To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? A look at how the press has helped make Ryan Gosling famous and how he has used the press to become a superstar, including over fifty pages of high quality photos from his career in the public eye. From interviews with photographers, public relations experts and other actors, this book looks at how public perception has not only helped shape Goslings career, but also explores how he has managed to manipulate it to great effect.
Gosling's career path is followed from his early days as a Mouseketeer, through several high-profile relationships, his success in films such as "The Notebook" and "Drive," up to an examination of future projects. Read more Read less. Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. Product details File Size: April 8, Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers.
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Write a customer review. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Gosling has credited the experience with instilling in them "this great sense of focus. Timberlake's mother became Gosling's legal guardian after his mother returned to Canada for work reasons.
He wanted to spend more time sitting with and devising a character as well as play a variety of roles, so he chose to enter film and not accept any more television work. At the age of nineteen, Gosling decided to move into "serious acting". He was dropped by his agent and initially found it difficult to secure work because of the "stigma" attached to children's television.
Director Henry Bean said he cast Gosling because his Mormon upbringing helped him understand the isolation of Judaism. In , Gosling co-starred in the psychological thriller Murder by Numbers with Sandra Bullock and Michael Pitt , [41] where Gosling and Pitt portrayed a pair of high school seniors who believe they can commit the perfect murder. Bullock played the detective tasked with investigating the crime.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly described him as "a phenomenal talent even in junk like this" [42] while Todd McCarthy of Variety felt that the "strong and "charismatic" young actors were "let down by the screenplay".
Gosling has said that the opportunity to work with Morse made him "a better actor". He was drawn to the role because it was unusual to find a character that was "emotionally disconnected for the whole film. Gosling came to the attention of a mainstream audience in after starring opposite fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams in the romantic drama film The Notebook , a film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks ' novel of the same name , directed by Nick Cassavetes. Shepard co-starred in The Notebook. In , Gosling appeared as a disturbed young art student in Stay , a psychological thriller film co-starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.
What the f was that movie about? I'm just as proud if someone says, 'Hey, you made me sick in that movie,' as if they say I made them cry. To prepare for the role, Gosling moved to New York for one month before shooting began. He lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn and spent time shadowing an eighth grade teacher. Gosling played an introvert who falls in love with a sex doll in the film Lars and the Real Girl. He drew inspiration from James Stewart 's performance in Harvey. He originally turned down the role, but changed his mind when Hopkins signed on.
Each actor is playing a pulp type rather than a fully formed individual, but both fill in the blanks with an alchemical mix of professional and personal charisma. Gosling was scheduled to begin filming The Lovely Bones in However, he left the production two days before filming began because of "creative differences" and was replaced by Mark Wahlberg. The director Peter Jackson and the producer Fran Walsh persuaded him that he could be aged with hair and make-up changes.
It was our blindness, the desire to make it work no matter what.
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I just showed up on set, and I had gotten it wrong. Then I was fat and unemployed. It's OK to be too young for a role. Following a three-year absence from the big screen, Gosling starred in five movies in and I used to kind of dread it. It was so emotional and taxing. But I've found a way to have fun while doing it. And I think that translates into the films. In , he co-starred with Michelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance's directorial debut, the marital drama Blue Valentine.
The low-budget film was mainly improvised and Gosling has said "you had to remind yourself you were making a film".
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Scott of The New York Times found him "convincing as the run-down, desperate, older Dean, and maybe a bit less so as the younger version". He played the role of New York real-estate heir David Marks, who was investigated for the disappearance of his wife played by Dunst. Gosling's first action role was in Drive , based on a novel by James Sallis.
It's irresistible to liken his economical style to that of Marlon Brando. In his final appearance of , Gosling co-starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the political drama The Ides of March directed by George Clooney , in which he played an ambitious press secretary. Yet neither actor has great material to conjure with in the script. In 's Gangster Squad , a crime thriller, Gosling portrayed Sgt. He was reunited with Emma Stone as his love interest, after their earlier pairing in Crazy, Stupid, Love. Stone has said she hopes they will find more projects to work together on.
Scott of The New York Times described the film as an excuse for the cast "to earn some money trying out funny voices and suppressing whatever sense of nuance they might possess. Scott of the New York Times praised the performance: Gosling uses a soft, wounded half-whisper that tells us this is all some kind of put-on It's a close variation on the role Gosling played to stronger effect in Nicolas Winding Refn's existential Hollywood thriller, Drive , where it was clear the character was meant to be an abstraction.
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Gosling undertook Muay Thai training in preparation for the role, [] and has described the script as "the strangest thing I've ever read". Then he stopped acting and started posing. His performance in Only God Forgives would God forgive that title? In early , Gosling announced that he was taking a break from acting, stating, "I've lost perspective on what I'm doing.
I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. David Sims of The Atlantic felt that he was "smarmily funny, somehow simultaneously magnetic and repulsive; after years wandering the halls of mediocre art cinema, it's wonderful to see him cut loose again. Gosling was signed on to work with Terrence Malick in on the biographical film Che , but later dropped out.
Gosling's role was as Officer K, a "blade runner" working for the LAPD whose job it is to kill rogue bioengineered humans known as replicants. Scott found him to be perfectly cast, adding that his "ability to elicit sympathy while seeming too distracted to want it — his knack for making boredom look like passion and vice versa — makes him a perfect warm-blooded robot for our time".
In , Gosling portrayed Neil Armstrong , the astronaut who became the first man to walk on the Moon in , in Chazelle's biopic First Man , based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. In , Gosling made a solo recording called "Put Me in the Car" available for download on the Internet. In September , Gosling and Shields had a three-night residency at LA's Bob Baker Marionette Theater where they performed alongside dancing neon skeletons and glowing ghosts.
In , the actor spoke of his intentions to record a second Dead Man's Bones album. No children's choir will be featured on the follow-up album because "it's not very rock 'n' roll". Gosling previously resided in New York City with his mixed-breed dog , George. Gosling dated his Murder by Numbers co-star Sandra Bullock from to Gosling is supportive of various social causes.
He has worked with PETA on a campaign to encourage KFC and McDonald's to use improved methods of chicken slaughter in their factories, and on a campaign encouraging dairy farmers to stop de-horning cows. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gosling at an event for First Man in London, Ontario , Canada. Indie rock folk rock.
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I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me. You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes and go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
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It's nice to be around people that have a sense of the world around them, that are, in general, more conscious and conscientious. It was important for me to get an outside look at America even though I grew up in Canada, it's an incredible country and I love it, but it's so close. It's like being too close to a Monet or something.
You have to move back. Going to New Zealand helped me to get a read on this place that the whole world was obsessed with. I also think that something interesting comes out when you do something that you're afraid of, so I try to take things that I'm not sure that I can do. And this was certainly one of them. I didn't feel like I was right for this at all, and I wondered how to find truth in a fairy tale. For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired.
If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
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I think American news is pretty tragic in general. I can't tell the difference between Entertainment Tonight and the news. It's all about ratings. They are trying to sum it all up pretty quickly and try to act as if they understand it. The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me. All my characters are me.
I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like'. Because for me, they're all me. I relate to these characters because aspects of their personality are like me. And I just turn up the parts of myself that are them and turn down the parts that aren't. On this acting hero Gene Wilder is my Marlon Brando. Gene Wilder will break your heart and make you laugh at the same time. There's something really profound about what he's able to do.
He gives you everything at once and you have to decide what you feel about it.
But, people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that. I don't really like doing interviews because I don't have any answers about why I act.
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It's like a compulsion. It's like people who eat and eat and eat and they don't know why and they keep getting fatter but they can't stop. And then you find yourself on a set throwing yourself off a bridge, and you're asking yourself, 'Why am I doing this? I try not to make too many movies. I get sick of myself, so I can imagine how everyone else feels.
He doesn't limit himself. If he were a baseball player, it's like he walks up to the plate [and] points out a home run before he swings. He may not hit a home run, but that's the only thing he's hoping for. And also, he loves exploitation films and genre movies as well as art films. The idea that you could make a little movie, and you could make it the way you want to make it, and people will still want to see it.
People will want to see it for what it is, not for the way it's marketed. I always wanted to make a violent John Hughes movie. I love John Hughes movies. I love Pretty in Pink But I always thought if there were head-smashing in it it'd be a better movie. This was the opportunity to create one. The writing was on the wall when I saw Rocky for the first time. I went and picked a fight right afterwards and got my ass kicked. The movies took me into their dream. We're just getting started. Some people manage, but they're the marathon runners.
You have a shelf life as an actor, so you have to find another way to express yourself. It has a weird effect on people.