Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor, musician, and producer. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Cluband went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark?and Goosebumps. He starred in the television series Breaker Highas Sean Hanlon and Young Herculesas the title role. His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer, and he then built a reputation for starring in independent...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 November 1980
CityLondon, Canada
CountryCanada
I worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two months.
I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.
If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
I grew up in a family of strong women, and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister.
I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.
I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.
There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.
I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.