“Barbie”: how was Ryan Gosling chosen for the role of Ken?

The pink trend continues to take over movie theaters after the release of the film “Barbie” on July 20 in Latin America. Since then, some information about the feature film starring margot robbie. On this occasion, we have discovered that the director herself Greta Gerwig interceded to have ryan gosling as the Ken doll in the live-action Warner Bros.

The filmmaker talked about how the “La La Land” actor came to play Ken in fiction. Next, we tell you the funny anecdote.

After Greta Gerwig took over the direction of “Barbie” in 2021, production began on her work and the filmmaker joined her husband Noah Baumbach to write the final script for the film project.

During a recent interview with the SmartLess podcast, Gerwig confessed that he wrote the role of Ken with actor Ryan Gosling in mind; even though he had never met the actor. “Actually, when writing it, we cast Ryan, like we wrote his name in the script and everything… and his name was everywhere. (…) When we gave them the script, the studio said: ‘Oh, it’s so wonderful that you meet Ryan.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Ryan. I never met Ryan, I have no idea’”highlighted the director of “Barbie”.

He also assured that the program with which he had known the comic work of Ryan Gosling was Saturday Night Live. Greta Gerwig spotted the actor in the “Guy Who Just Bought A Boat On Dates” episode of the “Weeknd Update” segment. “You know these actors that you can just… feel like they know what’s funny, and I always felt that for him.”, confessed.

Lastly, Greta Gerwig shared that Ryan Gosling made a funny comparison between Ken and the men on “The Bachelorette.” “He said, ‘Oh, Ken reminds me of the men on ‘The Bachelorette’ when the woman isn’t around, they don’t know what to do with themselves and they get stressed. and they’re doing push-ups’”he added.

Greta Gerwig’s new film follows the story of Barbie (Margot Robbie), who has just been kicked out of Barbieland for not being a perfect-looking doll. After that, she leaves for the human world to find her true happiness with Ken (Ryan Gosling).

The film inspired by the iconic Mattel doll stars Margot Robbie in the role of Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken.

These are all the cast of “Barbie”:

• Margot Robbie as Barbie
• Ryan Gosling as Ken

• Michael Cera as Allen
• Hellen Mirrren as Narrator
• Will Farrell as the CEO of Mattel
• Issa Rae
• Emma MacKey
• nicole coughlin
• kate mckinnon
• Alexandra Shipp
• Hari Neff
• Ana Cruz Kayne
• Ritu Arya
• Dua Lipa
• Kingsley Ben Adir
• Ncuti Gatwa
• simu liu

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