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Miles Teller and Emma Watson were previously in talks to the musical comedy film. While Teller was dropped from the film in favour of Gosling, Watson dropped out due to other projects and Stone was ultimately signed on.
Damien Chazelle is most noted for his Oscar winning film Whiplash. However, the script for this film was reportedly written before Whiplash.
Singer John Legend who had to learn to play the guitar for his role in the film has revealed that he was jealous of Gosling because of how fast the actor picked up the piano. "I've been playing since I was four, It's not fair!" he confessed good naturedly.
This will be 3rd movie together for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
The film has secured seven nominations for the upcoming Golden Globes 2017 including best comedy or musical, best director, best actress in a comedy or musical and best actor in a comedy or musical.
Damien Chazelle compared Gosling and Stone to classic Hollywood couples like Fred and Ginger and Bogart and Bacall.
Emma Stone confessed that the film hit close to home as it made them nostalgic about their own acting struggles. In fact Emma enacts one of Ryan Gosling's horror audition stories in the film.
