kenistod
20302
356
12
The Role: Gosling was originally cast in 2007 as grieving father Jack Salmon in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones.
The Method: Believing the character should weigh 210 pounds instead of his baseline 150 pounds, Gosling gained 60 pounds by melting cartons of Häagen-Dazs ice cream and drinking it whenever he was thirsty.
The Firing: When he arrived on set, director Peter Jackson was shocked by the physical change because they had a completely different vision for the character.
The Replacement: Gosling was let go just days before filming began and was replaced by Mark Wahlberg, leaving him, in his own words, "fat and unemployed"
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
Happens to women all the time. He'll be fine.
TheInternetNeedsMoreCats
I love hearing about the insane lengths some people go to gain weight, when there is I, who will gain 60lbs in sympathy when I watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
zanaria
Yeah not a good idea to just go and make decisions like that on your own.
WindowStreetJournal
It's interesting that learning this and knowing his career path, I have to admit that talent comes through troubles and prevails, because damn, he's really good and successful. Fat Gosling looks also good.
Pentjotal
31 %
Rotten Tomatoes
IgnisInvictus
... why in the hell would you not check with the director first?
wanderer2575
Because a hot-shit actor thinks he's above the director, producer, writer, and everyone else.
EvilEmperorXurg
Ah well, I’m sure his new gig as Ghost Rider will do him just fine.
URNOTFUNNY1226
He's with Eva Mendes. Nuff said.
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
That's a stagering difference between those two images. Makes me wonder how different I'd look if I lost some weight off my fat ass.
UnoriginalPieceOfRepeatingShit
He dodged a bullet cos boy did that movie suck
Mahcks
Wat. Gosling is 6ft tall. 150lbs is ridiculously underweight.
retepronnoco
He seems to have landed on his feet.
JarJarDrinks
The director of Copland ordered Stallone to gain 60 pounds for the role. His method? Cheesecake. Lots and lots of cheesecake.
Aeonika
Sounds like a party to me
Pasquinelthe2nd
(Takes fork out of pocket) Alright... whadda we got?
Sebastopol140
ShimmerinStrider
HAM ON! HAM ON WHOLE WHEAT, OR RYE!
SleazyBijou
Yeah I’m sorry but the interwebs says he’s 6’0-1/2”… 172-180lbs normally. 150lbs is ridiculously thin. (I weighed 155lbs senior year of high school.)
Bojovnik84
I would have made the excuse that my wife Eva Mendes, keeps me well fed.
Pasquinelthe2nd
Were they even married by that point?
EllawoodBlues
Nope. They met on "The Place Beyond The Pines" in 2012. Lovely Bones predates that by 5 years
lazybuthappy
Eva: THEY TOLD YOU WHAT???
DYLANLEE79
I find it perplexing that you would substitute Mark Walhberg and Ryan Gosling. Like, it's like substituting Skittles for dark chocolate chips in a cookie recipe. (Walhberg is Skittles)
BrickSprickly
Especially because the antagonist looks a lot like Gosling already
todaytomorrowwillbeyesterday
Wahlberg sucks the sweat off a dead donkeys balls. True story
W0lfsbl00d
Skittles? That's being a bit generous. Maybe Candy Corn...
QueenOfTheFey
Don't be mean to skittles
seir
I try the ice cream method any time I drop below 60KG/132 pounds, or use a lot of butter in my cooking. It doesn't help that I'm mildly lactose intolerant and don't learn from previous lessons
Scobragon
I don't like Peter Jackson. He took too many liberties with Lord of the Rings and obfuscated everything with grand visuals, which were great, but he activelly went against the source material. His biggest crime was the fact he left out Tom Bombadil, because he hated the character, not because it would have padded the runtime too much, but because he hated him. Tom Bombadil was important character for Tolkien, and it was a red flag... Then the Hobbit happened...
resworn
Dead Alive and Frighteners are good tho
oktobermoon
A fact nobody wants to hear: The Hobbit was a bedtime story he told his children. He originally wrote it down because he was confusing details and his kids kept calling him on it.
Old Tom Bombadil was a character he made up in their toddler tales, his own “The wind in the willows” (which also had an ill tempered willow). That’s why he is primordial in the later books, "Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before river and the trees…” Literally the original cameo.
Kbantar
Tom was horribly jarring for the story. No sane director would put him in a serious live actions version of TLOTR
TheRoyalDong
Tom is not important at all. A fun character but not necessary.
MotoCanuck
Dodged a bullet and got to eat haagan-daaz
DeakVanNyke
210 pounds of Gossling for (assuming) 150 pounds of Wahlberg .. that must be in the top10 worst trades in the 21st century
UnitConversionBot
60 pounds ≈ 27 kilograms or 4 stone, 4 pounds
UnitConversionBot
210 pounds ≈ 95.3 kilograms or 15 stone
UnitConversionBot
150 pounds ≈ 68 kilograms or 10 stone, 10 pounds
EzraFell
I hated that movie. Who wants to watch a pedophile abuse and murder a child, then get away with that?
If I wanted to watch something as disgusting as that predator getting away with it, I'd just watch Trump.
UnoriginalPieceOfRepeatingShit
And the moral of the story was basically "you just have to get over my death and not bother looking for my killer"
TheMoonBnuuy
So...
hear me out...
what if...
because of that...
he got fired like that on purpose?
FreeDadvice
He could have easily just said “no thanks” to the role.
TheMoonBnuuy
yeah but... ice cream...
theykilledmypony
Im happy then that Gosling wasn’t in that movie and it got assigned to Wahlberg.
resworn
*racist, fuck him
resworn
Wahlberg is a garbage request pos tho
alwaysupvotefuturama
Not everything needs to have a fairy tale ending, what would be the point of engaging with any new story?
demosteness
SPOILER ALERT!!
Then why the pedophile ends that way? It sounds like a happy ending. Karma doesn’t fucking exist in real life. Plenty of monsters die happily without any consequences.
zagibu
Karma does exist, but it's not a mystical force, it's building a supportive environment.
demosteness
That’s not karma, that’s another thing that you are naming karma. Please, don’t use a word that has a meaning to name something different, it messes conversations and takes people to confusion. Karma by definition is a mystical force based on the acts of people, that bring equilibrium and some kind of justice. No my friend, it doesn’t exist. You can chose nurturing, fostering or stewardship for that, but not karma.
zagibu
Maybe you should actually get the meaning right if you want to correct someone about the meaning of a certain term.
But you are right, it was incorrectly formulated in my comment, what I meant to say was, a mechanism similar to what is meant by Karma does actually exist. Also known as "paying it forward", and it does work, because it makes the one who received the free help more likely to also help someone in the future.
EzraFell
The movie has a sentimental and whimsical flair to a tragedy. If you want to portray a tragedy well, I don't think you should use whimsy.
JStengah
Never watched Pan's Labyrinth? Del Toro is known for using whimsy to explore tragedy, it helps people cope and deal with horrible things.
JStengah
Jackson not being as good at it as Del Toro is doesn't mean the approach is horrible and should never be done.
periwinklepanda
No joke. I tried reading the book when it came out (I was in HS) and couldn't finish it. Never understood why anyone actually enjoyed it other than perhaps as a learning tool for those in psychology, social services, etc.
Was taken aback and disgusted when I found out it was being made into a movie.
BranDohCalrissian
I only saw the movie once and that was in a HS Psychology class.
Peereezy
A friend recommended the book and let me borrow it. I read the whole thing and felt like shit the entire time thinking there would be a payoff or clarity. I asked him why he told me to read it.
"That's not my book. I never said that."
Yo, what the fuck?
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
I also gained sixty pounds for a role. Excuse me, sixty pounds of rolls
wanderer2575
Rimshot!
decarnatedame
(heavy breathing) With butter?
itsthevoiceman
Generally a good idea to speak with the director about life-altering changes like that. But hey, I see he's got a nice future for himself, so whatever works.
Imademyselfsquirtle
Ryan is Ghost Rider
victor810
I like the cut of your jib
Imademyselfsquirtle
Fuck that speaking to someone if that shit was in their vision they should have told everyone before final casting happened.
GolbatChan
Mostly actors do stuff like this to free their availability for something else without directly quitting and pissing off the studio.
Fuckimgurcunts
Wouldn't he need to use that 60 pounds for something tho yknow? Not just spend the next 6 months working it off with all that professional help
glocksout
And instead he did All Good Things and Blue Valentine
Kbantar
60 pounds is a major health risk just to have some vague plausible deniability.
Asadsadsadclown
Welcome to hollywood.
Kerbal247
That's showbusiness!! (Jazz hands)
SlyMrFox
The muscles many of them gain for their roles is also risky. One of the many reasons I prefer animation to live action.
4etherling
It doesn't have to be at all. It depends on the diet. You can bulk on fish, white meat chicken, fruits, vegetables, rice ect. and there is no real risk. As with all things physical you just need to pay attention to what your body is telling you.
Kbantar
It takes years to bulk up in a healthy manner. But getting a cut look in under a year is just not healthy let alone possible sans drugs.
adamlstf9
The Marvel look is a steroids look.