By Ryan Gosling has revealed that he will no longer do overly dark or psychologically twisted roles in order to maintain his mental health for his family.
The Oscar nominee has two children with partner and fellow actor Eva Mendes and is coming off the success of “Barbie” and this week’s “The Fall Guy” which are reflective of the kind of roles he’ll be going for in the future.
Gosling got his big screen start with some dark early roles in films like a neo-Nazi in “The Believer” and a killer in “Murder by Numbers” along with other dark roles in “Blue Valentine,” “All Good Things,” and arguably his last dark onscreen effort with 2013’s “Only God Forgives”.
Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, he reveals the shift happened a few years back when he took the male lead role in “La La Land”:
“I don’t really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place. This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us. The decisions I make, I make them with Eva and we make them with our family in mind first.
I think ‘La La Land’ was the first. It was just sort of like, ‘Oh, this will be fun for them, too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing.’
Their interest in ‘Barbie’ and their disinterest in Ken was an inspiration. I thought, they were already making little movies about their Barbies on the iPad when it happened, so the fact that I was going off to work to make one too, we just felt like we were aligned.”
“The Fall Guy” is out in cinemas around the world now and will hit the United States this Friday.
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