Saoirse Ronan Was ‘Sad’ After Ryan Gosling Fired From The Lovely Bones

Saoirse Ronan mentioned she was “unhappy” when Ryan Gosling was dropped from the film The Pretty Bones.

The actress ended up starring alongside Mark Wahlberg within the Peter Jackson-helmed 2009 movie, which adopted Ronan’s character, a younger lady who was murdered and watches over her household and her killer from purgatory, as her family members wrestle to heal. Wahlberg performed her grieving father after Gosling was fired.

The Girl Fowl star not too long ago instructed host Josh Horowitz on the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast that whereas she didn’t get to movie with Gosling on the time, they’d “executed some prep” previous to manufacturing beginning. “I believe I simply liked Ryan. And his canine, Georgem and I used to be simply unhappy that, you recognize, he wasn’t going to be round,” she mentioned.

Nonetheless, Ronan thought the the reason why the Barbie star and the director parted methods have been “completely legitimate.” She added, “I’ve spoken to each [Gosling and Jackson] now and it occurs. Are you aware what I imply? It’s not private, essentially. It’s like typically you’re simply not on the identical web page.”

She continued: “Mark was capable of step in, and he was a father. He was a father to, like, I don’t know, three youngsters? He most likely had an expertise of that that Ryan felt he didn’t. Ryan was like 27. He was younger.”

The Fall Man actor beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2010 that he was fired from The Pretty Bones as a result of he and Jackson “had a unique thought of how the character ought to look. I actually believed he must be 210 kilos.”

However the director disagreed and finally dropped Gosling simply days earlier than manufacturing started in 2007.

“We didn’t discuss very a lot throughout the preproduction course of, which was the issue,” Gosling defined on the time. “It was an enormous film, and there’s so many issues to cope with, and he couldn’t cope with the actors individually. I simply confirmed up on set, and I had gotten it fallacious. Then I used to be fats and unemployed.”

Ronan later instructed Horowitz that it was “nice” to work with Gosling later whereas filming their 2014 movie Misplaced River. She added, “And, once more, he’s simply, like, the identical. He doesn’t change.”