Ryan Gosling reveals why he originally shot down viral ‘I’m Just Ken’ performance at Oscars: ‘100 percent no’

He was not feeling the Kenergy.

Ryan Gosling exposed he pretty much didn’t complete his viral song “I’m Just Ken” at this year’s Oscars, but was persuaded to do so because of his daughters’ enjoy for Barbie.

The Canadian actor, who starred together with Margot Robbie in the summer months strike movie, initially instructed the Academy he was not fascinated in the reside performance since anything at all could occur.

“100 p.c no,” Gosling reported in the course of his appearance Thursday night time on the Tonight Demonstrate with Jimmy Fallon.

“There’s a great deal of methods that could go mistaken.”

Gosling, 43, inevitably agreed to place on the present, complete with backup dancers, musician Mark Ronson, and a surprise visual appearance by famous “Guns N’ Roses” guitarist Slash.

The functionality has garnered hundreds of tens of millions of sights on social media, Spotify and Apple New music.

Gosling gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his job in the Greta Gerwig movie.

The father of two afterwards shared what his daughters imagined when he brought them to the costume rehearsal for his now-viral performance.

“Dad’s Ken-ning once more,” Gosling joked.

The Golden Globes winner shares the two women with “The Location Past the Pines” co-star Eva Mendes.

Gosling brought his daughters, 7 and 9 years old, to set to enjoy him engage in the Mattel doll-influenced character to give them context for what their father had been up to.

“It was their curiosity in Barbie and their disinterest in Ken that sort of begun all of this,” the Ken actor admitted.

“It’s seriously been a staff work, and they had been on the film and they came to set when I filmed the range,” Gosling said. “It’s also been like a great deal of this has been no context for them, it’s just a ton of bogus tan stains all-around the home.”

He mentioned his functionality very last month was his daughters’ initially concert but admitted they know the choreography and tracks far better than he does.

Gosling, who is internet hosting Saturday Evening Reside for the 3rd time on Saturday, states a preceding look of his on the prolonged-managing sketch display made Gerwig provide him the position of Ken.

“Alex Moffet wrote this sketch referred to as ‘A Male Who Just Joined SOHO House’ and the 1st line was like ‘Sergeant Blackout reporting for booty.’” he recalled.

“Who would’ve considered that Greta Gerwig was viewing that likely, ‘That’s my Ken.’

“Thank you, Alex, you got me a task.”