Greta Gerwig’s Barbie will have hundreds of Kens. Also, the actor Ryan Gosling portrayed the leading male role. In the live-action flick, he plays a clingy boyfriend who isn’t ready to leave his ladylove Barbie (Margot Robbie played that) out of his sight. The pink glassy and peppy trailer of the movie makes it clear that Gosling’s Ken is clingy to two things. Barbie and his roller skates. Now, the lead cast of the upcoming film made a grand appearance at the CinemaCon 2023 event on Tuesday, April 25. During the convention, Ryan Gosling spoke candidly about how he was able to get in the skin of his character.
According to a report by People, Gosling had only a little knowledge about Ken before he got the offer for the role. He admitted to doubting himself a lot but it was director Gerta Gerwig and Margot Robbie. She helped “conjure” Ken’s energy out of him. “I only knew Ken from afar. I didn’t know Ken from within, and if I’m being really honest I doubted my Ken-ergy. So, I didn’t see it, but Margot and Greta, they conjured this out of me somehow,” he said.
Barbie star Ryan Gosling says his ‘Ken-energy came on ‘like a fever’
Ryan Gosling told fans how he found his “n-energy” after taking on the role in Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming Barbie movie.
The Hollywood actor stars as Ken in the live-action tale of arguably the world’s most iconic children’s doll, opposite Margot Robbie in the title role.
”I am honest, I had up until this point, I only knew Ken from afar. I didn’t know Ken from within,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter
He explained that one moment, he was living his life as usual. But until, “one day, I was bleaching my hair and shaving my legs and wearing bespoke neon outfits and rollerblading down Venice Beach.”
“It came on like a fever, like a Scarlet fever,” he said. “Like, ‘Why is there fake tanner on my sheets? Why am I wearing jackets without shirts? What just happened.’”
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling go full Barbie at CinemaCon
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling made their first red-car carpet appearances as part of Greta Gerwig. That much-anticipated “Barbie ” movie during CinemaCon in Las Vegas Tuesday. Also, they dressed completely in character for the occasion.
Robbie, who plays the titular doll in the live-action flick. She posed for photos in a pink gingham bra top ($1,290) and miniskirt ($1,220) by Prada paired with peep-toe Christian Louboutin heels in the same girly hue, accessorising with a Chanel anklet.
She styled her blond hair in a sleek side part and finished things off with a rosy. So, thoroughly Barbie-worthy beauty look
Gosling, who portrays Ken in the movie. He repped his director in a white T-shirt with Gerwig’s name splashed across the front in the classic Barbie font. That he layered beneath a bubblegum-coloured Carhartt jacket.
Fans can preorder the cheeky tee, priced at $35 and available in both black and white, from Super Yaki.
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