Ryan Gosling, for now, is busy being the clingy boyfriend to Margot Robbie’s Barbie which was released a couple of days ago. But, when he wasn’t roaming around in the pink Mattel universe, Gosling spent his days brooding in The Gray Man.
His erratic film career catches fans off guard, every time. He’s Hollywood’s famous lover boy, a banker, plays piano in a musical romance, goes to a dystopian 2049, then to the moon, and land in Robbie’s Barbie world after making a pit stop to fight Chris Evans.
Before being an icon who can mesmerize his audience, someone else mesmerized him. In his early days, Gosling had the chance to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. And that was all he needed to become the actor that he is today.
Not just on camera, but Hopkins and Gosling had a heated moment interacting about the film, and the former couldn’t hold the conversation any longer. It has been 16 years since they last worked.
Ryan Gosling Thought He Had Failed As Willy Beachum
Anthony Hopkins proved to be a formidable opponent to Gosling’s Willy Beachum in 2007’s courtroom thriller Fracture.
In his conversation with EW, Ryan Gosling blamed himself for not living up to the film’s character as he wanted to explore the depths of the film’s premise and level with his co-star’s talent.
“I don’t feel like I did a very good job, because I was so busy watching Anthony. I’d have to remind myself, ‘You have a character to play. Stop watching him.’ I was trying to dismantle his talent and understand it. And I never could.”
Well, legends aren’t born – they are made. And Gosling may just have to be old enough to understand how someone as veteran as Sir Hopkins came to be.
Ryan Gosling Got On Sir Anthony Hopkins’ Nerves
Veteran actors are most often inclined to enlighten their young co-stars, but what happens when they get annoyed when someone tries to overstep?
Hopkins recalled his irritating conversation with Ryan Gosling and his eagerness to explore the film’s ending to better channel his character.
“He wanted to become involved in the analysis of the plot. I was concerned we were going to talk it into oblivion. I get so bored: ‘For God’s sake, shoot it!’
When director Gregory Hoblit came up with an alternate ending, Hopkins said –
“I apologized to him at the reshoot. I said I misunderstood this, and I could see now what he was fighting for.”
The Barbie and Oppenheimer universe will collide next year as Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are coming together for an action-adventure journey in David Leitch’s The Fall Guy.
Source: The Digital Fix
