Emma Stone just got engaged to writer and director Dave McCary; the couple made the announcement on McCary’s Instagram, posing together with the diamond ring (speculated to be worth upwards of $35,000) featured prominently in the foreground. The post is quite the departure from the couple’s usual behavior; they rarely make public statements about their relationship, and have only appeared at events together a handful of times in the two years they have been dating.
The pair met on the set of Saturday Night Live back in 2016, when the actress was a guest host, and reportedly began dating the following year. Stone and McCary collaborated on one of that episode’s most memorable sketches: the fake toy commercial for “Wells for Boys.” McCary directed the segment (written by Julio Torres and Jeremy Beiler), in which Stone played the doting mother of an exceptionally sensitive young boy.
McCary was hired as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live for its 39th season in 2014, joining the show alongside his old buddies Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney, who were cast as featured performers. The three had previously been part of the sketch comedy troupe Good Neighbor, which McCary founded while he was in college, and which produced cringe gold such as this homage to the drunk bro toast:
In 2017, McCary wrote and directed the movie Brigsby Bear, which also starred Mooney, as well as Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh and Star Wars legend Mark Hamill. In suitably weird fashion (which we’re starting to see is McCary’s wheelhouse), the film follows a young man who lives in an underground bunker with his parents, who are later revealed to have kidnapped him as a child.
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