Chris Evans’ character in “The Gray Man” calls Gosling’s character a “Ken doll” in a meta reference to Gosling’s upcoming function as Barbie’s bleach-blond accomplice. But being referred to as a “Ken doll” is “not an insult at all,” Gosling mentioned, however an indication that Evans’ character acknowledged a novel vibe inside him.
“I have that Ken-ergy that he could feel, obviously,” he instructed “ET” in the first of many Ken puns. “I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive.”
When host Lauren Zima requested him to elaborate on what, precisely, Ken-ergy is, he merely doubled down: “You have a Ken in your life, and you know that Ken has Ken-ergy.”
Even when he was fielding questions on his new Netflix film, Gosling discovered methods to convey all the things again to Ken, portray a posh image of a toy with a tortured soul and an extremely beneficiant girlfriend.
“That Ken life is even harder than the ‘Gray Man’ life, I think,” he mentioned. “Ken’s got no money, he’s got no job, he’s got no car, he’s got no house. He’s going through some stuff.”
When pressed on the plot particulars of “Barbie,” Gosling performed coy and commenced to blur the traces between our actuality and that of the “Barbie” film.
“Whatever Barbie says is exactly right,” he mentioned. “It’s not what you think it is, unless it is. And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is. Wait, what are we talking about?”
He could not reveal extra, he mentioned; in any other case, Mattel would come and “box [him] up.” Playing plastic for therefore lengthy appears to have gone to Gosling’s head.