Canadian actor and producer Ryan Gosling is adored by millions worldwide. He started out on The Mickey Mouse Club with the likes of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, and is now one of Hollywood’s leading actors. Here are 9 things you never knew about him
1- The worst thing anyone could possibly call him is a ‘dumb hipster’
2. He once opened a Moroccan restaurant in LA called Tagine, though it ended up making him bankrupt
3. He was supposed to play Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones but was fired because he showed up for filming having gained 60 lbs and sporting a beard, which director Peter Jackson didn’t think would suit the character; the part went to Mark Wahlberg
4. In 2007 he spent two months living completely off the grid in a tent in the woods; producer of Fracture had trouble delivering the film’s script to him because of this
5. Though he’s got a reputation for his good looks, he was cast in The Notebook because the director didn’t think he was good looking. The director’s exact words were, according to Ryan Gosling, ” I want you to play this role because you’re not like the other young actors out there in Hollywood. You’re not handsome, you’re not cool, you’re just a regular guy who looks a bit nuts.’
6. His favourite place to visit is Disneyland; he avoids attention by wearing headphones and a hat
7. For six months while shooting The Mickey Mouse Club, his legal guardian was none other than Justin Timberlake’s mother
8. When he was younger, he used to act as assistant and security guard for his uncle, who was an Elvis impersonator
9. He could have been the sixth member of The Backstreet Boys but turned it down because he thought they were too much of a rip-off of New Kids to be successful
#10 Ryan once bought out the entire Girl Scout Cookie stand and distributed them out to people.
#11 After watching First Blood during childhood he filled a whole Fisher-Price Magic kit with knives and forks and threw them at kids during recess at school. You can see that’s he was nicknamed “trouble.”
#12 When he was a kid, he could deliver the best rendition of “Everybody Dance Now” during childhood.
#13 Britney Spears and Ryan Gosling used to play spin the bottle together they both had their wins and loses.
#14 The car that was used in his movie drive was actually built by him.
#15 Ryan Gosling has a sister Mandi Gosling who produced Miss Advised 2012 and Dateline NBC 1992.
#16 At the age of 12, he acted in episodes ofGoosebumps and Are You Afraid of The Dark.
#17 He tried to give himself a tattoo with a tattoo kit that looked like a cactus though it was supposed to look like a Bloody Monster’s Hand.
“One of my tattoos is supposed to be a monster’s hand dropping a bloody heart but I did it myself with a tattoo kit so it looks like a cactus”
#18 He strongly advocates anti-cow dehorning
#19 After The Notebook he start working at a sandwich restaurant
#20 He saved a woman in real
#21 Ryan Gosling produced and narrated a documentary about the youth called ReGENERATION in 2012.
#22 His band called Dead Man’s Bones where he sings and the songs are all about paranormal phenomena.
#23 There is a sushi restaurant’s bathroom devoted to him in San Diego
#24 Ryan Gosling is an awesome jazz guitarist that you would love to listen to any day.
#25 He is an actual real good person to be with.
#26 Ryan dated Sandra Bullock back in 2002–2003 she was 16 year his senior.
#27 He praised Sandra Bullock and Rachel McAdams to be the best people in his life before Eva Mendes
“I had two of the greatest girlfriends of all time. I haven’t met anybody who could top them.” He said in 2011.
#28 During the troubled times of Hurricane Katrina he loaded the car with items and went to help the people of Mississippi for building a monastery
#29 Ryan hates tattoos according to him,
“A tattoo should never be meaningful because at a certain point you’re going to hate it, and it might as well make you laugh.”
#30 He joined Ballet but quit it afterwards after realizing it wasn’t for him.
#31 He and Rachel McAdams both were born in the same hospital
#32
Blue Velvet’, ‘Roman Holiday’ and ‘East of Eden’, are his favorite movies among others
#33 Gene Wilder is one of his favorite actors.
#34 He loves knitting so much that he could do it all day. That’s the definition of his best day.
#35 Disneyland is his favorite place.
#36 He used @ronnybosling at twitter when he was name was already taken back in 2011.
#37 His official twitter handle now is @RyanGosling
#38 His dog George was love of his life who passed away in 2017.
#39 He went to Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario, Canada
#40 His mother taught him at home because he was constantly bullied at school
#41 At the age of 16 he moved to L.A and in 2007 took his mother and sister to the Oscars.
#42 Went to Chad to make a documentary about the refugees of Darfur
#43 Benecio Del Toro and Ryan Gosling made plans to travel to the jungles of Bolivia for learning survival skills for Che – Guerriglia (2008) (aka “Che”)
#44 In 2013 He announced an unspecified break from acting.
#45 Ryan Gosling has been mentioned in the two popular movies Maps to the Stars (2014) and Birdman (2014)
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#46 He is one of the three popular male actors who were born in 1980 to have claimed more than one Academy Award nominations for acting i-e Half Nelson 2006 and La La Land 2016. However the other two being Jonah Hill and Eddie Redmayne.
#47 In a talent show in 1992 he was the only boy with a group of girl dancers.
#48 He strongly denounces slavery and supports EJI The Equal Justice Initiative
#49 He is an all feminist and respects women deeply. He is proud of his mother and took her to the Oscars as his date.
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