Ryan Gosling in “Barbie”.Photo:Warner Bros
Warner Bros
Ryan Goslingis ready to channel Ken at theOscars.
The actor, 43, is set to perform the Oscar-nominatedBarbiesong “I’m Just Ken” at the upcoming 96thAcademy Awardson Sunday, March 10,Varietyreported on Monday.
Though Gosling isn’t nominated for the tune in the Best Original Song category (writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt got the recognition there), he did earn a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing Ken inBarbie.
Ryan Gosling.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
Earlier this month, Gosling toldVarietythat he hadn’t yet been approached to sing at the Oscars.
“It might be too much of a risk to have me do it. I don’t know how that would work. But I’m open to it,” he said at the time. He further joked, “It’s anthemic. So we’ll need a budget.”
Songwriter Ronson jumped at the chance to work with writer-directorGreta Gerwigon the soundtrack forBarbie— buthe didn’t expect “I’m Just Ken” to take on the life that it has.
“There was never any idea in the script that Ryan was going to sing. It was like, maybe there’ll be a song in the credits,” Ronson told PEOPLE. “He’s the tragic No. 2 — I wanted you to feel his pain. We wrote this song, and it was almost like a Beach Boys demo, a ballad. I sent it to Greta, and she really dug it. Then she said, ‘I played this for Ryan. He wants to sing it in the film.’ I was just so gobsmacked.”
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source: people.com
