Ryan Gosling on Malick, directing again and that Oscar flub

Ryan Gosling on Malick, directing again and that Oscar flub

NEW YORK (AP) — Even amid the chaotic melee on the Dolby Theatre stage during the infamous best-picture Oscar flub, Ryan Gosling was typically unflappable.

[...] making Terrence Malick's largely improvised "Song to Song," the 36-year-old actor grants, was like working "without a net."

Gosling stars in the film, which expands in theaters this weekend, alongside Michael Fassbender and Rooney Mara.

"Song to Song" is a careening kaleidoscope of light and love, wandering between the everyday and the transcendent.

Gosling is currently readying for another film with "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle, in which he'll play astronaut Neil Armstrong.

[...] he stars in this fall's sci-fi sequel "Blade Runner 2049."

The idea was that he wanted to try to cause what he called "collisions" between a narrative film and this music scene in Austin, to take these scenes into real environments that you couldn't control and see what happened.

What was the atmosphere like while shooting in Austin during a festival?

To try to keep them from looking into the camera, to try to make them address me as not an actor but as a fellow concertgoer or whatever the situation required.

Fassbender's chimpanzee impression on the Mexican beach was impressive.