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Emma Stone has risen up the ranks in the last few years to become Hollywood’s newest it-girl. She has become a bona fide favorite in the comedy genre with films like Superbad, The Rocker, The House Bunny, and The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, Zombieland, and Easy A.

Now the 22 year-old goes for a more mature role as Hannah Weaver in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid Love. In the film, Hannah is jaded to the charms of pick-up artist Jacob Palmer, played by Ryan Gosling, but ends up becoming won over by him. There is one scene where Jacob lifts Hannah in the air a la Dirty Dancing. Emma was asked if Ryan actually lifted her up in the air for the scene.

“Once,” Stone replies, “I did have a panic attack. That was a stunt double, from a distance. We tried a couple of times, but it didn’t end up working out for me.”

Stone was then asked if Gosling dropped her.

“No, he didn’t do anything wrong,” Emma replies, “He keeps thinking that I was afraid that he was going to drop me. Did you see how strong he was? He was pretty muscly. He was fine. But it was just, when I was seven, I was in gymnastics class and I was standing in the parallel bars and the woman let go of my ankles and I fell forward and I broke both of my arms on the mat. And I had this dormant, primal fear that I didn’t realize until he was lifting me over his head and I was over the front.”

“My arms immediately went like, no,” she adds, “My body knew, this could break your arms, so I panicked. I really had like a full-scale, hour-long, primal fear panic attack. It was bizarre, but they were so nice about it. Glenn Ficarra, one of the directors, and Ryan were sitting with me. I’m like sitting in a bed in the house we were

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shooting in, rubbing my back, like, ‘You’re alright. We’ll get the stunt double to do it.’ It was crazy.”

Emma talks about how she first felt about reading the script for the film.

“I think it’s so rare that you read an original script ever that isn’t sequel, prequel, threequel,” she believes, “So that’s always exciting from the jumping-off point. But it also covers so many different types and it just talks about all those grey areas. You know, I love that Hanna goes with Jacob.”

“It’s always the reverse,” Stone continues, “She is with Jacob, then she ends up with Richard, and this is the opposite. This woman cheated on her husband and you’re rooting for them to get back together. I mean, how often does that happen? But there’s so many grey areas when you get to see these relationships and I thought it was fantastic to see an original romantic comedy. I think it’s so rare.”

Stone was asked if she ever received a pick-up line from a guy.

“Not really,” Emma answers, “I mean where? Walking down the street? I don’t go to a lot of bars. So here we go, yes?”

Emma claims that she does not even know guys who use pick-up lines on women.

“Well, I know a lot of guys, to be honest with you, that don’t pick up women in that way or have figured out that the women figured that out a long time ago and have outsmarted the situation,” Stone says, “Although I do see the game a lot, you know that? The insult, compliment, insult, compliment, insult, compliment, so that’s the new pick-up line, the game, it works.”

Stone was then asked what was the worst pick-up line she had ever heard.

“I wish I had a better answer to this question,” Emma says, “I don’t know. I didn’t think that people were still using pick-up lines. Isn’t that a big thing that Jacob says in the movie, that pick-up lines are

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the worst? It’s funny that people are asking about pick-up lines because this movie is about not using pick-up lines. But Jacob has game. He does indeed.”

Emma says that she enjoyed the fact with Crazy, Stupid Love that it was the woman who got what she wanted with the man rather than the other way around.

“It was great,” Stone says, “The tables turned. He was the one who was shirtless and I’m wearing all my clothes. It’s fantastic. I mean I really enjoy their dynamic, yeah.”

Stone was asked how buff Ryan Gosling was, who claimed that his chiseled physique in the film was Photoshopped.

“Oh, for the love…” Emma replies, in disbelief, “Yeah, absolutely, he was. It’s got to be a lot of pressure when you read a script and your character is described as looking Photoshopped. Because that was in the script, Hanna saying like, ‘You’re Photoshopped.’ So I’m sure when he’s playing Jacob, he’s got that line ringing in his head while he’s working out.”

Emma was asked if she did find Ryan’s character Jacob attractive.

“Why not him?” Stone replies, “For the record, absolutely. Absolutely. He starts out as a guy going through something that he really hasn’t examined, just like Hanna. They are in different kinds of…They are both people that haven’t really looked on what are they doing with their lives. And then they kind of force each other to see who they really truly are, which for both of them is pretty vulnerable, goofy people, I think.”

Stone also stated what kind of guy she’s attracted to.

“Vulnerability and honesty,” Emma says, “I don’t like that whole where you can sense they are not telling you something strong. I think it’s a lot sexier and a lot stronger when they admit what they are afraid of. That’s probably the only one and humor, of course. Anybody would say that, but that’s huge.”

Emma says that she felt little discomfort doing a comedy, as she

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reveals that she’s always had the funny bone in her.

“No, I was like the obnoxious ham from five years old on,” she claims, “If I lived in medieval times, I’d think I’d be a court jester or something like that, absolutely. That was always the goal to make people laugh. That was my survival method. I don’t think I was that funny. I think I just was kind of obnoxious. I think I was loud. It mirrors very much my life now.”

“I was this kid,” Stone continues, “I was around certain people that were really on, so around my mother, I was really on. So that was really annoying when you are a kid, because you’re around your mother all the time. I was like, ‘Da da da da da! Da da da da da!’ And she was always the dry, like ‘OK, Em. Alright, Em, OK.’ And I was like, ‘I can do this and I can do that!’ And my friends would be sitting in the back of the car like, ‘Ugh, oh, boy!’ So she was my first straight man.”

As proof of her comic timing, Stone had this to say when she was asked for her reaction to magazines calling her Hollywood’s It-Girl of the summer.

“Well, I wrote all those captions,” Emma quips, “I had caption-writing approval.”

Emma also had this witty remark when it was mentioned that she had been seemingly everywhere in Hollywood movies in the last few years.

“I’m not in every movie!” Stone says, “I can name so many movies I’m not in right now, Transformers, Harry Potter, although sometimes people do call me Emma Watson and I’m not Emma Watson, unfortunately.”

“It’s funny,” she continues, “As time goes on, it’s odd when people say my name because for so long, I was, ‘I know you from…Did you go to the University Of Michigan? You did go to the University of Michigan?’ ‘No, I didn’t.’ ‘Yes, you did. You were in

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my psych class.’ People were really convinced that I went to school with them for a long time.”

Stone says, however, that she does put much stock into her rising fame.

“Well, the thing about me is, it’s not fatalistic,” she notes, “I don’t want to say, but I try to hold everything that concerns my job, I hold it pretty lightly, because it ebbs and flows so much and it comes and goes and I know things will change. So if I get too attached to one way of thinking or one way of living or one way of being, then I’m going to be screwed later on. That kind of expectation, I think, leads to disappointment, so as long as my relationship with my friends and family is good, all the stuff that happens with this can’t ever really be that bad, because those people are there for all of that.”

“That’s what now I realize when people ask about working with Steve [Carell] or Julianne [Moore] or Woody Harrelson, those people have their priorities completely straight,” Emma adds, “Their family comes first and their job, they love their job and they have fun and they do what they are passionate about, but they don’t need it. It doesn’t fill a hole in them. They’re filled by their family and by their kids and I really think that in any job, is that the most important thing, because you can’t take that with you or any of that stuff. So I guess it’s just that, focusing on that really important stuff, but I’m so grateful for the opportunities that I have right now. I’m just trying to be as present as possible, I guess.”

Emma was asked if she credits her grounded demeanor to knowing who she is.

“I think that I’m hopefully figuring it out, yeah,” Stone replies.

As proof of her grounded demeanor, Emma talks about having a starstruck moment when she and Gosling went to

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see Paul McCartney perform at Yankee Stadium.

“We went to the concert,” she says, “Paul McCartney drew my tattoo. Paul McCartney and I have a long-standing relationship. No, Woody introduced me to Paul in the beginning of 2009. We went to dinner at his house and then, I wrote him a letter at the beginning of the year and he drew blackbird feet. And my mom, my dad, my brother, and I all have it tattooed on our wrist. We got it tattooed on our wrist at the end of the year and I’ve seen him multiple times since then and we went to the concert the other night.”

“[Ryan and I] went to the concert and we got to go backstage with Paul McCartney and his tiny harmonica that he carries in his pocket,” Stone adds, “He’s pretty great. It was really surreal. The whole thing was really surreal, but he drew a tattoo and I look at it everyday. And every time he sees it, he touches it and at the BAFTA’s (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), he kissed it. He’s the greatest, greatest guy. It’s pretty cool.”

Stone was also asked about becoming a celebrity in the age of the Internet.

“But that’s happens to everyone now,” she says, “Kids in high school, Facebook, I mean, everybody’s getting crap on the Internet. I think it’s a double-edged sword. I think there’s so much about the Internet that’s amazing. I loved the Internet when I was growing up. I thought I wanted to build web sites for a living. So I thought it was incredible and it was before blogs, it was e-zines and all that stuff and a lot of message board stuff and it was so fun and so interesting. But now, I think, as with everything the human race has ever done, we take something good and we just blow it to an extreme. So I think the world is getting smaller.

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It’s like Network. We’re in our houses and our tiny boxes and we say please just leave us alone. We don’t want to go out anymore. We just want to stay in this little box and communicate through typing and that’s odd to me.”

“The thing about message boards and writing crap on the Internet is that I have asked every one of my friends, ‘Will you go on the Internet and talk crap about someone you didn’t know?’ And it’s a resounding, ‘No,’” Emma continues, “So I always think, ‘Cool, those are probably people I wouldn’t hang out with.’ That’s alright. I’m not going to go writing crap about people on the Internet. You could express your opinion and say what you want and what you feel and that’s freedom. That’s fantastic. There’s so many musicians that can put themselves on YouTube for free and they don’t have to pound the pavement and beg and plead for a record contract, comedians that can put their stand-up on the Internet, and get discovered in these amazing ways. It really opens up that opportunity to kind of create on your own and that’s so amazing as an artist, but there’s also that dark side to everything.”

Stone talks about the notion that she plays a 27 year-old and co-star Analeigh Tipton plays a 17 year-old baby sitter in the film, despite the fact that they are both the same age in real life.

“She was super-cool,” Emma says, “It was really funny that we were playing ten years apart at the exact same age. We were both 21 at the time of shooting. And then, at [The Amazing] Spider-Man, which happened a little while longer, I was back to 17. I think it’s pretty funny that you can be so many ages at once. I mean, sweet. I’ll ride that train as long as I can.”

Emma talks about singer Josh Groban’s surprising comedic skill as an actor in

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the film.

“He’s really funny in real life, too,” she says of him, “He’s really legitimately hilarious. I think people think that just booming, beautiful vibrato that he can’t be silly, but he can be totally silly. He’s an operatic funnyman, that guy.”

“He is so funny,” Stone says, “And there is so much improv that he did that didn’t make it into the movie and everyone was laughing over his improv in the takes that they were probably unusable, because he went ballistic on the girl who plays Liz, Lisa Lapira, who is hilarious in the movie.”

Stone shared with us what she has coming next.

“The Help is coming out two weeks after this movie,” Emma says, “And then, next summer, The Amazing Spider-Man is coming out. I’m not editorializing. They named it that. And then, I don’t know, maybe something soon.”

Emma was asked if she’d like to develop her own comedy.

“Oh, absolutely,” Stone enthuses, “I would love to. I don’t know if I’d come up with such great ideas, but I think I would need to team up with someone like Will Gluck or something like that. But I would love to. That would be amazing.”