Ryan Gosling gives a great interview in the November 2010 issue of Interview Magazine.
(Not to mention the 29-year-old actor looks so damn hot in the accompanying photo shoot).
Gosling was interviewed by Steve Carell for the article. The two costar in the upcoming comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Ch-check out my favourite excerpts from the interview below, then click on over here for the rest.
ON GROWING UP IN CORNWALL, ONT.:
"I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because—well, at least where I grew up—it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system. So it’s a great place to be from, although, when I was 8, I was walking to school one day and I saw a frozen cat by the side of the road, and I picked it up and hit it against a tree . . . It was frozen solid, almost mid-step. So I thought, 'This isn’t right. I’m moving to California as soon as I can drive.' And that’s what I did."
ON HIS CAREER TRAJECTORY:
"Well, it feels like not that long ago that I was on a TV show called Young Hercules in which I had a fake tan and wore tight leather pants and fought imaginary monsters . . . But then I got back from doing that show and did a movie called The Believer, which is the film that kind of gift-wrapped for me the career that I have now. I suddenly found myself at Sundance, where people were asking me about my craft. So I had to pretend I had one."
ON BEING MISTAKEN FOR RYAN REYNOLDS:
"I get that a lot—and I do think it’s because we’re both Canadian. I can’t tell you how many times people go, 'Are you Ryan?' And I go, 'Yeah.' And they say, 'Can I get a picture?' Then they take the picture and realize, in that moment, that I’m not Ryan Reynolds. I can see the disappointment in their faces."