Ryan Gosling reveals the surprising ‘La La Land’ scene he would love to do again

Despite scoring a Best Actor Oscar nomination for La La Landthere’s still one scene Ryan Gosling could do again, if he had the chance.

The Fall guy actor, 43, admitted in an interview for WJ. MagazineIn the June/July issue of the film, it turns out that the way his hand looks on the movie poster – bent, instead of straight up in the air like costar Emma Stone’s – has always bothered him.

‘There is a moment that haunts me where we are dancing, Emma and I. And I didn’t know this was going to be the poster for the movie,” Gosling said with a sigh.

He recalled the moment before filming: “We had to hold our hands up, and I thought it would be cool to hold my hand like that.”

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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling on the poster for La La Land (2016).

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And even though “everyone told me it wasn’t cool,” said the Barbie actor said WJ. Magazine that he was “confident that (his bent hand gesture) was cooler than (holding his hand straight up).”

“Looking at it now and having to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this? That,” Gosling added as he mimicked the gestures. “It just killed the energy that way.”

“It’s just a lazy… I call it ‘La La Hand,’” he joked.

After the interviewer told Gosling it’s called “hamburger hands” in the dance world, she asked if his dance background was an asset in the role.

“Well, I thought it would help La La Land‘, he said. “Then of course, Hamburger Hands Gosling here… It didn’t help me at all in the end.”

Ryan Gosling in Hollywood, California, on March 10, 2024.

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In the same interview for his cover story, Gosling said La La Land “was the first” film he made after making the decision not to “play roles that will put me in some kind of dark place.”

“Right now I feel like reading the room at home and thinking about what’s best for all of us,” the actor explains. “The decisions I make, I make together with (longtime partner Eva Mendes) and we make them with our family in mind first.”

Since welcoming his two daughters to Mendes — Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 8 — Gosling has taken on roles ranging from musical to comedy and more.

“I think La La Land was the first,” he said WJ. Magazine. “It was just kind of like, oh, this will be fun for them too, because even if they don’t come to the set, we practice piano every day or we dance or sing.”

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