Look, we know it's not out yet. Doesn't matter
Spare a thought for Leonardo DiCaprio. He wakes up this morning, shuffles to the kitchen and fumbles with the lid of the Kenco jar. Stirring his coffee, he thumbs through his phone. Something starts playing. As he watches, his stirring slows and stops. He looks over to his Oscar cabinet. There’s an empty space next to his Best Actor statuette forwas meant to fill it. Damn you, Gosling, he thinks. Damn you.
Nope, I’m not even being facetious. Ryan Gosling as Ken opposite Margot Robbie in her peppy, postmoderncould be his defining role. Watch that trailer again. Witness the fringed cowboy shirt as he marches past a doctor to attempt some surgery. Swoon at the smoothness with which he puts on his second pair of sunglasses. Feel the Kenergy.
That moment in the trailer when Ken rocks up at a hospital to do a couple of appendectomies has upset some Ken fans, who take a dim view of the unthinking sexism that Gosling’s Ken indulges in. He’s an empty vessel, not a symbol of dumb misogyny, they point out.
“I was surprised, how some people were kind of clutching their pearls about my Ken, as though they ever thought about Ken for a second before this,” Gosling told Jimmy Fallon. Some people worried he was slumming it. He’s always been the most wryly subversive of Hollywood’s triple-A uber-hunks, always in touch with the indie scene leant into via. While Chris Evans was saving humanity and eating shawarma with the Avengers, Gosling was stomping a guy’s head to bits in a lift in, Gosling did the cult buddy action comedy
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