A Ken lying in the mud motivated Ryan Gosling to play the doll in “Barbie”

The only actor live action of ‘Barbie’ directed by Greta Gerwing For Warner Bros, who was able to talk about the film is Ryan Gosling. The performer has said on more than one occasion that he is happy with his character Ken in this film and now reveals that part of his motivation to play the role was to see a doll lying in the mud.

In a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon for the Tonight Show on the occasion of his new movie, ‘The Gray Man’, he talked about his participation in the live action Barbie. While he didn’t give any details on the Warner Bros film directed by Greta Gerwing, the actor did talk a little bit about his character Ken and how he got there.

Always, Ryan Gosling sees Ken as a character that no one has ever cared about. and she also believes that many have always seen him as a Barbie “accessory”: he was just the young woman’s handsome boyfriend who “could be whatever she wanted to be”. Although he also reveals that there was a key moment when he decided to agree to give life to this popular Mattel doll.

Nobody ever cared about Ken. Nobody played with Ken. He is an accessory and not even one of the “cool” ones, “he revealed.

The actor believes part of this was what motivated him to be Ken, since in a previous interview with Variety he said he “had to do them for Kens” all over the world in real life. However, what what motivated Ryan Gosling to take on the role was seeing a Ken lying in the mud behind his house.

I went to my yard and you know what I found? Ken lying face down in the mud, right next to a squeezed lemon. I wrote to Greta and said ‘I have to be your Ken’, this story needs to be told, ”he said.

Immediately after experiencing this experience, the actor called Greta Gerwing and agreed to be Ken in the live-action Barbie movie, a character the director had thought of for him from the start, as revealed. Although he also accepts that the script was a key part of accepting being part of the project.

The best script I’ve ever read in my life. ”

Ken by Ryan Gosling in Barbie’s live action

Although there has been a lot of talk about Ryan Goslin’s participation in “Barbie” and how he views the person, many details of the film and even the essence of the “beautiful” doll character are still a total mystery.

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The actor clarified that all the comments he made about Ken are limited to describing the nature of the doll, but they are not necessarily the key to understanding his role in the film, much less to think that the film is about one thing and another. . .

So, at the moment, everything about the film is still a mystery and the only clear thing is that it will be a romantic comedy starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, directed by Greta Gewring. Not to mention that its premiere will be on July 21, 2023.