Ryan Gosling Shares Rare Quotes About Fatherhood, Life With Eva Mendes: ‘It All Makes Sense Now’
31.05.2023 - 15:55
/ usmagazine.com
Everything in its right place. Ryan Gosling offered some rare insight into his life with Eva Mendes and their two daughters — and revealed why he took a four-year break from Hollywood.
The La La Land actor, 42, didn’t appear in any films between 2018 and 2022, in large part because of the 2016 birth of his and Mendes’ second child, daughter Amada, now 7. The couple also share daughter Esmeralda, 8. “I wanted to spend as much time as I could with them,” Gosling explained in a GQ interview published on Wednesday, May 31.
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The Notebook star and the 2 Fast 2 Furious actress, 49, started dating after meeting in 2011 on the set of the The Place Beyond the Pines, which hit theaters the following year. Gosling explained on Wednesday that he hadn’t given much thought to the idea of fatherhood before he met Mendes.
“When you asked me about Eva and kids, I think I said, I didn’t think about kids until she told me she was pregnant. That’s not really true,” the Lost River director told the outlet, referring to a comment he made earlier in the article. “I didn’t want to overshare, but now I also don’t want to misrepresent. I mean, it’s true that I wasn’t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her.”
The Canada native went on to say that making The Place Beyond the Pines — in which he and Mendes played the parents of a young son — helped him understand that he didn’t want their family to “pretend” any longer. “I realized that this would be a life I would be really lucky to have,” he explained, adding, “I was looking for her, you know? … It all makes sense now.”
Mendes and Gosling have kept their children out of