Ryan Gosling Shares Hilarious Reason He Couldn't Resist Playing Ken

Gosling shared his causes for becoming a member of "Barbie" on "The Tonight Present" on July 21.

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Ryan Gosling is able to discuss “Barbie” — and at last revealed why he accepted the position of Ken.

The actor made colossal waves when Warner Bros. launched the first picture of him as a bleach blond Ken in June. Whereas many have been intrigued by the live-action Greta Gerwig-directed “Barbie” film, others have been baffled as to what drew Gosling to the venture.

The actor lastly broke his silence on “The Tonight Present” on July 21. Gosling, who will play Ken reverse Margot Robbie’s Barbie, joked he accepted the position out of pity — and since even plastic hunks like Ken deserve illustration.

“I used to be shocked how, you understand, some folks have been type of clutching their pearls about my Ken as if they ever considered Ken for a second earlier than this,” Gosling advised host Jimmy Fallon. “They by no means performed with Ken. No person performs with Ken, man.”

“He’s an adjunct, and never even one of many cool ones,” he added.

Gosling did say the screenplay, written by Gerwig and her writer-director companion Noah Baumbach, was the “greatest script I’ve ever learn.” Gosling, who shares two daughters with actor Eva Mendes, nonetheless wanted time to consider the position — however discovered his reply exterior.

“I stroll out within the yard and you understand the place I discovered Ken, Jimmy?” Gosling mentioned. “Face down within the mud subsequent to a squished lemon.”

Gosling texted a photograph of the deserted doll to Gerwig to substantiate he was able to correctly honor Ken.

“I shall be your Ken,” he wrote. “For his story should be advised.”

Gosling has since cheekily tried to singlehandedly usher in a “Kenaissance.” In a clip posted on Twitter by “Good Morning America” on July 21, he induced raucous studio-wide laughter by revealing a sure “Kenergy” was required to fill the doll’s sneakers.

“It’s onerous,” mentioned Gosling. “Lots of people don’t know this, however George Lucas primarily based The Power on Kenergy. It’s all the time been there. I can’t even get into it actually. We don’t have the time. It’s loads to be Ken, however we have to discuss Ken sooner or later.”