He also talks about his career to date, why receiving a compliment from Brad Pitt is amazing to him, and why he’s working with Blue Valentine‘s Derek Cianfrance again (in a film that will give Bradley Cooper fans a big surprise).
Q. What can you tell about your character Stephen Myers, that young idealist campaign strategist working for a democrat governor hoping to gain the nomination of his party in the next presidential race?
Ryan Gosling: I think he is well intended and wants to affect the changes in the country and he is faced with that moral dilemma with his candidate [played by George Clooney ], and so he does the dishonourable thing, which is to jump ship so he can eventually get into the White House and affect change. He severs his heart from his brain at a certain point and struggles and fails to connect.
Q. How toxic do you think it is to be involved in politics and power?
Ryan Gosling: Pretty toxic even though I was not that involved in the world itself. Just the filming. The thing I like about the film is that it’s set in this political world but you don’t really need to know much about politics in order to enjoy it. It could be set in Hollywood or on Wall Street for that matter.
Q. Do you see a parallel in the movie with Hollywood? Is it hard to keep ones integrity through the process and to make it?
Ryan Gosling: I think it’s very hard to be honest for the jobs. You can’t really tell the truth because everything you say is cut off, taken out of context. You have to be careful about what you say. So, I related in the character in that way.
Q. Did you ask George why he chose you?
Ryan Gosling: Well, he said he chose me because everyone else said no! No one else was available! But that’s fine with me.
Q. Did you see his previous films as a director?
Ryan Gosling: Yes and I loved them. It’s interesting: I was on a plane right before I went to do The Ides of March. In the classics category for movies on the little screen in the seat, there were five: 2001, Citizen Kane, Good Night, and Good Luck and 2 others. And I thought whoa. With only having made three others, he’s made an impact. More than anything I love his television shows. Unscripted was incredible… the style and originality. Very experimental. So strange. And K Street is one of my favourites.
Q. Describe George Clooney as a director…
Ryan Gosling: Well, he’s very specific and he knows exactly what he wants. There are not a lot of ambiguity in his decisions and directions.
Q. How different is it to be directed by a director who is also an actor?
Ryan Gosling: It did not feel that different. When he was directing, he was able to kind of compartmentalize to a degree which was interesting. But he was doing so much you know. It’s his project. He co-wrote it, directed it, produced it, and starred in it. At the same time he is checking the situation in Darfur on his cell phones. And he has 20… at least 10 practical jokes in the works at all time. Multi-tasking you know!
Q. George’s inspiration was some of the iconic seventies films like Network, The Candidate or All The President’s Men. Did he ask you to watch those or others to get a feel of what he wanted?
Ryan Gosling: Actually, he didn’t. He had us watch a lot of documentaries not those films. He didn’t specifically ask although he referenced them a lot while we were making it. I guess he just assumed we had seen them and did not want to live in a world where we hadn’t!
Q. He is famous for playing pranks. How did you deal with it? Did you have to be on the alert all the time?
Ryan Gosling: Yes, you do have to be on the alert all the time.
Q. Did he get you?
Ryan Gosling: Yes, he did.
Q. Did you get him back?
Ryan Gosling: No. It’s impossible.
Q. What do you think the reaction for the public and political world to Ides of March will be?
Ryan Gosling: I have no idea. I don’t think George was making a political statement or that the movie has a political message but I do think he was interested in starting a dialogue. And it will be interesting to see what that dialogue is.
Q. What does the poster represent for you? Those two faces, yours and George’s characters kind of blending…maybe means that in the end, it doesn’t really matter who is the president?
Ryan Gosling: No, it says that George Clooney is trying to show how much better looking he is! My mother saw that and called me. She was so excited and said: “You are on the cover of Time magazine”! But I told her it was just the poster for the movie!
Q. Do you trust the press?
Ryan Gosling: Huh… No.
Q. How different is it for you as an actor to play a silent type character like in Drive, compared with Ides of March where you have so much dialogues? What do you like more as an actor?
Ryan Gosling: They were different experiences and each offered something different. A kind of balance. I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less. It’s nice to have space in the film and the silence. So, it’s much rarer to be able to work that way. I enjoyed it.
Q. How was it working with Nicholas on Drive?
Ryan Gosling: We are just wildly different guys but I think we share a brain. I’ll have an idea and he’ll have the exact same idea. When we first met, I had the feeling that the film should be about driving and not about driving fast but just the actual experience of driving, sitting in your car listening to music. The first thing he said to me was that this movie should be about a guy driving around in a car around listening to music. The only way he knows how to feel and I thought how can I be so different from this person and at the same time we are sharing the same dream? Right now we are trying to exploit that
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