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Ryan Gosling on Nearly Turning Down Ken, Singing Live at the Oscars and Wanting a ‘Beach-Off’ Over Those ‘Barbie’ Snubs
Ryan Gosling nearly passed on playing Ken in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie." Now he's earned an Oscar nomination for the comedy blockbuster.
After Ryan Gosling first read the script for Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie,” he walked into his backyard and found the real thing — one of his daughters’ Ken dolls — lying in the dirt, naked, with his face in a pile of mud. We both sensed he’s not that kind of guy.” Robbie lists off Gosling’s unique abilities to navigate both the comedic and dramatic elements of Ken — one being he’s sincere but not satirical — and she tops it off with another key quality he brought to the role. (Gosling got his big break after moving from the small Canadian town of Cornwall, Ontario, at age 12 to appear on “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club” alongside Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.)
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