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 Mouse Clubber to love interest | Type: Internet Article |
| | Mouse Clubber to love interest | Jun 22, 2004 | by Sean Daly
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...Gosling admits he was reprimanded for sharing his knowledge of the birds and the bees with young cast-mates Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. "They would come and ask me questions about sex and I just told them what I heard — like positions and stuff," he confessed two years ago. "All the mothers went to Disney and told them I was corrupting their kids." |
Ex-Mouseketeer Ryan Gosling Cornwall native in The Notebook
LOS ANGELES - You'd think Ryan Gosling would have no problem finding that one special girl. This is, after all, the same guy who reportedly spent most of 2002 romancing his Murder By Numbers co-star Sandra Bullock. But remind the hunky 23-year-old actor about his heartthrob status and legion of adoring female fans, and he immediately dismisses both with a laugh: "They need to get glasses."
Gosling, you see, is not the typical Hollywood Casanova. Behind the rugged six-foot, one-inch physique and bright white movie-star smile is a shy, humble kid from Cornwall, Ont., who was so self-conscious during his years at Lester B. Pearson High School that he would sometimes intentionally skip class picture day. "I didn't want to be judged," he remembers.
Never mind the constant bullying from fellow students. "I was singled out as `the stupid guy' and beat up every single day," Gosling revealed in a recently published interview. Now the former TV Mouseketeer — who was home-schooled for a year during elementary school — admits there was actually more to the story and wants to set the record straight.
"The truth is I picked most of those fights," he says. "I just lost most of them. I told my mother I got beat up just to get some sympathy. It really wasn't so bad."
Gosling's grades, however, were another story. He never excelled in the classroom, but did form close bonds with several faculty members, including his history, world religion, and auto shop teachers. Still, that doesn't mean Gosling is the guy to call if your Honda Civic blows a gasket on the shoulder of Lakeshore Blvd. "I can fill up your tank, but that's about it," he reports with a laugh. "I can take care of that and maybe washing the windows ..."
Luckily, Gosling never planned on becoming a grease monkey. The only son born to Donna, a hospital worker, and Thomas, a paper mill employee, he grew up "thinking about normal kid stuff, like being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman or whatever." Then at age 11, he got his first big break — a regular spot on The New Mickey Mouse Club. During the two-year stint, Gosling admits he was reprimanded for sharing his knowledge of the birds and the bees with young cast-mates Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.
"They would come and ask me questions about sex and I just told them what I heard — like positions and stuff," he confessed two years ago. "All the mothers went to Disney and told them I was corrupting their kids."
Gosling — known to some of his friends as Opie — hasn't seen much of his former co-stars lately. "We don't really talk," he told E! Online. "It's kind of like high school. You have great friends and then you get older and you just have your own lives."
Not that there is much time for social activities anyway. An accomplished jazz guitarist who once earned extra cash singing with his older sister Mandi at weddings and fashion shows, Gosling has already appeared in more than a dozen films including Remember The Titans and The Believer. On Friday he makes his debut as a leading man in the tear-jerker The Notebook, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-selling paperback.
"Basically, I play a guy that writes 365 letters to a girl who is engaged to someone else," Gosling said. "And he builds a house for her and kind of pretends to live with her. In any other movie, this guy is getting locked up, but here, that stuff is romantic."
Gosling has played guys who were equally passionate before — most recently in The United States Of Leland — "but their passions were paid for with jail time or death. This guy gets the girl. And that's the way it should be if you ask me."
"The girl" is a fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams, most recently seen in the high school comedy Mean Girls. The two actors never met until the first day of script reading. This time around there was no romance on the set. In fact, it took a little time to develop their onscreen chemistry, McAdams says.
"There's so many trust issues and working all that stuff out in the beginning takes a lot of time getting to know a partner. But I think we took on the personality of our characters as well. Ryan was quiet and settled and very intellectual and became that Man of the Earth. I was sort of flying up over here and bouncing all the walls. We were total opposites."
The Notebook is a flashback story set in the southern United States during the early 1940s. McAdams is a spoiled rich girl who finds her one true love in a working class boy named Noah.
"Doing this film made me a blubbering idiot ready to fall in love at the drop of a hat," Gosling said. "Of course, by the time I finish Che (his next project, about Argentine insurrectionist Che Guevara, a longtime comrade of Fidel Castro) I'll be ready to start a revolution. So I better find the love of my life pretty quick."Ryan Gosling was a Mouseketeer with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.Ryan Gosling was a Mousketeer with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. |
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