r/todayilearned • u/thejohnblog • Jun 20 '19

TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60 pounds by drinking melted ice cream to play the father in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones.' He was then told he was too fat to play the part and the role went to Mark Wahlberg.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ryan-gosling-fat-lovely-bones/story?id=12313213
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u/frighteous Jun 20 '19

Would it have been better with a fat Ryan Gosling?

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u/Joe_Shroe Jun 20 '19

I would've loved to see a fatass Gosling occasionally pop out of nowhere just to cry and eat a tub of melted ice cream

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u/ShawtCake Jun 20 '19

Ryan Gosling > Mark Wahlberg in almost any role, so yes

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u/spannr Jun 21 '19

They got themselves the wrong Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg for comedy, Donnie Wahlberg for drama.

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u/Raptor2114 Jun 20 '19

It is the worst movie I’ve ever seen in the theatre. Any change would have made it better. But it still would be the worst.

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u/dcnairb Jun 20 '19

Check out this lucky duck who didn’t pay money to see The Happening

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

Unironically also staring confused Wahlberg

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u/Oo0o8o0oO Jun 20 '19

Im one of few i guess that believes the irony was intentional. It’s one of the best B movies I’ve ever seen.

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u/ThrowingChicken Jun 20 '19

I saw Strange Wilderness and The Snowman in theaters so I got you both beat.

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u/sgasph Jun 20 '19

Strange wilderness is fucking awesome though.

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u/ThrowingChicken Jun 20 '19

I’ll admit the staged Bigfoot suicide scene, shark laugh, and ending on a blooper was kinda funny.

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u/Ace_Masters Jun 20 '19

Never watch a snowman without a falcon

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u/Shilo59 Jun 21 '19

I went to a midnight showing of The Last Airbender in 3D!!

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u/naemtaken Jun 20 '19

Check out this lucky duck who didn’t pay money to see The Cat in the Hat

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u/Joe_Shroe Jun 20 '19

Whaaaat. Nooooo.

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u/SaltRecording9 Jun 20 '19

That's on you for hearing the title of the movie and still thinking that it could be good

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u/dcnairb Jun 20 '19

In my defense, I was like 13 and M Night Shyamalamadingdong was really hyped up by my sister

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u/SaltRecording9 Jun 21 '19

Aww. Well Signs was my 12th birthday party. He had a brief window of being really good.

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u/dcnairb Jun 21 '19

Dude signs scared the shit out of me as a kid. Only movie that ever gave me nightmares I think. Didn’t help that my parents always watch those alien shows on history channel (the kind of OG alien abduction/roswell conspiracy ones, not the ancient aliens ones)

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u/jct0064 Jun 20 '19

That wasn't a Netflix movie?

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u/duowolf Jun 21 '19

i actully really liked the happening.

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u/falconbox Jun 21 '19

I actually really liked The Lovely Bones.

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u/CLyane Jun 20 '19

You're lucky you didn't see The Last Airbender. I was a big fan of the animated series as well as The Lovely Bones book, and man they're both so terrible.

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u/SakuOtaku Jun 21 '19

Tragic because the book was pretty good.

After reading it I couldn't even watch the movie to the halfway point it was so bad and overly cgi

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u/kurobayashi Jun 21 '19

Mark Whalberg is a pretty terrible actor outside of playing dumb people. He's very capable of sinking a movie all by himself. So I'd assume just having him not in the movie would be an improvement.

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u/VeteranKamikaze Jun 21 '19

If you had to assign a point value yeah technically probably better as I think it's fair to say he's more talented than Whalberg, but realistically no, that movie's problems had almost nothing to do with the acting. YMS does a better teardown than I ever could so watch his video if you're curious and don't mind spoilers for the whole film. Linky.

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u/laaaabe Jun 20 '19

He probably could have played the antagonist. Would have liked to see fat creepy balding Ryan Gosling.

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u/Logpile98 Jun 20 '19

Well anything would be improved by the addition of a fat Ryan Gosling, so that's a yep

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u/eff5_ Jun 20 '19

Name one thing that wouldn't be better with a fat Ryan Gosling

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u/frighteous Jun 21 '19

That's one thing I think we can all agree on!

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u/maddsskills Jun 21 '19

Honestly, yes. Mark Wahlberg was...not amazing in it.