Ryan Gosling intended to go full method to play a grieving father in The Lovely Bones, gaining a full 60 pounds for it. The actor felt he was a little too baby faced to realistically play the father of a teenage girl, so he wanted to add some mileage to his frame. His sure-fire way to pile on the pounds was to drink melted Haagen Dazs ice cream when he felt thirsty; a method that was successful beyond his wildest dreams. Why He Was Fired: He probably should have asked director Peter Jackson if the weight gain was a good idea first. When Jackson saw the chubby, bearded actor he freaked out, so after some intense arguments between the two creative disagreements were evoked, and the actor found himself, as he puts it Fat and unemployed. Mark Wahlberg replaced him in the film; which given how the final product turned out, probably worked out better for Gosling.
