Ryan Gosling On 'Drive,' Cary Mulligan

He may be a marque movie star, but Ryan Gosling is blazing a trail through indie film with his thoughtful role choices. Born and bred in Ontario, Canada, for the early half of his childhood, Gosling answered questions about his latest film, Drive, at the 2011 Cannes Festival. Gosling began his career as a tot on the Mickey Mouse Club alongside future pop stars Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. While Gosling sang and acted on the Mickey Mouse Club, he went in a different direction than his co-stars and pursued his talents in acting. (In 2007, Gosling resurrected his singing career and formed the band, Dead Man’s Bones.)

Post-Mickey Mouse Club, Gosling appeared in multiple television shows such as the Nickelodeon favorite, Are You Afraid of the Dark? and another bone-chilling show, Goosebumps. He moved on to independent films, where he played dark and emotionally torn characters in The Believer and Murder By Numbers. Gosling became an official Hollywood heartthrob after starring in the tragically romantic film, The Notebook, opposite Rachel McAdams. Gosling and McAdams embarked on a two-year relationship after the production of the film, and he has been quoted as saying that McAdams was one of the greatest loves of his life. He has also dated other big names in Hollywood such as Kat Dennings, Blake Lively, Olivia Wilde and Eva Mendes, but none of them had the same effect as McAdams.

In 2007, Gosling was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a leading role for his performance as a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson. Then, for a few years, Gosling took a break from the Hollywood limelight until 2010 when he starred in Blue Valentine opposite Michelle Williams, which garnered him further critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. By the end of 2011, Gosling will have cranked out five films with him playing the lead role in just about two years time — including All Good Things, Crazy Stupid Love, Drive and The Ides of March.

Based on the novel by James Sallis, Gosling’s latest movie Drive is about a seriously disturbed Hollywood stunt man who gets involved with his neighbor’s mob debt acting as his getaway driver. In an interview with Uinterview founder Erik Meers at the Cannes Festival, Gosling answered questions about his role and working on the film. Gosling comments on his character’s personality, dealing with his complexities and the strangeness of his on-screen romance with co-star Cary Mulligan. “When we took out the sexuality, it became more about, that he was her knight and his duty was to serve and die for her, and that was his destiny, and she was a princess locked in a tower, and he needed to slay a dragon,” he says.

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