What about hair?' And he says, 'Do whatever you want, kid. Ryan Gosling smoking at the premiere of The Notebook in Los Angeles on June 21, 2004. Born on November 12, 1980, in the same city as Rachel, he was 22 when filming The Notebook. I wouldn’t say The Notebook ranks in my top 5 favorite romantic movies of all time, but it’s. Do what you want, kid.' says, 'Okay, I guess I'll wear contacts. Ryan Gosling, who portrayed poor lumber mill worker Noah Calhoun, turned 23 on November 12, 2003. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams star as Noah and Allie, the main protagonists of this love story. You have brown eyes.' He says, 'Everyone knows Jim Garner's got brown eyes. There's all kinds of South Carolina accents - one's more rural' and this and that. Despite Gosling's best efforts to talk about the character they were both playing (Garner, at a later stage of the character's life), the Oscar nominee refused to acquiesce and spend any more time than necessary prepping for a film destined to be sold in bargain bins by the grocery checkout. SEE MORE: Pippa Middleton: I Have a 'Normal, Sisterly Relationship' with KateĬassavetes also identifies the one person in the world immune to Gosling's charms: his former co-star, James Garner. 'He'd come to me and say, 'Why can't I burn the house down?' I'd say, 'Because I don't even know what that means.' And he'd say, 'Cleansing my fire!'' He wants to go prepare for it, feel it, live it, explore other options for it,' Cassavetes said. ' wants to talk to you about what he's gonna do. Not one to shy away from sharing his ideas, Gosling thought it would be appropriate for Noah to burn down what had become his character's life's work.

''The rest of the film wasn't smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing,' he explains.Īnother amazing tidbit: that Ryan Gosling wanted to torch his character's dream house, which he had painstakingly restored in the film: Instead of complying with Gosling, Cassavetes tells VH1 how he forced the two into a room together to scream and yell it out together. SEE MORE: 17 Real-Life Couples and Their On-Screen Chemistry I'm just not getting anything from this.'' And Ryan came to me, and there's 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, 'Nick come here.' And he's doing a scene with Rachel and he says, 'Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?' I said, 'What?' He says, 'I can't. 'hey were really not getting along one day on set.

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