Margot Robbie Ryan Gosling Age Difference

Although Grega Gerwig’s enthralling world of Barbie has the whole world of mortals excited, it is also skeptical about whether the 42-year-old actor, Ryan Gosling is fit for the role of Ken or not. The talk surrounding the age of the aforementioned sidekick of Barbie has been well in circulation from the moment the star-studded cast was exposed to the audiences. From Margot Robbie to Michael Cera, the cast is an incredible set of talents that has people eagerly anticipating the summer.

Now that the release date is drawing close, the press interviews and promotional events are growing in number, giving the cast the opportunity to share the chance to showcase their perspectives. Thus, on a similar occasion, Gosling graced the 2023 summer cover for GQ and presented his side on the ongoing age debate.

Well, Ryan Gosling certainly looks the part with a chiseled body and bleached hair, he has successfully transformed into the plastic perfect boy toy of the Mattel icon, Barbie. Originally released in 1959, Barbie is two years older than Ken who was launched in 1961 in the markets. In the

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Movie, however, people have a problem with Hollywood’s old ways, as the actor Ryan Gosling is 10 years older than Margot Robbie.

Just after the posters for the movie were released announcing all their Barbie and Ken dolls, many pointed out that imagining a 40-something-year-old in place of an evergreen and youthful Ken would be difficult. One Twitter user declared,

Comments surrounding him wrong time and again. His mannerisms showcased in the teasers and the trailer sure was uncanny. Many also came in defense of the actor and expressed their anticipation on social media platforms. Only time can tell if the actor was successful in playing the jovial boyfriend of the Barbie doll.

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The mysterious character about whom not much is known to the public, except for being Barbie’s loyal boy toy and that his job is

. Who really is Ken? Do people really care about him? These are the question Ryan Gosling had to face when he was contemplating whether he should play the part. Thus, came to a jarring conclusion that compelled him into voicing his story even more. In the 2023 summer cover for GQ Magazine, the actor defended both himself and his character from the hate they have been receiving since the leaked footage release from the sets.

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Actor, it is Barbie’s world and Ken is just living in it. Not many cared about the doll, until now, when they have a controversy to dig into. He said,

“And everyone was fine with that, for him to have a job that is nothing. But suddenly, it’s like, ‘No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time.’ No, you didn’t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never f**ked with Ken. That’s the point. If you ever really cared about Ken, you would know that nobody cared about Ken. So your hypocrisy is exposed. This is why his story must be told.”

Gosling made one thing pretty clear no matter how much the world detests him for playing the part, he will fight for the doll, and serve him the justice he deserves. He said,

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“I care about this dude now. I’m like his representative. ‘Ken couldn’t show up to receive this award, so I’m here to accept it for him.’ ”

Therefore people are now even more eager to see what all the much-hyped flick is about. Will it live up to its hype? Will people accept Ryan Gosling as one of the Kens? All will be answered 21st of July when the movie finally hits the theatres.

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Sampurna Banerjee is an ardent pop-culture enthusiast and a movie lover. Thus, working as a writer for . The latest tidbits about the entertainment industry never go past her eyes. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.Mining a cultural artifact like Barbie can be treacherous. Hew too close to the original material and you’re considered reductive. Stray too far and you’re disrespectful. Add in the fact that Barbie is one of the best known — and most problematic — brands in the world and it’s easy to see how it could all go so wrong.

Yet, it was exactly that tricky calculus that drew Margot Robbie to this roughly 60-year-old plastic figurine that simultaneously projects unhealthy body ideals and female empowerment. Though Robbie may look like the stereotypical Barbie, she herself was not much interested in playing with the impossibly perfect doll as a child. (She preferred the outdoors in her native Australia.) Still, as a committed producer on films like “I, Tonya” and “Promising Young Woman, ” she tracked the progression of Mattel’s efforts to create a live-action “Barbie” movie precisely because of its difficulty.

“She is so iconic, but she’s also so complicated, ” said Robbie, who produced “Barbie” with her husband, Tom Ackerley, and their company, LuckyChap Entertainment.

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“There’s been real issues with Barbie over the years and there’s been real love, ” she said in her Australian lilt. “The conversation has kept evolving. I think ultimately it is a conversation we’re having about ourselves, but it’s easy to put it on Barbie.”

Robbie along with her Ken, Ryan Gosling, and I were speaking in Beverly Hills a few weeks before the film opens on July 21, a date that has turned into a gender battle at the box office between “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour historical drama about the making of the atomic bomb, “Oppenheimer.”

That hasn’t stopped Robbie and Gosling from vibrating with excitement over what they’ve created and the deep understanding their writer-director Greta Gerwig had for the material. (Gerwig co-wrote the script with her partner, Noah Baumbach.)

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Gosling compared her work to Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can: “It’s like showing you this thing that you’ve seen a million times as art, ” he said. “Once I read the script, I felt like I was seeing all these things that were around me in a completely new and deep and hilarious way.”

Gerwig in an email likened her stars to “top-flight race cars just hanging out and sometimes racing, but just for fun, ” and added “I think they were both just delighted by the other.”

In our conversation Robbie and Gosling spoke about Friday-night script readings with Mattel executives, how Ken is regarded in the Gosling household and leaning in to the thorny aspects of Barbie. Here are edited excerpts.

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Robbie, left, with Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt and America Ferrera, said that when it comes to issues surrounding Barbie dolls, “ultimately it is a conversation we’re having about ourselves, but it’s easy to put it on Barbie.”Credit... Warner Bros.

MARGOT ROBBIE I don’t know if I had my own Barbie, but I played with my cousin’s. I think we did all the things that every kid does, like bang them together. I didn’t really know what that was about, but I was trying to figure it out.

GOSLING I let that guy retire because he got me here. But I had to pull him out of retirement for this film. One last heist.

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ROBBIE Tom and I would call the key executives at Warners and Mattel beforehand. We’d make sure we’d do it on a Friday night. And we would say, “Go make yourself a drink, your favorite cocktail. We want you to sit down. Now make yourself another one of those cocktails, then start reading the script and just go on the ride.” In other words, we thought they were going to be like “No, ” and maybe if they’re a little bit tipsy, they’ll open their minds to how fun this is.

Then it was a process. We’d have like six-hour chats with the teams at Mattel and we’d be like OK, tell us exactly why this line scares you? We’d already done the process of understanding what they’ve built. We spent time at Mattel headquarters, we went into their factories, we watched them make a doll and we talked to people who make them. They knew we were coming from a place of respecting the brand.

But at the same time, you need to be able to point out all the things that people have found problematic about Barbie. Greta would say, run toward that, that’s going to be more interesting.

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ROBBIE There was a long laundry list of concerns. By the way, we had total freedom. They weren’t allowed to dictate the movie, but we didn’t want to make a movie that they weren’t going to be supportive of as well.

Some things are tiny, like her referring to herself as Stereotypical Barbie. The word “stereotypical” has negative connotations attached to it. They asked if we would consider a different word. Sure, I said, “We could call her