Ryan Gosling Discovered a Ken Doll in the Dirt Right After Getting ‘Barbie’ Offer: ‘Best Script I’ve Ever Read’
variety.comZack Sharf Ryan Gosling said on “The Tonight Show” that Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s “Barbie” screenplay is “the best script I’ve ever read,” but that’s not what made him finally agree to Gerwig’s offer to star in the movie as Ken.
It turns out the universe gave Gosling a bit of a push, as the actor discovered one of his daughter’s Ken dolls face down in the dirt almost immediately after being offered the “Barbie” movie.“Best script I’ve ever read.
I walk out in the backyard [after getting the offer] and, do you know where I found Ken?” Gosling said. “[A Ken doll] face down in the mud next to a squished lemon.
I texted [the photo] to Greta and said, ‘I shall be your Ken, for this story must be told.'” Gosling has been out promoting his new Netflix action movie “The Gray Man” (now streaming), but his press tour has been dominated by buzz about “Barbie.” The actor plays Ken opposite Margot Robbie’s Barbie, but there are rumors circulating that the film features several actors as different iterations of the two dolls.
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