The girls were squealing for Ryan Gosling on Wednesday night, first on the red carpet outside the Ryerson Theatre for the Canadian premiere of his film Blue Valentine, and again during the screening, when his character takes his shirt off. (Gosling and Michelle Williams play a married couple in the throes of a breakup, juxtaposed against flashbacks of them falling in love.)
Then the girls switched to cooing when Gosling appeared on stage carrying in his arms Faith Wladyka, the young actress who plays his daughter in the movie. Gosling said his scenes with Wladyka were his favourite to film.
“Not since Hall and Oates has there been a team like this,” he said, giving Wladyka a high-five.
He deflected most other questions, though. Asked to sing Happy Birthday to an audience member, he got the whole crowd to sing along. Asked whether the tattoos his character sports in the film were real, especially one that depicts the cover of the book The Giving Tree, he responded, “The Giving Tree seemed like a good idea. It’s about a codependent, a classic enabler.”
Then he fell silent.
“Okay, we’re going to go to the next question,” the moderator said, getting a big laugh.
But when an audience member asked the director a question that he’d answered a moment before, Gosling perked up. “Are you high back there?” he called out. “You want to share it with everyone?”
