Maybe this is why Ryan Gosling didn’t show up for the All Good Things premiere? Eh. Gosling took part in a round-table discussion of potential Oscar nominees, sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Tonight. ET excerpted the part of the discussion where Gosling talked in great detail about his firing/withdrawal from The Lovely Bones, an incident which happened a few years ago. Gosling was one of the first ones cast for the project – he was supposed to play the father of the murdered girl, in the film adaptation directed by Peter Jackson. Gosling describes how he was just flat out wrong about the character, thinking that the father should be much, much heavier:

Ryan Gosling said he was “fat and unemployed” after showing up on set of ‘The Lovely Bones’ 60 pounds bigger.

During a round table conversation put on by The Hollywood Reporter that included a number of other Oscar Award hopefuls, Ryan said he and ‘The Lovely Bones’ director Peter Jackson had “wildly different” ideas as to what the character of Jack Salmon (that was eventually played by Mark Wahlberg) was to look and act like. “I was 150 pounds when he hired me, and I showed up on set 210 pounds,” he disclosed.

“I really believed [the character] should be 210 pounds. I was melting Haagen Dazs and drinking it when I was thirsty,” he admitted. “I really believed in it. I was excited about it.”

Ryan said when he got on set, he was asked to hit the treadmill. “I just showed up on set and I’d gotten it wrong. … It didn’t ever become about the weight because the weight was just indicative of a deeper misunderstanding about the character.”

The actor seems to have bounced back from the “misunderstanding” as his role in ‘Blue Valentine’ is getting a bit of Oscar buzz.

[From Entertainment Tonight]

Melting Haagen Dazs? Sweet Jesus. Why does that sound so good to me right now? Oh, right, I’m sick. I want to take baths in ice cream and egg drop soup (in no particular order). CB also showed me this – Jared Leto did the same drinking-ice-cream thing when he was trying to gain weight.

You know what’s weird? I read the book, and in no way is the father supposed to be a heavy man. He’s also not supposed to be blonde – he’s black Irish, if I remember correctly, and he’s supposed to be a good-looking man. Maybe Mark Wahlberg was the right choice. Here’s the video from the round-table discussion:

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