Does Ryan Gosling Know His Lines From His Most Famous Films?
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00:00 I'm getting like pop quiz anxiety.
00:02 What happens if I get them all,
00:03 well I can't get them all right, but what happens?
00:05 What do you get out of the anxiety I'm feeling right now?
00:08 Good comments on YouTube, okay, okay.
00:10 (upbeat music)
00:13 Honestly, I don't know if I should help you
00:19 or I should euthanize you.
00:20 Already I don't know.
00:25 Honestly, I don't know if I should help you.
00:30 Or euthanize you.
00:31 Nice guys?
00:35 (buzzer)
00:36 Oh, crazy stupid love.
00:39 (bell dings)
00:39 Yes.
00:40 Honestly, I don't know if I should help you
00:42 or I should euthanize you.
00:43 My first job in Hollywood was with Steve Carell
00:47 and we both had sort of small parts.
00:51 We didn't have any scenes together
00:52 and then I went to set to watch him work
00:56 and he was so funny that the boom operator
01:00 had to throw down the boom and hold his ribs.
01:02 That's how hard he was laughing.
01:04 It was the first time I had seen that
01:06 or even thought that that was possible.
01:09 I knew I had to sort of up my game.
01:12 I didn't get to work with him in that,
01:13 but when I did finally get a chance to work with him,
01:15 I wanted to be prepared.
01:17 I'm jacked.
01:19 Jacked to the tits.
01:25 (laughs)
01:27 Is that...
01:33 Big short.
01:37 (bell dings)
01:38 I'm jacked.
01:39 I'm jacked to the tits.
01:41 I remember who I was playing.
01:43 A lot of things had to get condensed in the movie
01:45 just to be a movie and there were things that he,
01:49 and rightfully so, would say, but that never happened.
01:51 I wouldn't get key cards for somebody at a hotel.
01:56 Someone would do that for me.
01:57 Why am I getting the key cards?
01:58 - First, give him the key cards.
02:00 Do you even know which key cards you're giving out?
02:02 - We just decided that I would look at the camera
02:03 and just say, I would never do this.
02:05 I would never get key cards.
02:06 We would just say it on camera
02:08 and that's like the best we could do.
02:09 - I get it.
02:10 I can feel you judging me.
02:12 That's palpable.
02:13 - It ended up being kind of like a fun way
02:15 to still do what you needed to do
02:17 with the narrative in the film,
02:19 but also be able to sort of like acknowledge
02:21 some of the indiscrepancies of how that works.
02:25 How much money do I make?
02:28 About 40 cents an hour.
02:30 Oh my God.
02:33 How much money do I make?
02:34 About 40 cents an hour.
02:34 I have no idea.
02:36 How much money do I make?
02:37 About 40 cents an hour.
02:38 What?
02:42 I don't know.
02:45 - How much money do I make?
02:47 Like 40 cents an hour?
02:50 It's funny because when we made it,
02:52 I remember having a conversation with Sam Shepard
02:54 and we loved making it,
02:56 but I remember both of us being like,
02:58 well, no one's going to see this one.
03:00 Okay.
03:01 I guess I'll see you in the movies.
03:04 La La Land?
03:04 - I guess I'll see you in the movies.
03:07 - So many people could relate to that film.
03:08 Even if you weren't in LA,
03:09 sort of obviously about having a dream,
03:11 pursuing that dream,
03:12 how important it is to have someone that believes in you.
03:16 I think I definitely connected to it on those levels.
03:19 [piano music]
03:21 Justin's score was so beautiful.
03:27 You know, I had to spend like months and months
03:29 playing the same little piece.
03:31 It was like, glad that it was so beautiful
03:33 because I never really got sick of it.
03:35 I spent months learning pieces of those pieces.
03:37 And then as soon as it was over,
03:39 it was like, it was gone.
03:41 I like working with music on film.
03:43 When there's music, it's like,
03:46 we all know that's the tone.
03:48 That's what we're doing.
03:49 And especially if there's choreography to it,
03:50 it's a great feeling because you feel like
03:53 everyone's aligned and there's no confusion
03:55 and you're all working towards the same goal.
03:58 And so it feels exciting to just be in sync
04:00 with that many people.
04:01 I have memories, but they're not real.
04:04 They're just implants.
04:05 Blade Runner.
04:06 Yes.
04:08 - I had memories, but
04:09 they're not real.
04:13 They're just implants.
04:14 - The original is just,
04:16 it's iconic.
04:17 It's such a classic.
04:18 Another film that I love is
04:19 Coppola's One From the Heart.
04:21 And apparently Coppola sold all of his neon
04:25 for One From the Heart to Ridley.
04:27 And a lot of the neon in Blade Runner
04:29 is from that film.
04:30 Man, I think working with Harrison,
04:32 they say don't meet your heroes,
04:34 but I would say unless they're Harrison Ford,
04:37 he lives up to the hype.
04:39 Who are you?
04:42 My fairy godmother?
04:42 No.
04:43 Offense.
04:44 I thought, that's not,
04:46 hopefully that's not how I said it.
04:47 Who are you?
04:48 My fairy godmother?
04:49 No offense.
04:50 I thought you'd look different.
04:51 Why can't I remember any of these?
04:56 Who are you?
04:57 My fairy godmother?
04:57 I thought you'd look different.
05:00 I don't know.
05:01 Who are you?
05:02 My fairy godmother?
05:04 No offense.
05:04 I thought you'd look different.
05:05 The Russo's, they had set up their whole video village
05:10 with like the greatest like snacks you could imagine.
05:14 You'd almost have to like move
05:16 all the like chocolate and stuff out of the way
05:19 just to look at the monitor.
05:21 They would order pizza to their tent.
05:23 One time they had hamburgers and Prague,
05:25 a huge bag and they were throwing them out to the crew.
05:28 It was fun.
05:29 They sure know how to do it.
05:33 When I found out that patriarchy wasn't just about horses,
05:38 I lost interest.
05:39 Oh, Barbie.
05:42 Nailed it.
05:44 When I found out that patriarchy
05:45 wasn't about horses, I lost interest.
05:47 I got the script and there was my name.
05:50 It said my full name as Ken.
05:53 And the first line was,
05:55 "If I wasn't severely injured,
05:56 "I would beat you off right now."
05:58 I was like, okay, how am I gonna do this?
06:01 I know I have to, but how is this gonna work?
06:04 I just Ken'd as hard as I could.
06:05 I had to get new sheets because of all the fake tanner
06:09 and just looked like a crime scene in my house.
06:12 Just terrifying handprints on the wall.
06:15 If you didn't know,
06:16 you would just think that was very disturbed.
06:18 Person was living there.
06:20 Change moves in spirals, not circles.
06:25 Half Nelson.
06:27 [bell dings]
06:28 Yes.
06:29 Okay.
06:30 Change moves in spirals, not circles.
06:34 I did a lot of movie drugs in that movie
06:36 and I don't know what they put in movie drugs,
06:38 but it's powerful stuff.
06:40 I remember just the incredible Sheree Gapps.
06:44 She was amazing.
06:45 And working so much without permits
06:47 and having to steal stuff
06:49 and working with Ryan and Anna,
06:50 it was such a gift, that movie,
06:52 to get to work on that film with those people.
06:54 Unlucky guy.
06:55 He can get his own girl and his own kid.
06:58 That's every man's right.
06:59 Place Beyond the Pines.
07:02 [bell dings]
07:03 He can get his own girl and his own kid.
07:05 That's every man's right.
07:06 Working with Derek C. and Francis,
07:08 it's such a special experience.
07:10 He really makes you live the experience of the character
07:13 as much as you can.
07:14 For instance, I get arrested and put in jail in the film.
07:17 And so, he would have you go through the process
07:19 of getting arrested,
07:20 go through the process of getting booked,
07:22 sit in jail all day,
07:24 wait for your one phone call.
07:26 I remember I had one phone call
07:28 and I called Ben Mendelsohn.
07:30 Unless I can convince him to come and get me,
07:32 Derek might just keep me there all night, I don't know.
07:34 And he had music on so loud he couldn't hear me.
07:38 And I was trying to explain to him,
07:39 I'm in jail, I need you to come get me out.
07:41 And he just was like, I can't hear you, call back.
07:45 And that was it, that was my one call.
07:47 And then, I think Derek just put me back in the cell
07:51 for a little while as punishment
07:53 because I couldn't make that work.
07:56 I give you five minutes.
07:59 Oh, I give you five.
08:02 I give you five minutes when we get there.
08:04 Anything happens in that five minutes.
08:06 And I wouldn't get the part right now.
08:08 I wouldn't even get a call back for this.
08:12 I'll give you five minutes when we get there.
08:14 Anything happens in that five minutes
08:16 and I'm yours no matter what.
08:18 Drive.
08:19 I give you five minutes when we get there.
08:22 Anything happens in that five minutes
08:24 and I'm yours no matter what.
08:25 Those are Nick Graffin movies.
08:27 And the way it all came about was,
08:28 we actually had a bad meeting.
08:30 It felt like we weren't gonna work together.
08:32 I drove him home 'cause he doesn't drive.
08:33 I was playing "R.E.O. Speedwagon" on the radio
08:36 and I heard sniffling.
08:38 I looked over and he was crying.
08:39 And he said, "This is it.
08:40 "This is the movie."
08:41 And it was this moment for him of driving around L.A.,
08:45 just listening to music.
08:46 And I worked with this great stunt driver named J. Fry.
08:49 We would just go to a parking lot
08:51 and we would run this car until it wouldn't run anymore
08:56 and then they'd tow it away.
08:57 And when it was fixed, we'd come back and we'd keep going.
09:00 And it was kind of the most fun prep
09:03 for a film I've ever done.
09:05 In my experience, the prettier a girl is,
09:08 the more nuts she is.
09:10 Oh, "Blue Valentine"?
09:13 In my experience, the prettier a girl is,
09:15 the more nuts she is.
09:17 Michelle is brilliant and gave so much to that role
09:22 that it was inspiring for all of us
09:24 and just trying to meet her level of commitment.
09:28 And I think she was involved even before I was.
09:32 And I had been involved for a long time.
09:34 One thought was because I was too young at the time
09:37 to play the older part of the storyline,
09:39 to play the father, that we would shoot the first part
09:42 at that time and wait five or 10 years
09:46 and then shoot the second half.
09:47 Of course, nobody would finance that
09:49 and we couldn't make that happen.
09:51 But we ended up spending so much time
09:53 trying to get the financing that I was old enough
09:56 to do it finally.
09:59 But it was years.
10:01 Let me get this straight.
10:03 You made a porno film where there's,
10:04 the point is the plot.
10:06 Oh, nice guys.
10:07 Let me get this straight.
10:08 You made a porno film where the point was the plot.
10:11 Russell was so helpful.
10:13 The first time we really worked
10:14 was in this bathroom stall scene where I'm on the toilet.
10:17 And I was trying to work out this way
10:19 to work with the door and the gun.
10:20 I had a cigarette, all these things.
10:22 I didn't know Russell and I just knew his work
10:25 and I knew that he was a very serious actor.
10:27 At one point, the door opened and he was standing there
10:29 and he was smoking.
10:30 And he was staring at me and I thought, "Oh no, he hates it."
10:34 And he was like, "If you want the door to bounce,
10:38 "you have to hit it with your heel.
10:39 "And if you want the cigarette to hit the thing,
10:41 "you gotta do it."
10:42 And he knew immediately what I was trying to do.
10:44 (door slams)
10:45 - Hey, no.
10:47 - He stepped right in and helped me so much.
10:49 And so I knew like right from that moment on,
10:51 I was gonna have like just the best partner.
10:55 Well, actually me and Justin were wondering
10:57 how you guys got the name for your band Xscape.
11:01 Oh, Mickey Mouse Club?
11:05 - Actually me and Justin were wondering
11:07 how you guys got the name for your band Xscape.
11:09 - I remember about the audition.
11:12 I don't know, I was dancing in a,
11:14 like a little dance troupe in my hometown.
11:17 All the girls were going to audition for the show.
11:19 So I went too and I don't know,
11:21 somehow I ended up in a trailer park in Kissimmee, Florida.
11:25 (laughs)
11:26 Shooting the Mickey Mouse Club for two years.
11:29 Working for Disney and on that show,
11:32 it trains you to be professional.
11:35 Everyone on that show besides myself
11:37 was some kind of like child prodigy.
11:39 But I also think that they,
11:41 that experience really kind of taught everybody
11:44 a kind of work ethic or something
11:45 that helped going forward.
11:48 (upbeat music)
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11:55 (upbeat music)
11:58 you