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Warner Bros. has released the first image of Ryan Gosling as Ken in their new Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie.

What director Greta Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach have in store is anyone’s guess. Barbie recently received a summer 2023 release date, which, while stacking it up as a possible summer blockbuster, also puts it up against Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer — and what a pair that’s set to make. It’s Barbie’s world, and we’re just living in it — Ryan Gosling included.

Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled the first look photo of Ryan Gosling in the upcoming "Barbie" movie opposite Margot Robbie. The film debuts in 2023.

Gosling's image as Ken is the second released by Warner Bros. Pictures. In April, the movie giant shared the first look picture of Robbie, in Barbie's signature convertible. I really think you should do it,'" he shared. Little is known about the plot of the Greta Gerwig and Robbie film, but the "Shang-Chi" actor promised it will be "wild."

Gosling will play the tanned, toned and plastic boyfriend of Margot Robbie's Barbie. It's the first official image of Gosling as the character made famous ...

The sizable cast adds to the mystery of what the film could possibly be about -- it includes comedians Will Ken prove to his beloved Barb that there's more to him than an absurd amount of abdominal muscles? Based on the photo, Gosling's transformed into the quintessential Ken: His skin is tinted orange, and he's showing off an eight-pack of abs and bleached-blond hair.

While some netizens drooled over his abs, others said he did not look the part. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The movie, due out in July 2023, is written and directed by Greta Gerwig, who has been nominated twice for Best Picture at the Oscars for coming-of-age movie Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), a film adaptation of the classic novel. I'm gonna have some soda." A first look at Robbie's Barbie character was unveiled in April, in which the Australian star, 31, is dressed in a halter-neck top with a hairband in her signature long blonde hair to play the famous plastic doll.

The forthcoming movie directed by Greta Gerwig (previously Ladybird and Little Women) will see Gosling play the iconic fashion-forward doll Ken. Gosling is ...

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Warner Bros shared a photo of the actor sporting a blond hairdo, a deep tan and very muscular abs. Life in plastic is fantastic, indeed.

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Warner Bros has revealed another sneak peek at the upcoming Barbie movie — this time of Ryan Gosling as the title character's boyfriend Ken.

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In the world of Mattel's Barbie dolls, Ken is Barbie's tanned, toned and plastic boyfriend. What all we know about Barbie. Ryan Gosling rocks as Ken. Ken Image ...

Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film is set to release on 21 July 2023. In a 2019 press release, she had underlined the contribution of Barbie dolls in empowering children. She added, “Over the brand’s almost 60 years, Barbie has empowered kids to imagine themselves in aspirational roles from a princess to president.

And Margot Robbie in the lead role is just as perfect. So what other Hollywood A-listers could we tee up for the next toy-franchise adaptation?

The casting is so perfect, in fact, that this might necessitate a rethink when it comes to movie adaptations of toy franchises. As such it only seems fair that a Sindy movie should star Robbie after a botched round of cosmetic surgery and several catastrophic dental procedures. There was an attempt in 2007 to make a Bratz movie, but the film failed for all manner of reasons, not least because the stars weren’t (and still aren’t) famous enough. Her Barbie looks like a version of Robbie’s Sharon Tate, or Robbie’s character from The Wolf of Wall Street. The casting is perfect. And then there’s Ryan Gosling. Gosling will play Ken in Barbie and, again, it’s a role he was born to play. Although that was already the consensus, given that it’ll be directed by Greta Gerwig from a script she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach, the photos of the two leads put it beyond all doubt.

Re-posting a photo of longtime partner Ryan Gosling as Ken, Eva Mendes raved that his upcoming Barbie flick is 'So. F. Funny' and 'So. F. Good'

Robbie wore a beaded bracelet and had her blonde hair done in a straight style evocative of the classic American doll. "I think that there's a really nice balance to 'You cook, I clean.' And it just works for us." "Ryan's the cook. And to top it all off, a pair of white boxers stitched with "KEN" can be seen peeking out from above his jeans' waistline. As part of CinemaCon held in Las Vegas in April, Warner Bros. Pictures shared a first-look image of Robbie, 31, in the role of the iconic Mattel doll, along with a release date for the film: July 21, 2023. In the image, Gosling, 41, sports platinum locks (and a killer six-pack!) as he poses in all light-wash denim, including an open vest and matching jeans, in front of a hot-pink backdrop.

On June 15, Warner Bros. dropped the first image of Ryan Gosling in the upcoming "Barbie" movie. The internet has thoughts.

Reactions to the tweet were mixed. Twitter content However, after 24 hours, the conversation has evolved from keyboard smashing to a hilarious comparison between Gosling and another bleached blonde heartthrob that came before him.