Ryan Gosling is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of New York magazine. During his photoshoot for the mag, he got the wild idea to make and throw a Molotov cocktail … just because. But, before we get to that bit of fun, let’s check out Ryan‘s very manly [...]
Ryan Gosling is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of New York magazine. During his photoshoot for the mag, he got the wild idea to make and throw a Molotov cocktail … just because. But, before we get to that bit of fun, let’s check out Ryan‘s very manly NY mag coverphoto and read some excerpts from his interview:
Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, is the film that best captures Gosling’s particular brand of manliness—the back-and-forth between tender, boyish goofiness and a more virile, dangerous, and unpredictable sexuality. The film tracks the six-year devolution of a romance between Dean (Gosling), bighearted and blue-collar, and Cindy (Williams), the shy young nurse he marries and has a daughter with. The film is ultimately devastating—at times harsh and claustrophobic, like a pomo Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “Ryan plays his character with such brutal honesty,” says his friend Mark Ruffalo. “It’s when acting becomes being.” Gosling was intrigued by the script’s evocation of “erosion and what a powerful force that is, that can turn a mountain into a rock. The film is like that Supremes song ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ ” he says. “It’s a mystery and you in the audience are the detective because the characters in the movie are too close to it—they’re not able to see what went wrong, what happened. They still love each other, but they’re not in love: Why?” He tried to persuade Cianfrance to shoot the two parts of the film—the couple’s courtship and the crumbling of the marriage—six years apart, to match the timeline of the script. “We couldn’t get anyone to finance that idea,” says Gosling. So the director enabled his star’s love of improvisation and full character immersion as best he could. After completing the scenes of Dean and Cindy falling in love (which includes an enchanting ukulele moment), and to prepare for the bad times, Gosling and Williams moved into a Pennsylvania house for four weeks with the young actress who played their daughter. They had a pretend Christmas and birthdays, and Gosling “would make us ice-cream shakes to put on weight,” says Williams. “We’d clean up the kitchen, take out the trash, do a budget—I’d do a budget and Ryan would try to put in $500 a year for cigarettes” … improvisation paid off in sex scenes with Williams that are difficult to watch—not because of any physical act, but because they are so emotionally raw. Blue Valentine was given an NC-17, a decision Gosling called “misogynistic” in a statement to the MPAA: It’s “okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex” … Gosling might dislike the current business of Hollywood, but, actually, he’s a die-hard fan of the classic studio system. “It used to be mandatory to sing, dance, and act—to do comedy as well as drama,” says Gosling. “You came out here and trained. Over time, [actors] got compartmentalized. If you tried to play a character that was south side of a character you were made famous for, you were kicked to the curb, or shamed into getting back in line. The idea,” he says, “is to go back to the way things used to be.”
Because David loves all things New York, he has a subscription to New York magazine so I am really looking forward to reading this interview with Ryan. I am also really interested in seeing Blue Valentine, NC-17 rating and all. It sucks that the MPAA wields so much power with their movie ratings because IMHO, they tend to get their ratings wrong a lot … but, that is a discussion for another time. Let’s get to that Molotov cocktail I mentioned earlier — check out a photo from his NY mag photospread along with video of Ryan playing fiery bartender, after the jump …
Um … well, at least he was a good boy about it and responsibly put out the fire caused by his cocktail. Blue Valentine will open in theaters on December 31.
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