Ryan Gosling Struggles to Keep Up With His 2 Daughters’ Barbie Playtime: They Have ‘Complicated Backstories’

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Ryan Gosling is bringing the “Kenergy” to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie — but not when his daughters ask him to play with their dolls.“My kids, their Barbies aren’t even named ‘Barbie.’ They all have their own names [and] very complicated lives, backstories, interrelationships, history — you gotta know it all,” Gosling, 42, told ET Canada during a Thursday, June 29, interview at a Barbie press event in Toronto. “If you are playing with the two that are estranged now for some reason [and you did not know that], it’s like, ‘Get out of here.’”The La La Land star shares daughters Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 7, with his longtime partner Eva Mendes.

Gosling and Mendes, 49, have been together for more than one decade after meeting on the set of 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines.

The couple loves doting on their little girls, even if it means playing by their rules when it comes to doll adventures.“[The dolls] don’t even talk!” Gosling quipped on Thursday, during a joint interview with his sister, Mandi Gosling. “And by the way, [Ken] works at a grocery store, he’s not a fireman.

You gotta know [the story lines].”Esmeralda and Amada will soon see their dad portray a different version of Ken when Barbie hits theaters on July 21 — and Mendes already approves of the character.“Well, first of all, I saw the [shirtless] photo [of Ryan in character] and the 14-year-old in me was like, ‘Ahhh,’” the Hitch actress quipped during a June 2022 appearance on The Talk, referring to the first portrait of Gosling with bleached-blond hair. “It’s a funny photo and he’s trying to be funny.