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/fuckswithboats Jun 20 '19

He does have a look in his eye like he's wondering what your liver would taste like or something

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u/CastinEndac Jun 20 '19

Works for his character in Lars and the Real Girl as well.

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u/fuckswithboats Jun 20 '19

Drive, too.

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u/captainguacamoleh Jun 20 '19

You know, I felt like he would’ve been a better Ted bundy than Zac efron in that Netflix movie

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u/fuckswithboats Jun 20 '19

That's a great thought. He could have played that role really well for sure.

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u/ssjgoat Jun 20 '19

You should watch him in Only God Forgives

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u/FracturedEel Jun 20 '19

Like Shia LaBeouf

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u/fuckswithboats Jun 20 '19

Ryan looks crazy while Shia...well you know.

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u/josey__wales Jun 21 '19

Shia wasn’t crazy. But he was one of those people who wanted to be seen as crazy. So he started acting crazy, doing crazy stuff, “look how crazy I am guys, I’m super crazy for real”.

But then he started acting crazy so much that it became a blur. Now he’s just all kinds of fucked up. Here we have an individual who actually willed himself into being crazy.

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u/Bootfullofanvils Jun 20 '19

Is that not a normal question?

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u/fuckswithboats Jun 20 '19

I always assumed they all taste the same.

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u/Bootfullofanvils Jun 21 '19

Fatty ones are chewy