“The directors sensed she has a head like a box full of rats, and they just tried to harness that into the movie,” says Gosling of Stone, who notes sadly that the pair’s duet of Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters’ “Tonight You Belong to Me” from The Jerk was cut from the film. “If you could create an experience for a reader of what it’s like being with Emma Stone,” he continues, “tell them to imagine they’ve got three televisions in one room. There’s The Goonies on one, Beetlejuice on the other, and Gilda Radner on the third. And they’re all playing at the same time, really loud. In the meantime, you’ve got two tiny fish wiggling around in your palm.”