Ryan Gosling

The Russo brothers go big again with 'The Gray Man,' a spy-vs-spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.

Speaking of Bond: Gray Man certainly wants to compete with him and Ethan Hunt in terms of globe-trotting action, novel locations and wild set pieces; it’s a very expensive ambition that doesn’t always pay off. (A later hand-to-hand fight sequence, featuring the Indian multihyphenate Dhanush, is similarly valuable, though it ends very implausibly.) Knowing Six now has the drive, Carmichael paints him as a rogue and sends all his spies off to kill him. Working out of a French castle set on 19,000 acres, he’s a torture-happy ham with an infinite budget and no scruples. His assignment, one of the most ridiculously contrived in the history of hitman flicks, involves using a rifle the size of a jackhammer to shoot up through the ceiling at a man two floors above him — a target who just seconds ago was walking around in the open. Gosling plays Court Gentry, who was in prison for murder when the C.I.A.’s Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) recruited him as a black-ops assassin.

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He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.” (At one point in “The Gray Man” he’s referred to as a “Ken doll,” an undisguised reference to his role in the upcoming “Barbie” movie.) Sometimes Gosling can make that restraint work for a character, like his emotionally tamped-down Neil Armstrong in “First Man” (2018), which happens to be the last movie he appeared in before this one. A computer drive full of highly incriminating data goes missing, historic European landmarks are treated like cannon fodder, and people snarl things like “If you like breathing, you might want to fix this.” Page and Henwick are particularly wasted in some of the most tedious Langley office drama in recent memory. The latest of those jobs finds Six in Bangkok, where he teams up with another operative, Dani (Ana de Armas, basically extending her “No Time to Die” cameo), to take out a high-priority target. I have no idea whether that particular torture scene comes from the source material, not having read “The Gray Man” or any other novels in the series by Mark Greaney, a protégé of the late Tom Clancy. I also don’t know whose idea it was to throw a screaming teenager with a heart condition repeatedly into harm’s way — a choice that might have felt more defensible in a movie that didn’t expect us to chortle merrily at every fresh burst of mayhem. “The Gray Man” was directed by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, though it’s such a synthetic, soulless bundle of goods that it barely feels touched by human hands. He gives us another one of those ciphers in the new Netflix espionage thriller “The Gray Man,” which is the first movie to make me consider watching “Only God Forgives” again, perhaps to offer or even seek my own forgiveness.

The Russo brothers evoke Bond and Bourne with the familiar story of a US government assassin forced to go it alone.

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There’s a comic side to his performance, although few spectators will find it funny when he starts ripping out the fingernails of one of his antagonists. Whether he is caught in mid-air without a parachute or handcuffed to a city centre bench as armies of antagonists attack him with machine guns and bazookas, he never loses his poise or balletic grace. The twist here is that the hunter soon becomes the hunted: he learns from encrypted messages hidden in a locket that one of his bosses is corrupt. A little strangely, there is no explicit romance – Six is far too busy trying to stay alive to have time for candlelit dinners. These take place in a far wider, more exotic range of locations than you will find in the average Bond movie. The Gray Man will be on Netflix in a week’s time but it’s worth watching on the biggest screen possible first.

Gosling just can't stop talking about his "Ken-ergy"

And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is.” A true Ken-undrum, one might say. It’s not what you expect,” he allowed. “I have that Ken-ergy that he can feel, obviously,” Gosling shares, referencing Evans’ insult that his Gray Man character is a “Ken doll” in another interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive.” What is Ken-ergy, you may ask? “I can’t wait for people to see the film. “It’s not what you think it is, unless it is. “You have a Ken in your life, and you know that Ken has Ken-ergy.” Okay, sure!

Ryan Gosling teased that his "Barbie" character Ken is "going through some stuff" in the upcoming comedy, directed by Greta Gerwig.

For all the details on “Barbie,” click here. Gosling added, “I can’t wait for people to see the film. “And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is.

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With a fundamentally appealing, well-cast hero at its core and a commitment to eye-catching and expensively executed thrills, The Gray Man does more than enough to pave the way for future instalments. The film delights in the chaos and destruction as a bounty is put on Six’s head and assassins rain down upon him John Wick-style (it really does a number on Prague in particular). It also owes a significant debt to the Bond series, which is explicitly acknowledged when Six jokes about the number 007 already being taken. Casting off Captain America’s righteousness with glee, Evans is clearly enjoying himself as he builds on the deranged levels of entitlement he displayed in Knives Out, and does so whilst sporting a real talking point of a moustache. The titular enigma is Gosling’s Court Gentry, aka “Six”, a convicted-killer-turned-ace-CIA-assassin, recruited as part of the top-secret Sierra programme by handler Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), who has come to view him with avuncular affection. But with Six trained to be a ghost, he proves a very slippery customer indeed. Whilst it might only have a limited cinematic run before hitting the small screen, The Gray Man boasts the kind of spectacular action and globe-hopping pursuits more commonly associated with the theatrical experience.

'It felt nice to see everyone else start having as much fun as we are,' Ryan Gosling tells PEOPLE of online reactions to 'Barbie' movie photos.

I can't wait for the film to come out and for that to continue." It's very inclusive and I think because the brothers are brothers, it's just inherently collaborative. It gave me no other choice."

While talking about the Greta Gerwig film 'Barbie' starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling also opened up about the new action thriller called 'The Gray Man'.

Gosling claimed that the entire crew was responsible for the creation of a traditional hero: “What I didn’t realise was just how many people it takes to make an action hero.” But we had an incredible stunt team, and an incredible special effects team.” Ryan Gosling has been generating a lot of buzz after his picture from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was released online.

I hope this starts a Ken-ergy movement,” the Oscar nominee teased at the premiere of his new film, The Gray Man. “The Ken-ergy is going to be alive and well ...

He had a lot of fun playing it, and I had a lot of fun playing against it,” Gosling said. I was so happy that I waited for this opportunity, because this was like the films I grew up with,” Gosling said on the arrivals carpet. “I’ve waited my whole life to look like this,” he teased. “A lot of the funniest lines in the film that come out of Ryan’s mouth were improvs from Ryan.” When asked about his natural ability to spit out playful punch lines, Gosling immediately quipped, “I get my sense of humor from Sears. It was on sale.” After a long four-year absence, Ryan Gosling returns to the big screen as a Black Ops assassin in The Gray Man, reportedly Netflix’s most expensive movie to date. “The Gray Man is different from anything I’ve done before.

Ryan Gosling has finally teased information on his role as Ken in the upcoming live-action Barbie movie with Margot Robbie.

When pushed further on what exactly ‘Ken-ergy’ means, La La Land star Ryan kept it vague but offered: ‘You’ve got a Ken in your life. I felt seen,’ he recalled. I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive,’ he proclaimed. The has starred in a host of top-billed films including The Notebook, Drive and La La Land, which landed him his Oscar nomination for best actor – but Ken might be his biggest role to date, judging by keen interest in the film. He then finally gave us a little something, with a surprising revelation about his version of the doll in the movie. In a comment sure to delight fans, who melted the internet when first-look images of him as Ken were released in June, showing him in an abs-bearing unbuttoned denim jacket and personalised underwear, the star also said he had ‘Ken-enrgy’.

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It also has something thematically to say about trust and family and succeeds on all counts, not least because of a very smart script with a lot of pithy dialogue for Gosling and Evans in particular. Everyone in this thing seems to come with a personality that is shades of gray, hence the chosen color of the title that describes this profession as full of people with uh, complications. Right from the opening the Russos show that this is going to be a whiz-bang nonstop summer ride, an action film that wants to play with the best of them and delivers one thrilling set piece after another, hoping to set the genre on fire. They also work with Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas), who on the other hand is one who seems to have 6’s better interests in mind and has his back. The teaming of Gosling and Evans plus a superior supporting cast make this one of the Russo Brothers’ best flicks, an entertaining ride that is full of chases, fights and explosions but, more importantly, strong character development and a script that actually is far wittier than it has any right to be. As part of the operation there is his CIA partner Suzanne Brewer (a fine Jessica Henwick), who proves she can be just as lethal in getting what she wants.

Ryan Gosling complements his yellow shirt and green Gucci suit at 'The Gray Man' premiere with Ana de Armas and Chris Evans.

According to Deadline, it is the most expensive movie ever made by Netflix, with a budget of $200 million. He’s like an analog hero in a digital world. “He’s not under any romantic ideas of what it’s like to be a spy, you know?

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While one can only speculate what is to come, Gosling’s comments are in line with what Robbie revealed to British Vogue in an August 2021 interview, she said, “Barbie comes with a lot of baggage! Barbie was first set up at Sony with Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway, attached to lead at different points however, WB picked it up in 2018, where Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach came on board to pen the screenplay. His perfect white-blond hair, wearing ‘80s-style bare-chested denim vest and jeans, the look was completed with the spray tan and custom boxers with Ken written on it screamed ‘camp’ for many and rightfully so.

Unlike Pete Davidson's haunting 2019 Ken doll photo shoot, Gosling as Ken made sense. Apparently, he agrees. Talking with Variety about his role in the upcoming ...

As Gosling would say, welcome to the “Ken-aissance.” When the photos of Ryan Gosling as Ken first dropped, it was hard to deny that something about it felt right. “I felt like I was seeing myself.

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“This has been coming my whole life.” In every image and video we’ve seen so far, Gosling is serving plastic perfection realness as Barbie’s boyfriend. I’m proud of that.”

Ryan Gosling shares his excitement about working with Derek Cianfrance again on the upcoming Universal monster movie Wolfman.

We've always kind of made the metaphorical version of it, and it's sort of like the opportunity to really, to just make the literal version of what we've been hacking away at. Since the Wolfman was announced, there have been a number of directors and writers attached to the project, including Cory Finley and Leigh Whannell, but ultimately Cianfrance is the perfect choice for the project. I just would do anything with Derek, but the idea of doing something like that just seems really exciting.

Critics are split on the Netflix spy thriller, which looks and feels expensive and benefits from the charms of its big-name leads, but feels like a bit less ...

–Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Network –Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Network –Molly Freeman, Screen Rant There is some unfinished business to attend to once the credits roll, which will most likely lead to a sequel. –Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior It was especially fun to see it in a packed theater, where the crowd clearly ate it up… This is a waste of the white-hot star of the moment. –Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior She seems born to lead action movies and might be the next big female action star. –Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson –Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson Gosling’s never done a major action movie on this level…

Ryan Gosling wore a mint-green suit to the premiere of Netflix's The Gray Man on July 13. The colourful getup was designed by Gucci's Alessandro Michele.

BRIAN VINER: We first meet Gosling's wise-cracking title character in a Florida jail, where he is serving a long sentence for murder.

It transpires that his paymasters are not the paragons of morality that we all (that is to say, none of us) thought the CIA were. He is revered these days as a wise elder statesman of tennis, yet charm is in just as short supply as it ever was. All that said, there is one stark difference between this and Bond. There’s not a hint of carnality in this movie. But another Netflix release, Persuasion, is clueless in all the wrong ways. Well, Dakota Johnson as Anne, forever pinging arch glances at the camera, looks as wan and sorrowful as an Instagram influencer. The Russos and their screenwriters, adapting Mark Greaney’s novel, have sufficient fun with all this for at least some of it to rub off on the audience. ‘He is a strange bird.’ The answer is yes. Accordingly, The Gray Man is the most expensive Netflix film ever made, with a budget of around $200million. Happily it shows, with some stunts that are as thrillingly extravagant as they are implausibly silly. We first meet Gosling’s wise-cracking title character in a Florida jail, where he is serving a long sentence for murder. The story resumes 20 years later. The Bond producers might have to raise their game.