Ryan Gosling says having a family has changed his outlook on his acting craft.
In an interview with WSJ Magazine, the 43-year-old actor spoke about being the father of his two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 8, whom he shares with longtime partner Eva Mendes.
Their needs have him avoiding dark roles so that he can be in a better mindset when he returns home. “I don’t really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place,” Gosling said.
“This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us. The decisions I make, I make them with Eva, and we make them with our family in mind first.”
Gosling said this attitude adjustment is a new development for him.
“I think La La Land was the first,” he said. “It was sort of like, oh, this will be fun for them too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing.”
Some of the stunts in his new movie, The Fall Guy, gave him pause. One stunt in particular called for him to drop in from a safety harness from a ledge. “My body turns to stone,” Gosling said.
“I think it’s happened when I had kids — really, you start to be way more conscious of everything you do and everything you’ve ever done and everything you will do if you get a chance to do it.”
