‘The Notebook’ director apologizes to Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams for revealing they hated each other

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Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling struggled to get along on the set of 2004’s “The Notebook.”As the rom-com celebrates its 20th anniversary on June 25, the director, 65, expressed his regret for ever discussing their dynamic in a new interview.“It caught me on a bad day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are around, I apologize to you guys.

I shouldn’t have spilled the beans,” he told Entertainment Weekly in a story published Tuesday. In a 2014 interview with VH1, the director disclosed: “Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set.

Really not.”He recounted a moment when Gosling, 43, amidst a tense scene, requested McAdams, 45, to be replaced.“Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here.’ He’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off-camera with me?’” he recalled at the time. “‘I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t.

I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.’”“[Later] we went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other,” he went on. “I walked out … And it got better after that, you know?