Ryan Gosling Struggles to Follow Kids’ Barbie Backstories

Ryan Gosling is bringing the “Kenergy” to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film — but not when his daughters check with him to play with their dolls.

“My kids, their Barbies aren’t even named ‘Barbie.’ They all have their own names [and] extremely complex lives, backstories, interrelationships, historical past — you gotta know it all,” Gosling, 42, told ET Canada during a Thursday, June 29, job interview at a Barbie push event in Toronto. “If you are participating in with the two that are estranged now for some reason [and you did not know that], it is like, ‘Get out of right here.’”

The La La Land star shares daughters Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 7, with his longtime companion Eva Mendes. Gosling and Mendes, 49, have been together for far more than a person decade soon after conference on the established of 2012’s The Area Past the Pines. The few loves doting on their tiny girls, even if it usually means playing by their rules when it will come to doll adventures.

“[The dolls] never even speak!” Gosling quipped on Thursday, all through a joint job interview with his sister, Mandi Gosling. “And by the way, [Ken] functions at a grocery retail outlet, he’s not a fireman. You gotta know [the story lines].”

Esmeralda and Amada will shortly see their father portray a various edition of Ken when Barbie hits theaters on July 21 — and Mendes previously approves of the character.

“Well, initial of all, I noticed the [shirtless] picture [of Ryan in character] and the 14-year-outdated in me was like, ‘Ahhh,’” the Hitch actress quipped during a June 2022 visual appeal on The Communicate, referring to the 1st portrait of Gosling with bleached-blond hair. “It’s a amusing image and he’s hoping to be amusing. So, it labored on all levels. … I [asked him], ‘Can I be sure to have that underwear? Please! I by no means ask for something.’ So in any case, I do have it. I’m putting on it correct now.”

Two months later, a resource solely told Us Weekly that Mendes is “always supportive” of Gosling’s profession. “She finds it lovable and charming that he’s actively playing the role of Ken,” the insider claimed in August 2022. “They ended up actually owning enjoyment role-playing together immediately after he went blond. They the two received some great laughs.”

Gosling’s 46-yr-previous sister also famous on Thursday that his casting appeared like a “no-brainer” final decision.

“Of course, he’s Ken! I imply, [he] might’ve had to seem deep for ‘Kenergy,’ but I always knew it was there,” Mandi quipped to ET Canada.

When he’s not making ready to convey the iconic doll to life, Ryan and Mendes mostly raise their small kinds outside the house of the spotlight.

“The sensation is that they’ll relate to each individual other far better by currently being outdoors of Hollywood, possibly in Canada or even more afield from Los Angeles somewhere like Santa Barbara or more up the coastline,” a 2nd supply beforehand advised Us in January 2022. “It’s ironic that they fell in really like shooting Area Over and above the Pines in upstate New York, which is just the form of location they’d enjoy to kick back and enjoy raising their young ones.”

The insider famous that Ryan and Mendes want their daughters to improve up in an “outdoor environment” away from significant metropolis pressures. There, the Outrageous, Stupid Love actor is “dedicated” to becoming a present father.