Ryan Gosling has also accepted the role of Ken for his daughters

Hollywood star Ryan Gosling says he accepted the role of Ken in the “Barbie” film because of his seven- and eight-year-old daughters, who are Barbie doll fans in his own home. “One day I saw Ken face down in the mud next to a crushed lemon,” Gosling tells the new GQ magazine, “and I thought, ‘This man’s story needs to be told.'”

Gosling muses in GQ about Ken whose job is the beach (“Everyone agreed he had a job that doesn’t mean anything”) and that nobody cares about the Barbie boyfriend (“I’ll take care of this one guy, I’m like his deputy”).

The parallel between Gosling and Ken

He supposedly sees connections between the film character Ken and his own childhood. “There’s something about this Ken that I think really connects to this version of me. The guy who wore Hammer pants and danced at the mall, who smelled like Drakkar Noir and wore bangs.

I owe a lot to that boy.” He distanced himself from that childhood self when he started making serious films. “But really, he’s the reason I have everything I have.”

Children only with Eva Mendes

It was also when he met his wife, Eva Mendes, that his desire to have children first arose. “It’s true that I didn’t think about children before I met her. But after meeting Eva, I realized that I just didn’t have children without her,” explains Gosling.

“There were moments on ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ where we pretended to be a family – and I really didn’t want it to be pretended anymore.” The actor realized he would be lucky if he shared a life with Mendes.

The first time he introduced himself as a father was just before his first daughter was born – when Mendes told him she was pregnant. He would “never” want to return to his old life without his partner and children. “I’m glad I wasn’t in control of my destiny in that way, because it was so much better than I ever imagined,” says Gosling.