Crazy, Stupid, Love directors John Requa and Glen Ficarra have admitted they expressed concern to Kevin Bacon that the film’s quality might suffer because the cast and crew were having too much fun on set.

The beloved 2011 romcom starred Steve Carell as Cal, a newly separated middle-aged man, and Ryan Gosling as a suave bachelor who takes him under his wing and teaches him how to succeed in the dating world.

It also featured Emma Stone, Julianne Moore and Bacon whose character’s affair with Moore’s Emily triggers her desire for a divorce from Cal.

Celebrating the film’s 15th anniversary this month, Requa and Ficarra recalled fond memories of shooting one of its final scenes in a new interview with People.

“We were shooting that backyard scene at the end of the movie, and it took us five days to shoot it. So we spent a lot of time just sitting around waiting for the camera to get set up. And we’re talking to Kevin Bacon. I was like, ‘Kevin, we’re worried we’re having too much fun.’ Because you always hear that if you have fun, the movie doesn’t come out [well]. And if you have a bad time, the movie comes out great,” Requa shared.

The co-director remembered that the 68-year-old Footloose star assuaged their worries, saying, “Nah, it’s not true. Don’t believe that.”

Requa remembered: “It made us feel better because we were just having so much fun. Everybody got along and it was just a lot of improv and goofing around.”

The easygoing environment led to many experimental takes that were ultimately cut to keep the movie’s runtime under two hours.

“We would shoot the script and then we would just have fun with the scenes with the actors. So we had a lot of improv that just didn’t make it in,” Ficarra added. “But I think we kept a lot of the cream of it.”

Released in 2011, Crazy, Stupid, Love was a box office success, grossing $145.1 million worldwide against a $50 million budget. It also helped solidify Gosling and Stone’s careers as romantic movie leads.

Ahead of its 15th anniversary, Carell, who served as a producer through his film company, Carousel Productions, confessed that he was not initially sold on the movie’s title.

“I never liked that title,” Carell told Entertainment Tonight in March. “I do now, but when [screenplay writer] Dan Fogelman wrote it, he didn’t title it. He didn’t call it anything. It was ‘Untitled Dan Fogelman Project.’”

The Office alum shared that “everybody had an idea as to what the title should be” before Warner Bros. stepped in with the final say.

“So finally, Warner Brothers just said, ‘We’re calling it Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ I was like, ‘Eh, alright,’” Carell said. “But I’m convinced that if it’s good and people like it, people will like the title. Doesn’t even matter what you call it.”