9 Actors Who Were Cut Out Of Movies For Ridiculous Reasons
3. Ryan Gosling Got Fat - The Lovely Bones
When it comes down to it, Ryan Gosling was dropped from Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones adaptation for drinking a gallon or two of melted ice cream bars.
That doesn't sound like such a heinous crime on the surface, but the extra 60 pounds he put on was enough, in Jackson's eyes, to ditch him in favour of Mark Wahlberg.
There was method to Gosling's ice cream-guzzling madness. Apparently, he felt he was too youthful for the role of father figure Jack Salmon, so he intentionally piled on the pounds in the hope it would make him look older.
Jackson obviously felt it just made him look podgier and dismissed him, so he essentially gained weight for nothing; not that it's done his career any harm since.