Ryan Gosling recalls getting gifts every day from Margot Robbie on the set of Barbie. Following a long development that saw both Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway enter and exit the process as leads, Mattel’s iconic Barbie is finally getting her own feature film, with Suicide Squad’s Robbie starring as the world’s most famous doll. Joining Robbie in Greta Gerwig’s highly-anticipated summer release is La La Land’s Gosling, who is set to play Ken to Robbie’s Barbie (alongside a host of other actors as other Kens and Barbies).
While audiences eagerly await the Barbie release date, Gosling recently told a fun story about how Robbie helped him get into character as Ken, by giving him gifts that reminded him of his Ken-ergy. Speaking to Vogue, Gosling recalled the little presents his co-star would leave for him, and how they were meant to help him find his character. Check out what Gosling said in the space below:
“She left a pink present with a pink bow, from Barbie to Ken, every day while we were filming. They were all beach-related. Like puka shells, or a sign that says ‘Pray for surf.’ Because Ken’s job is just beach. I’ve never quite figured out what that means. But I felt like she was trying to help Ken understand, through these gifts that she was giving.”
Ryan Gosling’s Good Sport Approach Makes Him A Perfect Ken
Gosling’s casting as Ken was initially met with some confusion, given the star’s history of veering toward heavier and more dramatic subject-matter. But indeed, Gosling has had occasion over the years to flash some comedic skills alongside his obvious dramatic gifts. On the big-screen, the star’s comedy resume includes the indie feature Lars and the Real Girl, the rom-com Crazy, Stupid, Love, the buddy-cop action-comedy The Nice Guys and the Adam McKay issue-driven satire The Big Short.
As strong as Gosling’s big-screen comedy output may be, perhaps his funniest work has come on the small-screen, in his two SNL hosting stints. Gosling in particular was hilarious in a pair of SNL sketches teaming him with Kate McKinnon, in which the stars played clueless people being interrogated after an alien abduction, and the entire point of the sketches was for McKinnon to do bizarre things and make Gosling break.
That Gosling would submit to starring in these strange sketches, that are built around making him lose it on live television, speaks to what a good sport he is. Everything that’s so far been teased about Gosling’s Ken performance in Barbie seems to be built around the premise of Ken being a clueless doofus, and it takes a self-deprecating, down-for-anything sort of actor to pull off such a potentially cringey role.
Source: Vogue
