Why Ryan Gosling Thinks Men on ‘The Bachelorette’ Resemble Ken — According to Greta Gerwig
usmagazine.comGreta Gerwig revealed Ryan Gosling’s surprising reality TV inspiration when it came to crafting the character of Ken for the Barbie movie. “I’ve never seen The Bachelor, but Ryan Gosling — when we started talking about Ken, he said, ‘Oh, the Kens remind me of [how the contestants] on The Bachelorette [are] when the woman isn’t around.
They don’t know what to do with themselves. They’re doing, like, push-ups and they kind of are competitive with each other and if one guy wears glasses and then another guy wears glasses he’s like, no you took my thing, I’m the guy with glasses,’” Gerwig, 39, shared during the Monday, July 31, episode of the “SmartLess” podcast.
Gosling’s innate vision for Ken was just one of the reasons Gerwig knew he was the man for the job. “We knew we were writing the part [of Barbie] for Margot [Robbie], so in writing we cast Ryan.
We wrote his name into the script. It was the thing that I was like, ‘I know.’ And then when we handed them the script the studio was like, ‘Oh that’s so wonderful that you know Ryan.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Ryan.
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