Ryan Gosling Reveals When He Realized Eva Mendes Was The One

Ryan Gosling one film has to thank for leading him to fatherhood.

Actor told GQ in an interview posted on Wednesday that everything changed when he met Eva Mendes during filming Derek CianfranceCrime drama 2012 “The place Beyond the Pines“.

“It’s true that I didn’t think about children before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have children without her,” Gosling said of Mendes, who is now his longtime partner.

“And there were moments in The Place Beyond the Pines where we pretended to be a family and I really didn’t want it to be pretended anymore,” he continued. “I realized that this would be a life where I would be very lucky.”

Pair who may or may not be marriedhas two young children.

Gosling, a former child actor who rose to fame in films such as 2004’s The Notebook and 2011’s Drive, said he would “never want to go back” to his pre-children life. “I’m glad I wasn’t in control of my destiny in this way because it was so much better than I ever dreamed for myself,” he told GQ.

Evan Mendes and Ryan Gosling are a private couple who only appeared on the red carpet together once, in 2012's The Place Beyond the Pines.
Evan Mendes and Ryan Gosling are a private couple who only appeared on the red carpet together once, in 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines.

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Gosling was at the top of his game with an Oscar nomination in 2016.La La Landand starring in Neil Armstrong’s 2018 biopic First Man as he began a four-year absence from Hollywood. He has since returned with more popular projects such as “gray manupcoming Barbie movie.

The actor told GQ he put his career on hold when Mendes had their second daughter and “wanted to spend as much time with them as possible.”

He even chose his recent role in The Gray Man in part because it allowed him to bring his family with him, he told Heat magazine last year. according to the Daily Mail.

“You know, it’s funny, we went to France and everywhere – we went to the Louvre and all that,” he said in a 2022 interview. “And if I asked them now:“ What did you like most about France? They will say: “Fruit plate in the hotel.”