Sylvester Stallone
Ryan Gosling as Rambo successor?
Unusual choice: Sylvester Stallone (l.) can imagine “Barbie” star Ryan Gosling as Rambo.
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Ken actor Ryan Gosling as the new Rambo? Sylvester Stallone has a suggestion that is only surprising at first glance.
Sylvester Stallone (77) has a surprising choice when it comes to a possible successor to his star role Rambo. On “The Tonight Show” Stallone said he was passing the baton Ryan Gosling (43) would pass on. The action star is aware that many people might consider the Ken actor from “Barbie” to be too beautiful for Rambo.
The conversation with “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon (49) came to Rambo via a detour. Fallon first addressed Stallone about his association with “Barbie.” The “Rocky” actor almost ended up in the hit film by Greta Gerwig (40). Stallone would have liked to have been there, but had to cancel due to scheduling reasons. “And then they kind of took my image for the movie, for Ryan, and that was just amazing,” the action star said.
Stallone as a model for Gosling’s Ken
Because Sylvester Stallone is definitely present in “Barbie”. In one scene there is a photo of him in a fur coat – a cliché image of masculinity that Barbie and Ken discover in the real world. The now famous coat that Gosling wears later in the film is inspired by Stallone. And when Ken later trains to develop from Barbie follower to alpha male, Stallone posters hang on the wall.
But there is not only a connection between Sylvester Stallone and “Barbie”, but also between Ryan Gosling and “Rambo”. The two actors once met for dinner, as Stallone told Jimmy Fallon. Ryan Gosling said that he was obsessed with the action series as a teenager. At school he dressed like John Rambo and was sent home for it. That didn’t stop him from continuing to emulate the film hero.
That’s why Sylvester Stallone probably thought of Ryan Gosling when it came to a possible Rambo successor. Originally, the role of the one-man army almost went to an actor who is physically even further away from Sylvester Stallone than Ryan Gosling: Dustin Hoffman (86).