Cinema: Ken Doll in the Mud inspired Ryan Gosling

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Ken Doll in the Mud inspired Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling plays Ken in the new Barbie movie. photo

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Barbie can be seen in a feature film for the first time – of course, her faithful companion Ken shouldn’t be missing. Thanks to his daughters, Ryan Gosling has a heart for the legendary doll’s eternal sidekick.

Hollywood star Ryan Gosling says he accepted the role of Ken in the “Barbie” film because of his seven- and eight-year-old daughters, who are Barbie doll fans in his own home. “One day I saw Ken face down in the mud next to a crushed lemon,” Gosling tells the new GQ magazine, “and I thought, ‘This man’s story needs to be told.'”

Gosling (42) has two daughters with fellow actress Eva Mendes (49), with whom he also shot “The Place Beyond the Pines”. They were born in September 2014 and April 2016. “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Gosling as Ken, hits theaters on July 20th.

Gosling muses in GQ about Ken whose job is the beach (“Everyone agreed he had a job that doesn’t mean anything”) and that nobody cares about the Barbie boyfriend (“I’ll take care of this one guy, I’m like his deputy”).

He supposedly sees connections between the film character Ken and his own childhood. “There’s something about this Ken that I think really connects to this version of me. The guy who wore Hammer pants and danced at the mall, who smelled like Drakkar Noir and wore bangs. That boy I owe a lot.” He distanced himself from that childhood self when he started making serious films. “But really, he’s the reason I have everything I have.”

Until now, the Barbie doll has only appeared in animated films, never in a full-length feature film with real actors. Director Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) also wrote the screenplay for the Warner Bros. comedy – with her husband Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”).

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