The upcoming Emma Stone vehicle Easy A is all about how one simple thing can change your reputation overnight, so what will the highly anticipated high school comedy do for director Will Gluck? In advance of the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere, Movieline talked to Gluck about his postmodern approach to comedy, his next movie Friends with Benefits (which is competing against two other projects that want to use that title), and the asthma attack-inducing power of the female orgasm.

You say that it’s a movie with no sex, but it does have Emma Stone faking an orgasm.
Oh no, she wasn’t faking an orgasm! You misconstrued that. She was having a sneeze attack. [Laughs]

She’s only gotten more popular since you made the movie, but did you have any trouble casting her over some familiar face from the CW?
No, because one good thing about Sony is that they knew that this was kind of a special movie — a weird kind of movie, but weird in a good way. They never pushed anyone on us, and you’ve seen how good the cast is that we got for this movie, so they were very supportive about casting all the best people. The way I auditioned the [lead] role is that I had all the actresses come in, but then I had them all go home and do any page from the script into their webcam and sent it to me. Em went home that night and emailed it to me, and I walked over to the head of the studio with my laptop and said, “This is our girl”… If I were to put money on anyone, Emma Stone is going to be a gigantic star. She’s the best actress and the best person I’ve ever worked with.