‘The Notebook’ director apologizes to Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams for revealing they hated each other

Nick Cassavetes exposed a decade back that Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling struggled to get along on the set of 2004’s “The Notebook.”

As the rom-com celebrates its 20th anniversary on June 25, the director, 65, expressed his regret for at any time speaking about their dynamic in a new interview.

“It caught me on a undesirable working day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are about, I apologize to you fellas. I should not have spilled the beans,” he told Leisure Weekly in a story published Tuesday. 

In a 2014 interview with VH1, the director disclosed: “Maybe I’m not meant to inform this story, but they were being definitely not acquiring alongside 1 day on set. Truly not.”

He recounted a minute when Gosling, 43, amidst a tense scene, requested McAdams, 43, to be changed.

“Ryan arrived to me, and there is 150 persons standing in this massive scene, and he suggests, ‘Nick come below.’ He’s accomplishing a scene with Rachel and he claims, ‘Would you consider her out of in this article and provide in a different actress to browse off-camera with me?’” he recalled at the time. “‘I mentioned, ‘What?’ He suggests, ‘I can not. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not finding nearly anything from this.’”

“[Later] we went into a home with a producer they started screaming and yelling at every single other,” he went on. “I walked out … And it acquired superior after that, you know? They had it out … I consider Ryan revered her for standing up for her character and Rachel was content to get that out in the open. The rest of the film was not clean sailing, but it was smoother sailing.”

Even with their original friction, the pair famously fell in adore off display screen and begun dating soon soon after the motion picture wrapped. 

“They fell in adore, and grew to become a great, amazing fiery couple,” Cassavetes remarked to EW. “I still believe they received plenty of regard and appreciate for each other, but in the starting, it was not like that.” 

“The Notebook” at first had blended critiques when it was introduced, only debuting at No. 4 at the box office environment. Since then, however, it is develop into a beloved beloved, credited mostly to the chemistry and performances of McAdams and Gosling.

“If you want to know why ‘The Notebook’ is deemed form of a passionate vintage, the responses are Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, and that’s the commencing and the conclusion of it,” Cassavetes stated.

The film received the actors the MTV Award for Most effective Kiss in 2005. On stage, the pair engaged in a steamy kiss before accepting the golden popcorn statue. 

The “Barbie” actor and “Mean Girls” actress would go on to split in 2007 after approximately two several years together.

“The only thing I keep in mind is we both equally went down swingin’ and we referred to as it a draw,” Gosling advised GQ Magazine of their separation in 2007.

“God Bless ‘The Notebook,’” Gosling ongoing. “It launched me to just one of the wonderful enjoys of my lifetime. But folks do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were nearly anything like the individuals in that motion picture. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a ton additional passionate than that.”

McAdams, in the meantime, verified there was “tension” on the set of “The Notebook” in a 2016 interview with Yahoo Motion pictures British isles for her position in “Doctor Bizarre.”

“We absolutely had intensive imaginative discussions [on The Notebook],” McAdams recalled. 

She was then requested if she was dreading reuniting with Gosling looking at their previous. Marvel Studios was on the casting hunt at the time for the suitable actor to enjoy Health practitioner Strange and there were rumors that Gosling could get the part.

She responded, “No! Not at all, I’d enjoy to perform with [Ryan] yet again. I didn’t know that [he was linked with Doctor Strange]. Benedict [Cumberbatch] was signed on when it arrived throughout my plate so he’s the only ever Medical professional Bizarre I’ve acknowledged of.”

Gosling now has two daughters with actress Eva Mendes. McAdams, for her element, has a son and daughter with longtime partner Jamie Linden.