Ryan Gosling‘s Ken doll in the upcoming Barbie movie is not living the dream life.
While plot details about the upcoming movie remain tightly under wraps, the Canadian actor dropped one story morsel in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
According to Gosling, the character of Ken in Barbie is having a much rougher go at life than his hunted spy character in Netflix‘s The Gray Man.
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“That Ken life is even harder than the Gray Man life, I think,” Gosling quipped.
“Ken’s got no money, he’s got no job, he’s got no car, he’s got no house. He’s going through some stuff.”
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Gosling’s tease might support rumours that Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s Barbie script is a fish-out-of-water comedy in which Margot Robbie’s eponymous character and Gosling’s Ken find themselves lost in the real world. It seems like Ken might have a meltdown without any of his possessions.
“It’s not what you think it is, unless it is,” Gosling said about the movie, purposefully being vague.
“And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is. Wait, what are we talking about?”
Gosling isn’t allowed to disclose any information about Barbie, he added, joking that Mattel will come “box me up” if he lets any details about the secretive project slip.
Chris Evans’ character in The Gray Man calls Gosling’s character a “Ken doll” in a meta reference to the Canadian actor’s upcoming bleach-blond role.
But Gosling says being called a “Ken doll” is “not an insult at all”, recognising a unique vibe within him.
“I have that Ken-ergy that he could feel, obviously,” he said in the interview, coining the new term after his other half Eva Mendes coined the term “Ken-aissance” in a social media post.
When ET reporter Lauren Zima asked him to elaborate on what, exactly, Ken-ergy is, he merely doubled down: “You have a Ken in your life, and you know that Ken has Ken-ergy.”
Gosling also spoke about his excitement about the upcoming film on the red carpet of the action movie’s premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (Thursday AEST).
“Finally, it’s happening,” he told Variety’s Marc Malkin.
“This has been coming my whole life.”
The Barbie supporting cast includes the likes of America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Issa Rae, Michael Cera and more.
It’s rumored that several Barbie and Ken characters factor into the plot, so Gosling’s Ken isn’t the only Ken fans are expecting to see.
Sharing the spotlight with so many big names, Gosling jokes that his mission for the project was a matter of on-screen representation.
“I felt like I was seeing myself. I felt seen. I think a lot of Kens will feel seen when they see this,” Gosling told Malkin.
“Gotta do it for the Kens. Nobody plays with the Kens.”
Liu described Barbie earlier this year as “wild” and “incredibly unique”, saying, “I wish I could just show you what we do day-to-day because it’s crazy.”
The film is not a musical, but Liu said he’d been in dance rehearsals aplenty for the movie.
Barbie is slated to open in Australian cinemas on July 20, 2023.
– Reported with Variety and CNN.
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