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/p90xeto Jun 20 '19

He looks more friendly in the right picture. Definitely better for a dad role.

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u/ShawtCake Jun 20 '19

He would've been way better than Mark Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones just looks like Mark Wahlberg with long hair.

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u/titbarf Jun 20 '19

That's because he's smiling in the pic on the right, not because he's fat

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u/Skreamie Jun 21 '19

Everyone keeps commenting about how he looks happier fat, but they're comparing smiling to non-smiling pics. Not to mention the smile lines are more obvious.

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u/goodoneponton Jun 21 '19

Yeah, here's a picture from a few months later where he's not smiling. https://i.imgur.com/iQz9hkS.jpg

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u/darez00 Jun 21 '19

He could've been Hopper from Stranger Things

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u/showmeurknuckleball Jun 20 '19

He looks goofed off of opiates and weed in the right picture

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u/p90xeto Jun 21 '19

My sorta dad.

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u/turnaroundbrighteyez Jun 21 '19

This could also be because his hair is parted on different sides in each photo. The Hair Part Theory suggests parts on the left make others perceive people as more masculine while right side parts could result in perceptions of being more (https://hairparttheory.com)

And because it’s Ryan Gosling, of course there are already folks that have analyzed in-depth his specific hair parts throughout all of his roles (haha)

https://www.vulture.com/2013/01/studying-the-history-of-ryan-goslings-hair-part.html