Yes, Ryan Gosling was also fired from a job and just before filming began, and by none other than Peter Jackson! This is the story.
At a round table of actors organized by The Hollywood Reporter in 2010, Ryan Gosling, who at the time was presenting his film Blue Valentine, He told the story of how he was fired from the set of The Lovely Bones after a disagreement with the director Peter Jackson. The actor had already been chosen to play Jack Salmon, but the role was left in the hands of Mark Wahlberg at the last minute.
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Ryan Gosling grew a beard and followed a diet that made him gain around 27 kilos for the role. This weight gain, which he claims he achieved by eating melted Häagen-Dazs ice cream when he was thirsty, was not well received by the director of The Lord of the rings nor by the producers of The Lovely Bones. However, for Gosling this transformation was essential to bringing Jack Salmon, a grieving father, to life.
I had a different idea about what the character should look like. She really believed that she should weigh 95 kilos.
Peter Jackson did not agree with this vision and fired Gosling just days before the start of production in 2007, some say it was even on the eve of the first day of filming. “We didn’t talk much during the pre-production process, and that was the problem,” Ryan Gosling added. “It was a huge movie, there were so many things to handle and he couldn’t handle the actors individually. I got to the set and he was completely wrong.”
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Now, there is a second version of events. Fran Walsh, collaborator and wife of Peter Jackson, in an interview with Hollywood Reporter A year earlier he said that Gosling had expressed to them several times that he did not feel suitable for the role, that he looked too young. “Ryan told us, ‘I’m not the right person for this role. I’m too young.’ And we said, ‘No, no, no. We can make you look older. We can lighten your hair.’ We were so excited.”
It was only when we were in pre-production and we had the casting there that it became more and more clear: he was so uncomfortable that we started to feel like he wasn’t the right person. It was our desire to make it fit at all costs that blinded us.
Whether because he felt too young or because of his weight gain, Ryan Gosling was not part of the film. “Then I was fat and unemployed.”, concluded the actor. However, this did not stop his career, which since then has taken off enormously, especially after La La Land and Barbie.
