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| Posted: Ryan Gosling on what it was like going to The Place Beyond The Pines. It got a little out of control," Ryan Gosling says about the abundant tattooage he's sporting in The Place Beyond The Pines. A top hat, a Bible, an owl, twin boxers, a snake, a three-masted schooner, letters on his knuckles: H-A-N-D on one hand, S-O-M-E on the other. And on his face, just beneath his left eye, a dagger with a drop of blood. "The idea was to create this portrait of someone that was basically like a melting pot of masculine cliches," says the actor, whose character, Luke, is a stunt motorcyclist in a travelling carnival. He rolls into Schenectady, New York, and discovers that he's fathered a child with a diner waitress (Eva Mendes) he'd met the previous year, and then decides he's going to be a real dad, settle down, raise the kid. Which requires money. Which requires robbing banks. "Tattoos, motorcycles, muscles, knives, guns – he's this surface idea of what a man is," Gosling explains. "And then, when he's presented with his child, it's like a mirror is held up to him, and he realises that he's not a man at all." The Place Beyond The Pines, an epic undertaking in three parts – Bradley Cooper takes the baton from Gosling for the middle section – is directed by Derek Cianfrance, who guided Gosling and Michelle Williams through the romantic crash-up Blue Valentine. In Pines, Gosling, his hair peroxide blonde, rides a motorcycle like a demon. He trained with Rick Miller, the Hollywood stunt cyclist. "He's the best motorcycle man in the business," the actor says. "You know, when Batman rides a motorcycle, it's Rick Miller in the suit." But when Luke rides a motorcycle in Pines, it's Gosling in the torn T-shirt and jeans. One drive-up/stick-up/getaway sequence was filmed 22 times, with Gosling revving his custom machine down main streets and back alleys, weaving between trucks and cars. "Derek has very unrealistic expectations of what is humanly possible," Gosling, on the phone from New York, says with a laugh. "He thought, 'Oh, we'll shoot these bank robberies in one take.' Which I guess sounds easy, but then you realise that that means that someone is going to have to ride a motorcycle for four blocks, pull up in front of the bank, get off, run inside, rob the bank, come out and then have an effective getaway with all these elaborately choreographed near-misses with oncoming traffic – all in one seven-minute take. "It's amazing, because when you watch the film, it just feels like you're watching Cops. ... And yet, the work that Derek had to put in in order to make it feel that effortless was just so extreme ... "To me, this film is like the directorial equivalent of robbing a bank." Gosling, 32, has been performing for the better part of his life – Disney's Mickey Mouse Club when he was 12, Goosebumps and Young Hercules when he was a teen, and then, in his early 20s, a complete 180° – a jolting turn as an Orthodox Jew turned neo-Nazi in True Believer. The megahit, mega-mush romance The Notebook followed – Gosling and fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams tapping the sap like maple trees. And then Half Nelson, in which he played a blazing-smart and blazingly messed-up junior high history teacher and crackhead. That one got him a Best Actor Oscar nomination. In Lars And The Real Girl, he's got the title role – a guy who falls in love with a life-size sex doll. Since making The Place Beyond The Pines, Gosling has re-teamed with his Driver director, Nicolas Winding Refn, for a Thai boxing crime pic, Only God Forgives. There's also an untitled Terrence Malick project that Gosling shot with the suddenly prolific Texas auteur. Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara also star. – The Philadelphia Inquirer/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
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