It’s a battle of the Kens in actual life.
Amid the continued fan craze over Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie film, a video has resurfaced of Ryan Gosling (Ken) brusquely dismissing co-star Simu Liu (additionally Ken) on the movie’s press day in Canada final month.
As the duo posed for photographers on the purple carpet on June 28, Liu, 34, tried to slide his hand round Gosling’s waist.
It seems Gosling, 42, wasn’t too keen on the gesture, seemingly saying, “Don’t hold me there, man. I mean, do you want me to touch you like that?”
In response, Liu stated, “You don’t what – oh, it’s too tender? Fair enough,” earlier than eradicating his arm away from Gosling.
Naturally, fans were quick to weigh in on the awkward interaction via social media.
“Oh I’d literally never show my face again,” one argued on Twitter, whereas one other famous, “He [Gosling] was so mad after like you can see it in his face.”
Meanwhile, others theorised that maybe Gosling and Liu had been simply attempting to play up their roles as completely different Kens within the movie.
“I think it’s their characters playing like they hate each other cause they are in competition with each other in the movie,” one fan defined. “It ain’t that deep.”
As beforehand reported, Gosling has acquired raving critiques for his position as Barbie’s clueless male sidekick.
However, previous to the movie’s launch, he was pressured to defend his casting earlier this yr when trolls claimed he was “too old” for the half.
“I would say, you know, if people don’t want to play with my Ken, there are many other Kens to play with,” he informed GQ in a June interview, including he thinks the livid discourse over Ken is “funny” given that individuals didn’t even take into consideration Ken earlier than he was solid.
“But suddenly, it’s like, ’No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time,’” he added. “No, you didn’t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never f***ed with Ken. That’s the point.”
The Notebook star concluded, “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.”
Barbie, which stars Margot Robbie because the titular, flaxen-haired character, is already a field workplace smash.
The Gerwig-directed flick, in cinemas now, pulled in over $21.6 million in Australia on its first weekend of launch and a whopping $501 million worldwide.
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
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