Saoirse Ronan has said she was “sad” when Ryan Gosling was axed from the film The beautiful bones.
The actress ended up starring alongside Mark Wahlberg in the 2009 Peter Jackson-directed film, which followed the character of Ronan, a young girl who was murdered and watches over her family and her killer from purgatory, while her loved ones they struggle to heal. Wahlberg played the role of the grieving father after Gosling was fired.
THE Lady Bird the star recently told host Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that, although she didn't get to film with Gosling at the time, they had “done some prep” before production began. “I think I loved Ryan. And his dog, Georgem and I were sad because, you know, he wouldn't be around,” she said.
However, Ronan thought about the reasons why Barbie The separation between star and director was “totally valid.” He added: “I spoke to both of them [Gosling and Jackson] now and it happens. Do you understand what I mean? It's not personal, necessarily. It's like sometimes you're just not on the same page.”
He continued: “Mark was able to step in and he was a father. He was the father of like, I don't know, three kids? He probably had an experience like that that Ryan felt he hadn't had. Ryan was about 27 years old. He was young.
The boy of autumn the actor has already said The Hollywood journalist in 2010 from which he was fired The beautiful bones because he and Jackson “had a different idea of what the character should look like. I really thought he must weigh 210 lbs.
But the director disagreed and ultimately dropped Gosling just days before production began in 2007.
“We didn't talk much during the preproduction process, and that was the problem,” Gosling explained at the time. “It was a huge film, there were so many things to deal with and he couldn't manage the actors individually. I just showed up on set and I was wrong. Then I was fat and unemployed.”
Ronan later told Horowitz that it was “fantastic” working with Gosling later during the filming of their 2014 film. Lost River. He added: “And, once again, it's just the same. It doesn't change.”