{"id":71232,"date":"2023-06-01T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=71232"},"modified":"2023-06-01T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T00:08:18","slug":"ryan-gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-ken-in-barbie-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ryan-gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-ken-in-barbie-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling opens up about critics for being too &#8216;old&#8217; for Ken in &#8216;Barbie&#8217; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ryan Gosling<\/strong> has given his sincere opinion in a recent interview with<strong> GQ magazine<\/strong> about criticism he received on social media when the &#8216;#notmyken&#8217; hashtag gained strength for apparently being too &#8216;old&#8217; to be <strong>Ken<\/strong> in the upcoming Warner Bros. film &#8216;<strong>Barbie<\/strong>&#8216; live action.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie2-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I would say, you know, if people don&#8217;t want to play with my Ken, there are many other Kens to play with<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Gosling said a bit amused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>It is funny<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, he continued, &#8220;<em><strong>this kind of idea of #notmyken. Like you ever thought about Ken before this?<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>And everyone was fine with that, for him to have a job that is nothing. But suddenly, it&#8217;s like, &#8216;No, we&#8217;ve cared about Ken this whole time.&#8217; No, you didn&#8217;t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never fucked with Ken. That&#8217;s the point. 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<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, finished the actor.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/2023\/06\/01\/exo-baekhyun-chen-and-xiumin-sue-sm-entertainment-and-terminate-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EXO: Baekhyun, Chen and Xiumin sue SM Entertainment and terminate contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, Gosling was revealed to be the &#8220;<em><strong>dream Ken<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; for Barbie interpreter <strong>Margot Robbie<\/strong>, who is also a producer on the film. Also, when he was first offered the role, he turned it down due to scheduling issues, however, after filming was postponed due to the pandemic, the actor was able to join.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"383\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie1.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ryan-Gosling-opens-up-about-critics-for-being-too-old-for-Ken-in-Barbie-movie1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film about the iconic Matel doll was directed by the renowned <strong>Greta Gerwig<\/strong>, who was nominated for two Oscars for &#8216;<strong>Lady Bird: Time to Fly<\/strong>&#8216; (2017) and &#8216;<strong>Little Women<\/strong>&#8216;. &#8216;Barbie&#8217; will be released in theaters on June 21st of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gosling has given his sincere opinion in a recent interview with GQ magazine about criticism he received on social media when the &#8216;#notmyken&#8217; hashtag gained strength for apparently being too &#8216;old&#8217; to be Ken in the upcoming Warner Bros. film &#8216;Barbie&#8216; live action. &#8220;I would say, you know, if people don&#8217;t want to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":71282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}