Lars and the Real Girl – Exclusive: Ryan Gosling
We go one-on-one with actor Ryan Gosling to talk about his role Lars and the Real Girl.
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movie web.com there is a physical
dimension to the lares that i was very
curious about how you found that
character because he’s understated he’s
having you know trouble expressing his
emotions but as far as the you know the
blinking eyes the you know the
bottled-up look that he has how did you
get to that point flushing that out yeah
I think you know look he’s Lars is such
a great character that I wish I wish
everybody could play him the way I wish
it was a play and I could see all kinds
of actors do it in a way eating this
sort of feel like you know you hope
you’re doing the character justice but
it’s just your take on it you have a few
months to prepare for
do the best that you can all of those
things that you mentioned the kind of
physical
personality
with things that just kind of developed
you know I don’t know really how those
things come it’s kind of the fun of the
job things just happen alright um there
is a sweetness to the story that caught
me by surprise because the entire town
kind of comes together and they really
help Lars you know through this process
by adopting the doll as a real person
and whole time I was waiting you know
for someone some to be like Lars
you’re at the lose you know blah blah
blah but that doesn’t happen and that
was very surprising so was that what
really endeared you to the script yeah I
think that the I think that the script
and Nancy as a writer I think it’s kind
of a radical movie in the sense that it
has like the guts to be nice and to
where it’s hard on its lead and to be
totally exposed you know it’s not it’s
not cynical at all you know I but I do
feel that it’s realistic you know I
think that it’s a matter of perception I
think in a situation like this what most
of us would assume that things would go
terribly awry I when I was reading a
script I kept waiting for somebody to
burst his bubble or something bad to
happen to her and you know but it
doesn’t and I think that’s possible you
know and I think that that the Nancy the
writer thought it was more interesting
to explore what would happen if you
walked into a place that you were afraid
for a person who’s afraid of being
himself which we all kind of are in some
way what happens if you walk into a
world of total acceptance how would you
handle that
and it’s an interesting concept quick
question about your choices in film this
this character Lars is very different
from anything that we’ve seen you do I
mean we’ve seen you do some
introspective characters before and you
know some violent characters but here’s
a character that’s totally sweet and
good-natured and I was wondering do you
find these roles more in the indie
system or do you find that Hollywood has
kind of given up on like a film like
this well I don’t think that there are
many films like this you know think that
there aren’t that being kidnappers
special writer and I think that the
movies like this are rare because people
like very rare so I don’t know that this
to me this doesn’t fit inside the
independent world or the Hollywood world
is sort of like its own thing it’s like
that movie Harvey with Jimmy Stewart
like that’s a great movie and we all
love it but there’s never been anything
like it again I don’t know why it’s just
these things that just avoid John
resents themselves a few how asking
movies or something