Ryan Gosling Skips Darker Film Roles Because Of Eva Mendes & Daughters

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00:00 Ryan Gosling is revealing nowadays

00:02 He prefers to play characters who spend more time in fun light fantasies like Barbie land and La La Land

00:09 And it's all because he's a dad

00:11 He revealed he's staying away from darker roles and films because of how they might affect his family

00:17 I don't really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place

00:21 The actor told the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview

00:24 Adding this moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for

00:31 All of us the decisions I make I make them with Ava and we make them with our family in mind first

00:37 The 43 year old shares daughters 9 year old as morale to Amada and 8 year old Amada Lee with partner

00:43 Eva Mendes the couple

00:45 Actually met on the set of one of his darker roles playing a criminal in the place beyond the pines in 2011

00:52 He revealed that one of his biggest blockbuster roles helped him realize how his work could impact his home life

00:58 I think La La Land was the first it was sort of like oh this will be fun for them, too

01:04 Because even though they're not coming to set we're practicing piano every day or we're dancing or we're singing

01:09 But even playing characters that seem more fun. There are occupational hazards

01:14 He's thinking twice about in his latest movie the Fall Guy

01:18 Gosling plays a stuntman and as you can imagine the film is packed with action and stunts

01:24 Ryan says he thinks about the action scenes differently since becoming a parent

01:29 I think it happened when I had kids really you start to be way more

01:32 conscious of everything you do and everything you've ever done and

01:36 Everything you will do if you get a chance to do it in the Fall Guy one of the stunts performed by Ryan's character is

01:43 Being set on fire talking with people Gosling revealed his daughters didn't like the idea of their dad going up in flames

01:50 My kids didn't want me to be set on fire

01:52 Even though I said well, it's actually technically the safer thing to do because there's a lot of protective stuff involved

01:59 Ultimately he avoided the flames the actor has been singing praises of the stuntman who did step in for him in the more

02:06 dangerous scenes most of the cool all of the really cool stuff was done by you know

02:12 Stunt professionals. Yeah, so like a world record was broken for the most canon roles in a film that was done by Logan Holiday

02:18 Anytime I'm set on fire or hit by a car. That's Ben Jenkins

02:23 There's all the cool

02:26 Martial arts stuff is Justin Eaton and then there's an amazing

02:29 Fall at the end of the film from a helicopter that's done by Troy Brown during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel live

02:35 Gosling performed a funny stunt sketch with his stunt doubles before introducing them

02:40 The stunt guys you were fighting only here. Can we bring them out and say hi? Yeah, let's bring them out and say hi

02:47 This is my real stuff to him

03:07 The Fall Guy is out in theaters May 3rd

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