Ryan Gosling again takes the plunge in ‘Blue Valentine’: I suddenly feel infuriated

He’s played a Jewish neo-Nazi, a crack-addict schoolteacher and a man who falls in love with an inflatable doll. But suggest to Ryan Gosling , an independent-film poster child for the better part of a decade, that he chooses roles for their complexity rather than their commercial appeal and he’ll wave you aside. “When I make these movies, I don’t think, ‘I want to make a little indie movie and I want to stay in the indie world because I think it’s cool,’” says the twinkle-eyed Canadian actor. “I make these movies and think, ‘This is the one.

Facebook Twitter E-mail They’ve been knocking down romance rumors for months now, and he’s been spotted getting close to Blake Lively recently. This one is going to be “The Blair Witch Project.”‘ I’m sure of it while we’re making it. “We read the script, and it just seemed like an exciting, very open-ended project — we really didn’t know how it would go. That’s what inspired us to be a part of it.” Like many Hollywood movies, there were a couple of hiccups along the way. Production was pushed back several times and at some points came to a complete halt.

Gosling puts his arm around Michelle shakes her head “no” with a broad, mysterious grin. Cianfrance uses the dog’s death to draw a line in the relationship sand, narratively ? not at all as clunky as it sounds ? and then goes back in time. (See TIME’s 2010 Holiday Movie Preview.) Their first meeting can be directly attributed to the kindnesses they show to older people. After a long pause, McFadden is not convinced. “We ended up just giving him all the instrumentals from the last two records and let him try as he pleased,” says Rossen (third from top, r.). “I don’t believe that,” she says.