Ryan Gosling Plays Coy About Performing ‘I’m Just Ken’ Live at the Oscars: ‘Do You Get Paid to Sing at the Oscars? Do You Have to Drive Yourself?’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director One of the biggest questions facing the upcoming Academy Awards is whether or not “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” might win the Oscar for best picture, but also whether or not Ryan Gosling will put his Ken mink coat back on to perform “I’m Just Ken” live on stage.
Should the beloved power ballad land a nomination for best original song, a live performance will likely take place regardless of its Gosling singing the lead vocals.
Oscar producers would surely love for it to be Gosling for ratings purposes (and the odds of him attending the Oscars as a best supporting actor nominee are in his favor), and they even might want to stage an “I’m Just Ken” live performance even if the song does not get nominated because it’s just so popular.
Would Gosling actually take the stage? “Well, I haven’t been invited. And I wasn’t thinking about it until now, and now it’s all I’m going to think about,” Gosling recently told W Magazine while playing coy on his final answer. “Do you get paid to sing at the Oscars?
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