks her life is going to "be s**t at times."
The 34-year-old singer - who has struggled with drug addiction in the past - told The Daily Star newspaper: "Life throws all kinds of hurdles at you and I'm sure there is going to be much, much more to come my way as time goes on.
"Because that's life.
"I've had so much bad luck over the years but that's the way it goes.
"I just know my life is going to be s*** at times."
Kerry married George, 34, in September this year just two months after he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act following a very public meltdown outside the couple's £2million Oxfordshire mansion.
The star added that although she is hoping to find her fairytale ending with him, she can't predict that their marriage will last forever.
She said: "We've not got this perfect relationship, this fairytale Cinderella happy ending. It doesn't exist.
"We will argue. My mood swings can be outrageous. But it is how you deal with the problem and how you react as a couple. And being a team. And working at it.
"I can't predict this marriage is going to last forever. If there are two people in a relationship and one wants to get out there's nothing I can do to control that.
"But I'm an old-fashioned person. I believe in that fairytale wedding. It hasn't worked in the past but does that mean I have to give up on it? I'm giving this one a go."

Jennifer Aniston loved acting out her "wild fantasies" in 'Horrible Bosses 2'.
The 45-year-old actress reprises her role as sexually predatory dentist Julia in the comedy sequel and while she found some of her alter ego's antics "shocking", she had fun letting go of her inhibitions.
She told LOOK magazine: "It was kind of shocking for me. But I loved the character and the writing was so good that it gives you the chance to really let loose and not feel inhibited in any way.
"I think we all have strange thoughts or moments where you imagine what it would be like to get really wild.
"It's very rare that you ever get to act out those kinds of fantasies and that's why acting can be so stimulating really, because it's the very nature of the process to totally throw yourself into the mind of the character."
And Jennifer - who is engaged to Justin Theroux - particularly enjoyed working on the sequel because it meant spending time with her close friend Jason Bateman.
She said: "Jason and I have been friends for a long time and we always enjoy spending time together.
"I love working with him because we can't stop each other from laughing sometimes. It's like having this ongoing rapport because we know each other so well and we don't really have any secrets from each other.
"These friendships are pretty rare in life and I really value having Jason as someone I've known over the years."

Olly Murs is hoping he can now be viewed as a "credible artist".
The 30-year-old pop star shot to fame when he came second on 'The X Factor' in 2009 but he thinks he has now established himself enough to go in a new musical direction and set up more collaborations that will help him be taken seriously away from his reality TV background.
He said: "Working with Paul Weller [on a new song, 'Met Me In'] showed my fans the direction I see my music going in.
"It's been five years since I was on 'X Factor' and I feel I'm starting to be seen as a more credible artist.
"I'd love to work with Stevie Wonder, that would be the ultimate, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. I've already performed with Madness, Gary Barlow and Robbie, so I'm not doing too badly."
The 'Troublemaker' hitmaker also ruled out using his relationship with Francesca Thomas as inspiration for his songs.
He told Britain's HELLO! magazine: "It can be a bit tricky when you write about someone. I have done in the past and I suppose the odd thing may come from her, but most of it is general ideas where I might come into the studio in a bad mood and say, 'I want to write an angry song.'
"It can cause more problems if it is about a person."

Katherine Jenkins "can't wait" to have children.
The 34-year-old singer tied the knot with filmmaker-and-artist Andrew Levitas in September after less than a year of dating and now she is looking forward to starting a family with him.
She said: "I think I annoy people because I'm so happy - I can't stop smiling. I love being a wife.
"I can't wait to have kids, I can't wait to be a family if and when - god willing - that happens."
Though she has only been married a few weeks, the blonde beauty thinks she is a very good wife.
She said: "I think I'm a good wife because I'm loving, supportive and very romantic and because I absolutely love being married to him."
While the couple only had a short courtship, Katherine admits both she and Andrew knew they wanted to marry very early into their relationship.
She told Britain's HELLO! magazine: "Pretty much every relationship I've ever had has lasted five years and for me to marry a man after knowing him for such a short time wasn't something anyone could have guessed.
"But I just knew. He knew. Within a few dates we knew it.
"In my job, for good and bad reasons, I've become a very good judge of character and so I was very sure it was right."

Lena Dunham gets "depressed" over "glossy" sex scenes.
The 'Girls' creator has no problem with getting intimate on screen and admits she wants to promote a more realistic portrayal of love making than is usually shown in film or on TV.
She said: "I get depressed with the sex scenes that we see, which are glossy bodies with the negligee, having unrealistic sex."
And the 28-year-old actress admits she has always been comfortable flashing her flesh as a way to deter people from poking fun at her curvy figure.
She told Grazia magazine: "When I was a teenager, I grew up in New York and it was really image focused.
"My high school was rife with eating disorders. Our idea of a fat girl, at high school, was me. That experience of suddenly entering ninth grade and putting on 35lbs... I went from being a skinny kid to a chubby teenager, so I started thinking about ways to reclaim my body.
"I remember getting in trouble in a high school play - this is so gross - for playing with my belly fat. My teacher was like, 'You really hammed it up on stage, you took attention away from Sonia's play and this shows a very strange relationship to your own body.'
"Part of me was going, 'I'd like everyone to laugh at me right now'. But also, part of it was I didn't want other people to have the first laugh."

Kylie Jenner wants to be a rapper.
The 17-year-old reality TV star has reportedly been working with her rumoured new boyfriend Tyga in the recording studio, as she wants to follow in Iggy Azalea's footsteps.
A source close to the 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star said: "Kylie wants to be a rapper - she loves Iggy Azalea and thinks she could be on her level, with Tyga's help."
Kylie's parents, Kris and Bruce Jenner, are said to be amused by her career goals, but Tyga thinks she has potential.
The insider added to US Star magazine: "He actually thinks Kylie has some talent but tells her she needs to polish her lyrics before he'll agree to do a song with her."
Earlier this year, Kylie dismissed rumours she wanted to be "the next Katy Perry" after a friend claimed: "Kylie is now working on her first single! She is telling everyone that she knows she is going to be the next Katy Perry."
She wrote on Twitter: "I respect everyone's art! but I don't want to be the next anybody. I just want to be the next Kylie Jenner."

Lauren Platt wants to duet with Ella Eyre.
The 17-year-old singer is a huge fan of the 'Comeback' singer and if she makes it into the 'X Factor' final - when the hopefuls have to perform with an established artist - she would love to get the chance to sing with her idol.
Asked who she would want to duet with on the show's final, she said: "Ella Eyre. I'm her biggest fan. I met her at a party the other night and it's the first time I've felt starstruck. She's so cool and wished me luck on the show."
Lauren is mentored on the show by Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and loves having the support of such an "amazing" person because she helps calm her nerves.
She said: "Cheryl is amazing, just so cool. She's chilled about everything.
"Even on a Sunday night before we go on stage for the results she says, 'What will be will be'. That puts me in a chilled mindset and stops me panicking.
"Then I'll see her backstage with her husband."
And Cheryl's spouse, Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini has also helped Lauren feel at ease.
She added to Now magazine: "[Jean-Bernard] is so cool and lovely, just like Cheryl. I'll go into her dressing room panicking about something and he's like, 'Lauren, just chill.' "

Susan Boyle has "learned strategies" to cope with Asperger's syndrome.
The 53-year-old singer - who came second in the 2009 edition of 'Britain's Got Talent' and has since gone on to enjoy considerable worldwide success - was recently diagnosed with the condition, but insists she's finding ways of coping with it.
She said: "You always feel that eyes are on you. It is getting better though.
"Since the diagnosis, I've learned strategies for coping and the best one is to just walk away. If I feel I'm going to take a mood swing, I get up and leave."
Susan explained that her on-stage confidence is markedly different to who she is off stage.
She said: "On stage I am a different person. I feel accepted. I feel safe there. I don't feel judged.
"People with Asperger's put up a barrier because they don't know how to trust. I want to let people in."
Meanwhile, the 'I Dreamed a Dream' hitmaker recently admitted she wants to play a fairy in a pantomime, but would settle for the part of a villain.
She said: "I'd love to be a fairy in a pantomime. I'd like to be the baddy. I'd love to do that yeah. I'm available for pantomime. Can you imagine me with a pair of wings?
"I plan to have a break first of all. After that, go and do another tour in Australia somewhere like that."

Khloe Kardashian has heaped praise on Kendall Jenner for "living what you've dreamed".
Kendall, 19, has just been named the new face of beauty brand Estee Lauder - which ranks as another major landmark in her burgeoning career as a model - and half-sister Khloe, 30, has been quick to hail her younger sibling's latest achievement.
She posted on Instagram: "I am literally jumping up-and-down with pride and joy for my baby sister!!!!! @kendalljenner is the new face of @esteelauder!!! (sic)"
Khloe added: "It takes so much courage to actually go ahead and conquer your dreams. Most people just talk about what they want to do. You are actually living what you've dreamed you'd always do! Proud of you baby girl."
Last month, meanwhile, Kourtney Kardashian described Kendall as her "favourite family member."
Kourtney, 35, said she was extremely proud of her half-sister for carving out a successful career as a model.
In a joint interview with her sister Khloe, the 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star told E! News: "She is my favourite family member, besides Khloé. I love her."
Asked about Kendall's success, Khloe said: "I don't know... it's bizarre."

Bob Geldof was "blown away" by the performance of One Direction on the Band Aid 30 single.
The 'Steal My Girl' hitmakers - made up of Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Liam Payne - were among the impressive array of stars who helped record the song in London earlier today (15.11.14), and Bob, 63, revealed he was moved by their part in the much-anticipated tune.
He reflected: "It's beautiful, seriously. That is the hardest one to do because people know the song so they are worried they're going to mess it up and they didn't at all.
"It was so sad what they did. I never expected that from them.
"Harry Styles wanted to play it back so I did and it's very moving. They are whispering."
The lyrics of the new song have been penned by Midge Ure and Emeli Sande, who revealed Bob helped to inspire the various acts before they started recording.
She explained: "Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing so I think that really got everybody in the mind-frame that we needed to be in to remind us it's fun, but that we're here for a really serious reason."
The lyrics to the new song - which will raise money to fight Ebola - show a few minor tweaks have been made to the original 'Do They Know It's Christmas'.
A new line reads: "Where a kiss of love can kill you - And there's death at every tear."
Another reads: "Well tonight we're reaching out, and touching you."