Emma Stone has joked multiple times in interviews about her fear of spiders and needles, but the one fear she didn't realise was severe until filming “Crazy, Stupid, Love” was her fear of being lifted too high. She told Collider that when Ryan Gosling lifted her over his head, a terrifying childhood memory sank in, and she couldn't take it. “I broke both my arms when I was seven, falling forward off the parallel bars in gymnastics and I didn't realise that I had a dormant primal fear until Ryan lifted me over his head and when I was over—I was like, 'I can't do this, I can't do this' and my body just completely collapsed into him and kicked him in the throat,” Emma confessed.