10 Actors About To Give Their Most Insane Performance EVER

7. Ryan Gosling - Barbie

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Ryan Gosling is one of those truly enviable performers who excels as both a comedic and dramatic actor: he can crack you up bro-ing out in The Nice Guys or bring enticing stoicism to a role like Neil Armstrong in First Man.

But he'll be going to a whole other realm entirely for his next role, playing Ken in Greta Gerwig's upcoming Barbie film.

The marketing has made it abundantly clear that Gerwig's movie will be a thoroughly tongue-in-cheek satire of Mattel's iconic fashion dolls, and is it possible to picture a more note-perfect actor to play Ken than Gosling?

Though we've not seen much officially from the movie yet, the hyper-stylised visuals and abundance of costume changes indicated by set photos suggest we're about to witness a side of Gosling we've never seen before.

Playing opposite a similarly perfectly cast Margot Robbie as Barbie, if Gerwig's film lives up to its playfully subversive potential this could end up being both Gosling's most insane and best performance ever.

 
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