IT’S NICE THAT HOLLYWOOD seems to have finally figured out how best to use Ryan Gosling.
Through much of his career, Gosling has been hired for roles that might be described, in shorthand, as good-looking brooder. In Drive, he was practically mute, a childlike stunt driver with maniacal, some might say sociopathic, focus and dedication to his own set of rules. He wasn’t too different in The Place Beyond the Pines, and it’s hard to say who was more robotic: His “K” in Blade Runner 2049 or his Neil Armstrong in First Man.1 Despite some romantic roles being thrown into the mix in pictures like The Notebook and Crazy, Stupid, Love, one would typically describe his few smiles as “wry” or “knowing.”
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