Ryan Gosling reveals ‘my kids didn’t want me to be set on fire’ in new action comedy The The Fall Guy
In the new film, released on March 12, 2024, Ryan Gosling plays Colt Sievers, a Hollywood stunt performer who works as a stunt double for well-known action star Tom Ryder.
When a stunt goes wrong, Ryan is seriously injured, after which he leaves his girlfriend, Jody Moreno, a camerawoman.
In an interview with US Today, The Golden Globe Award and nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards winner reveled that.
“You could see the fear in my eyes,” he says. “I have a fear of heights. And they dropped me 12 stories.
“I think I blacked out. Honestly, I don’t remember much.”
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Emily Blunt, who played the ex-girlfriend, Jodie Moreno, states, “Ryan had to put sunglasses on during that stunt because he was so scared. He was worried you’d see the whites of his eyes.”
She further added, “You could hear a pin drop. I was terrified watching you do that.”
What Ryan Gosling thinks about cinema’s stunt performers
Based on The Fall Guy by Glen A. Larson, it is a 1980s TV series that retells the stories of stunt performers.
Apart from Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, some of the other stars include Aaron Taylor–Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, and Winston Duke.
The stunt movie was directed by David Leitch, who had previously worked on a few other films, including John Wick (2014) with Chad Stahelski and, most recently Deadpool 2, while the film was written by Drew Pearce.
Gosling also talked about stunt doubles “for most of my life” and praised cinema’s stunt artists as “unsung heroes”.
While Gosling continued, “It took, like, five stunt guys to make one fall guy”
“They do all this really dangerous, amazing stuff. They kind of come in and risk everything and then disappear. If they do their job well, you never know that they were there,” he says.
“It’s just so messed up that they don’t get the credit that they deserve.”
Ryan Gosling told PEOPLE “Even though I said, ‘Well, it’s actually, technically the safer thing to do because there’s a lot of protective stuff involved”
Ryan Gosling performed his voice in “Barbie” with Blunt during a “Saturday Night Live” appearance,
Blunt said “I think he knows every line” he added “You can’t out-Swift Swift”
“You don’t even want to try. He’s not an idiot,” Ryan Gosling says.
“I think she was voicing his (feelings), you know. She had the words that he couldn’t say. … And he was so grateful in that moment.”
Adds Blunt: “She has the words for all of our broken souls. That’s the truth. I think Colt’s a die-hard Taylor Swift fan, right?”
She added “It was great to escape the New York winter. I was delighted”
Gosling revealed, who is one of the producers of the film “We were supposed to shoot the film somewhere else. I won’t say where, but it didn’t seem like it would be as fun for my kids”
“We all had a conversation about where it would be, and Australia was the perfect place.”
He adds, “I’ve been lucky enough to have my family come with me on every film I’ve made so far.”
Where Blunt added “Both our families were with us, so that obviously is essential if you’re that far away. And it made it so much more effortless to be able to go to work knowing that we were all together,”
“It was wonderful. I didn’t feel I had to juggle (work and parenting), thank God”