Ryan Gosling Was Fired From ‘Lovely Bones’ After Gaining 60 Pounds. Peter Jackson Now Speaks Out

Jackson:

>“I won’t talk about any particular examples of actors because it’s a personal, private thing and it’s not their fault. Anytime we recast an actor, it’s actually our fault because we didn’t get the casting right and we cast the wrong person for a role. It’s not because they did anything wrong. So, I’m not going to talk about individuals, but you just got to realize that what you were imagining isn’t really quite happening, which means that we got it wrong and so we take full responsibility.”

>“Ryan is a fantastic actor, as we know. Films are a chemistry both on camera and behind the camera, They’re chemistry in terms of what the actor conveys to the audience of the film. It’s just a complicated sort of amalgam of communication of how somebody gels into a group of people, into a story, into a character. It’s complicated and usually you try very hard when you’re planning the film, casting it, trying to get that gel kind of right, but occasionally we make our own mistakes.”

This does seem like an obvious one Ryan

Before you gain 60 pounds for a job, double check you were supposed to do that.

I’m still in awe of the fact they somehow got the phrase ‘the lovely bones’ into the dialogue of the actual film

The movie was very forgettable compared to the impact the book had on me.

Fat man fires a man for getting fat

He actually read the book. So he got fired.

I remember back in high school we watched Lovely Bones. You can imagine how a classroom full of young teenagers reacted to it.

It was joked about for the remainder of high school in our friend group.

I love that he put on all that weight and Peter Jackson just went, “Why did you do this?”

This reminds me of the time I got hired at McDonald’s and the weekend before my first day I got a huge full sleeve tattoo of Grimace, Ronald McDonald, Mayor McCheese, the Hamburglar, and the McNugget Buddies.

He’s the best!

Glanced at the thumbnail and first thought the second pic was Ryan after the sixty pounds.

Sorry Peter.

So weird he was hired in the first place — he wasn’t old enough to be a teen girls father at the time and there’s an 11 year age difference between him and Rachel Weisz, who would have been playing his wife

Ryan’s told this story before in interviews. Says he was melting ice cream and drinking it to gain all the weight because of how the character is described in the novel. It’s pretty funny the way he tells it.

You can take Ryan out of Ontario but can’t take Ontario out of Ryan

Is this a safe space to say that King Kong 2005 is very well shot but is hard to revisit because its over abundance of… everything… like its a movie with no self restraint so way too many of the action scenes go on way to long and this is also the problem with the final LOTR movie but at least that didn’t have King Kong and Dinosaurs playing on the swings. Like my mom and my sister and my sisters friend and her mom and me all piling into the car after my friends birthday party to see King Kong is etched into my brain as a core memory but its like… really boring as an adult.

Reading the article, seems Gosling had a different idea from Jackson of how the character should look which stemmed from a lack of communication from Jackson which Jackson admits fault for. Unfortunate.

I mean the whole movie missed the point. Changing actor on the dad didn’t have that big an effect. 

Not seen the film since it came out, was it necessary for his character to be in shape? Feel like the marketing also didn’t make much of a deal outside of the daughter and nonce from what I remember so casting of a overweight person shouldn’t be a danger to box office numbers either.

“Speaking to THR in 2010, Gosling said “we had a different idea of how the character should look. I really believed he should be 210 pounds. We didn’t talk very much during the preproduction process, which was the problem.”

Ryan basically said it was his fault

If Mark Wahlberg was going to be let go, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood on set and then him saying “Ok we’re going to film somewhere safely, don’t worry.”

> “The Lonely Bones”

Name of your last sex tape