Ryan Gosling too fat for film role? Actor sets Record Straight about Part that Slipped Away

It's usually actresses who come under fire for piling on pounds.

Now Ryan Gosling, 30, says he can relate, after losing a role he desperately wanted because he was too fat.

The Canadian heartthrob made the shocking claim while promoting his new movie Blue Valentine.

Back to his old self:  A slimmed down Ryan Gosling attends The Governor's Awards with his mother in Hollywood on November 13 

Three years ago director Peter Jackson signed Gosling to play the lead role in The Lovely Bones, but Jackson changed his mind and gave Gosling the sack, after the actor put on too much weight.

 

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor said: 'I was 150 lbs when he hired me and I showed up on set 210 lbs, '  adding: 'We had a different idea of how the character should look.' 

Gosling was replaced by Mark Wahlberg, who took over the role of Jack Salmon, a distraught father whose life falls apart after his young daughter is raped and murdered.

Nice comeback: Ryan has been getting great reviews for his work in Blue Valentine

Gosling said he intentionally bulked up, because he envisioned the character as being overweight: 'I really believed he should be 210 lbs.' 

He says he succeeded in gaining weight by eating ice cream:  'I was melting Haagen Dazs and drinking it when I was thirsty.  I really believed  in it, I was excited about it and I showed up and they said, "You look terrible." '

At the time, the actor who received an Oscar nomination for his role in the gritty drama Half Nelson, believed he could have easily lost the weight.

But admits he and Jackson disagreed so much about the direction of the film, that it was better to leave the project.

'It was a sign of much deeper things, the way I saw the character vs how Peter saw the character,' he continued. 

'It was a huge movie and there were so many things to deal with and he couldn't deal with the actors individually.'

Gosling said it was a bad time in his life: 'I was fat and unemployed.'

Now, thankfully, he's neither.

Then and now: Gosling today compared to how he looked in 2007 at the premiere of Lars and the Real Girl in New York City

Lately, he's been getting rave reviews for Blue Valentine, a sexually charged independent drama co-starring Michelle Williams.

The film, which centres on a contemporary married couple, is said to be so racy that the Motion Picture Association of America slapped it with an NC-17 rating.

That means no children under 17 will be admitted to the film and it often adds up to lower box office receipts.

Still, Gosling has  been getting good reviews.

According to Moving Pictures magazine, he is 'so emotionally vulnerable his heart virtually beats from an open wound in his chest.' 

Although the magazine offers a word of caution about the bleak film: 'It’s exquisitely painful to watch.'

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