How Ryan Gosling’s ‘Kenergy’ Was Inspired By Men On ‘The Bachelorette’

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In order for Ryan Gosling to portray the perfect onscreen “Kenergy” for the “Barbie” movie, he pulled inspiration from a popular reality TV dating show — “The Bachelorette”.

Director Greta Gerwig provided an explanation for the unexpected inspo behind Gosling’s role of Ken while appearing on Monday’s episode of the “SmartLess” podcast.  “I’ve never seen ‘The Bachelor’, but Ryan Gosling — when we started talking about Ken, he said, ‘Oh, the Kens remind me of [how the contestants] on ‘The Bachelorette’ [are] when the woman isn’t around.

They don’t know what to do with themselves. They’re doing, like, push-ups and they kind of are competitive with each other and if one guy wears glasses and then another guy wears glasses he’s like, no you took my thing, I’m the guy with glasses,’” Gerwig recounted of Gosling’s comparison of the show’s eligible bachelors to Ken.    READ MORE: Where To Buy Ryan Gosling’s ‘I Am Kenough’ Hoodie From ‘Barbie’ In Canada The filmmaker — whose “Barbie” has become the highest-grossing domestic opening of any film directed by a woman — then went on to share why she knew Gosling was the right fit for the role. “We knew we were writing the part [of Barbie] for Margot [Robbie], so in writing we cast Ryan.

We wrote his name into the script. It was the thing that I was like, ‘I know,'” Gerwig recalled. “And then when we handed them the script the studio was like, ‘Oh that’s so wonderful that you know Ryan.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Ryan.