With only six movies on her resume, Emma Stone's career has been fairly hit or miss. We first got to know her as the target of Jonah Hill's affection in Superbad and most recently she grabbed a shotgun to put down the undead in the hit Zombieland, but in between those she took part in some truly awful tripe in the form of The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. At the age of 22, she has time to learn about picking the right roles, but if she's simply looking to be in a hit comedy, it's harder to do better than joining a Steve Carell movie.

New York Magazine's Vulture is reporting that the young actress is in talks to star alongside Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid Love, a film in which Carell plays a man who discovers his wife is cheating on him and goes to his friend (Gosling) to learn how to become a womanizer. The site, which previously read the script, said Stone's role should not be revealed as "it would spoil the movie, but it's a pivotal one that ties the whole film together."

Sure, Carell hasn't been in a critically successful live-action film since 2006's Little Miss Sunshine, but there's hardly a person out there who can say that they don't find him hilarious (five of the actor's movies making more than $100 million in the last five years is something to note). Stone has already shown that she can stand up against veteran comedy actors and should this film work out, she could easily cement herself as a top-notch actress. All we can really hope is that Marmaduke doesn't utterly destroy her career first.