The actor shared her thoughts during an interview at Venice Film Festival, where she spoke to reporters about her latest sci-fi-comedy movie, Bugonia.

The movie follows two men who are obsessed with conspiracies, who become convinced that the CEO of a major company – played by Stone – is actually an alien who wants to destroy Earth.

Looking to bring her down, the men, played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, then proceed to kidnap the boss.

Naturally, this plot led some reporters at Venice on to the topic of aliens, and Stone decided to share her thoughts loud and clear.

Stone explained her reasoning, telling the crowd that she’d been inspired by astronomer Carl Sagan, who is known for his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

The La La Land actor said: “One of my favorite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan and I fell madly in love with his philosophy, science and how brilliant he is.”

Stone indicated she shared in Sagan’s stance on aliens, pointing out that to believe that our world is the only one with life is pretty big-headed of us.

She said: “He very deeply believed the idea that we’re alone in this vast expansive universe – not that we’re being watched – is a pretty narcissistic thing.”

Conspiracy theorists in the movie think Stone’s character is an alien (Focus Features)

One reporter also jokingly asked Stone how she manages to live in the spotlight as a celebrity without ‘turning into an alien’ herself, to which the 34-year-old took a leaf out of Bugonia’s book.

“How do you know I’m not an alien?” she responded.

“We all can relate to that feeling of someone thinking they know you, feeling like you don’t have much control of the avatar outside of me. Because there’s me, and then there’s me, here. There’s the person who comes here and then there’s the person who I am with my friends and family. They’re the same person, but it’s what I do to keep myself sane.”

Lots of people have shared how they’ve died and come back to life, often with the help of modern-day technology.

This time 100 years ago, people commonly died of things like influenza, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, while the average age somebody lived to across the globe was early to mid-30s, says Statista.

This has since increased to a global average of 72 years old — something one woman almost didn’t make it to after dying for 24 minutes.

That person is Lauren Canaday, and she took to Reddit a couple of years ago to detail her near-death experience and opened the floor to any questions.

“I went into sudden cardiac arrest at home this past February,” Lauren penned. “My husband called 911 and started CPR. It took 24 minutes for EMTs to resuscitate me. After 9 days in the ICU, I was declared ‘cognitively intact’ and have no visible brain damage on MRIs.”

“I also have a normal EEG despite a history of seizures and status epilepticus for over 30 minutes right after resuscitation,” she added.

One inquisitive individual proceeded to ask her if she remembers anything from when she was ‘dead’ for 24 minutes.

“I was in a coma for 2 days and when I woke up I was very confused about being intubated and didn’t have any short term memory for several more days,” Lauren went on to reply.

“I never regained memory of the week prior or most of the time in ICU and am foggy on about a month prior. I remember only a feeling of extreme peace that I honestly seriously miss!”

Apparently, this peaceful feeling stayed with her for a few weeks upon waking.

Lauren added that while she was still in the hospital, she kept forgetting why she was there.

Another person asked Lauren if she had to ‘grapple with any guilt or confusion about surviving’ — and she said that she ‘100%’ did.

She penned: “Yep. 100%. So much guilt/confusion. And grief to deal with all the consequences. Ugh. My emotional state was exceptionally poor for a while. I would not have gotten through it without my husband’s support.”

Lauren explained that she had to take a break from work after her near-death ordeal and, at the time of writing, was having weekly therapy and going to support groups.

She added: “It helps to meet people through the newsletter I started. That helps me process things. I email a lot with my subscribers.”

You can find Lauren’s Substack here.

While appearing on US talkshow Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last weekend, the 35-year-old (real name Colson Baker) began his surprising existential reflection after receiving a compliment from Cohen about his youthfulness.

“It’s a weird thing, dude. I don’t know if my age… I don’t know if it exists,” he stated.

Then came the UFO chat.

“I just don’t know many facts about my life. Like my skin, if it rips open, it heals really quick,” the musician revealed. “There’s just things where I’m starting to be like, ‘Who’s my dad?'”

Well, conventional wisdom says MGK‘s father was James Colson Baker. The musician was born in Houston, Texas to a pair of Christian missionaries and lived in far-flung countries like Egypt (learning Arabic before English), Kenya and Germany throughout his childhood, before traversing US states such as Denver and Ohio.

Machine Gun Kelly spoke to talkshow host Andy Cohen last weekend (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

MGK previously told Interview magazine his dad was ‘extremely religious and extremely strict, and wouldn’t even let me hold my pen the way I wanted to hold my pen’.

Except now he seems to think James Colson Baker wasn’t his father, and he has genetic roots in outer space.

Asked by Cohen if he thought he might be from another planet, the talkshow guest answered: “Yeah, I’ve asked my mom, ‘Was there any period of time you went missing, like off the Earth? Was there ever like a tall slender creature?’

“She told me she felt like she got abducted at one point.”

People on social media were naturally confused, with one writing: “The next time someone asks me, my age I’m gonna straight up say I don’t know.

“My mama may or may not have had a affair with an extra terrestrial being. Beats saying you’re in your 30s good God.”

Another quipped: “He doesn’t have a birth certificate? That would help.”

In more Earth-bound news, the star apparently turned down the opportunity to audition for period vampire horror Sinners for one key reason.

MGK says his mother claimed to have felt like she was once abducted by aliens (Instagram/@machinegunkelly)

Released back in April to the tune of almost $366m (£271m) in global box office takings, the film is set in the year 1932 and orbits identical twins Smoke and Stack, who come home to Mississippi after building a reputation as ruthless members of the Chicago mob.

Their vision is to operate a brand-new juke joint (or music venue), but on opening night, their joy descends into hell as a pack of vampires show up.

In a July episode of The Pat McAfee Show, MGK explained that the film’s casting director expected him to recite a racial slur during his screen test, and that’s where he pulled the plug.

“Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that,” he said. “The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition – it’s the one that’s in the house, so he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family.”

MGK seemed to be referencing the KKK member eventually played on screen by Peter Dreimanis, who is turned by the Irish bloodsucker Remmick (Jack O’Connell).

“I wouldn’t [say the n-word],” noted MGK. “I have a lot of aspirations to be in movies, it just hasn’t panned out that way. It’ll align. The angels will put something in the works.”

To be fair to the guy, his Hollywood aspirations have been fulfilled on several occasions.

In 2018 he portrayed the character Felix in Netflix‘s super popular Bird Box, and two years later he was credited in both The King of Staten Island and Project Power – the latter starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

On August 24, 2017, Jeremy Evans ventured into the Alberta woods in Canada in an attempt to hunt a ram.

However, instead of finding a ram, the maintenance supervisor ended up running into a bear, and nearly lost his life.

As he was out hunting, Jeremy noticed ‘a little brown thing’ run right in front of him, ‘less than 10 feet away’. He quickly came to the realization it wasn’t a ram, but a grizzly bear cub.

Jeremy previously told UNILAD he reached down to try and grab his bear spray from his backpack, but before he could find it, the cub’s mother came into sight.

In a bid to scare the bear away, Jeremy threw his bicycle at her and struck her, ending up with some ‘pretty big holes’ in his hand.

(Supplied)

The bear eased off briefly, but then ‘came charging back in a second time,’ and so Jeremy ran for his life, leaping into a tree.

But the mom bear ‘wrapped her paws around’ his right leg before he was able to get to a safe height.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Jeremy said: “My left eye was hanging out of the socket. It was facing down. In order to really see, I either had to lift up my eye or lean my head way back.

“I remember feeling my face and nothing felt the same. My jaw was hanging down on the left side and all my teeth were exposed.”

After the bear left the scene, Jeremy’s ravaged body dropped to the ground. He couldn’t see, his vision having been impaired by the attack, but he managed to crawl back through the woods and find his bag and gun.

Jeremy was left fighting for his life (Supplied)

The first things he came across were his moustache and goatee, a chunk of his face and his ear, ripped away entirely by the bear.

Jeremy was left convinced he wasn’t going to make it out of there alive, so pulled out his phone and wrote some final messages to his wife.

“Whoever finds this please let my wife know I tried to make it,” one message shared with UNILAD read. “But there is [no] chance, that bear really [f***ed] me up.”

In another text, Jeremy wrote: “I am pretty sure this is the end. I am very tired and I feel like I am going to pass out. If I do I won’t wake up.”

Following the attack, Jeremy has undergone five major surgeries and another 15 minor procedures, though it isn’t just the physical damage that has taken its toll.

He understandably developed PTSD, and has had years of therapy in a bid to overcome the horrid attack.

Maxwell currently remains in prison after being sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was found guilty in 2021 of luring teenage girls for disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Despite being in prison, she recently sat down with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to speak about Epstein and the individuals he had interacted with.

Details of President Donald Trump’s and Epstein’s friendship remains a hot topic in his second term and has only increased since he called on his followers to stop talking about the financier and the alleged ‘Epstein files’.

This desire from Trump to move on from Epstein comes after the DOJ and FBI released a memo in July saying that they found no evidence Epstein was murdered or that he had a ‘client list’, referred to as the Epstein files.

Maxwell has spoken in more depth about her relationship with Epstein (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Maxwell also said in her interview she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate or heard stories of inappropriate acts.

She also touched on the official ruling that Epstein killed himself, stating she doesn’t believe that to be the case.

During the interview, Maxwell also explained that while she was romantically involved with Epstein, the financial transactional nature of their relationship continued after they were no longer romantically involved.

She said as late as 2008 or 2009, Epstein paid her around $250,000 a year until he went to jail.

She said: “He had never stopped paying me.”

Maxwell did not start on this figure however and noted what she remembers being paid from the start of her employment under Epstein.

Maxwell also spoke about the moment she knew her relationship with Epstein was truly over(Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

She said: “My memory is that I got paid $25,000 a year to begin with. That’s my memory, I may be wrong.”

She also went into greater detail about their romantic relationship and when she knew it was over.

“By 1999 our relationship had foundered. We stopped having sexual relations in 1999, not full sex.”

She said when he refused to visit her after the 9/11 attacks she knew their relationship was completely over.

She said ‘he wouldn’t see me at all’ on the day of the attacks on New York City despite only being a few blocks away.

She added: “And then I knew, as anyone did at that time, if you’re not going to be there for someone in 9/11, you’re never going to be there.”