Call it the zen of Ryan. During a roundtable interview with Ryan Gosling and filmmaker Derek Cianfrance for their latest film, The Place Beyond The Pines , I asked the actor if he felt that the media focused too much on the more superficial aspects of his acting career — remember the hubub over Bradley Cooper being chosen over him as People magazine’s sexiest man of the year last fall? — when he keeps proving himself to be one of the finest actors working today. “I’m not really allowed to have an opinion so I just choose to not think about it,” Gosling said. “It is what it is.” After memorable performances last year in Drive , Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid Love , Gosling is riveting in The Place Beyond The Pines as a former stunt motorcyclist who turns to bank-robbing to support a son he fathered. Although the film has yet to secure a distributor, the buzz at the festival on Saturday night was that it was only a matter of time. During the roundtable interview — more of which we’ll post tomorrow — Gosling and Cianfrance, who previously worked together on the 2010 heartwrencher Blue Valentine , did not look like they were worried about their film reaching a wider audience. Asked what made the actor special, Cianfrance sounded mostly sincere when he called Gosling a “magic person who makes things better,” adding: “We’ve all seen him save people from getting hit by a car, and we’ve all seen him break up fights in the city. He makes the world a better place. And that’s what he does in a movie. He makes me a better filmmaker and everyone around him better.” In response to the same question, the deadpan Gosling replied: “I look like Derek.” Gosling declined to reveal the plot of his directorial debut, How to Catch A Monster , during the interview, but, elsewhere in Toronto, the star of his movie, Christina Hendricks was spilling the beans to Vulture . The actress said she portrays a single mother “supporting two children and trying to provide a home for them ” who finds herself working a “very surreal” fetish club “that gets me into a sort of predicament” while her two boys discover an underground city. Sounds like Fifty Shades of Grey meets City of Ember . Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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Ryan Gosling: ‘I’m Not Allowed to Have An Opinion’ About The Media’s Coverage Of My Life