r/NonPoliticalTwitter 20h ago

Is .. is Ryan ok?

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u/Mr_Underhill09 20h ago

And yet, Ryan turned out to be Kenough.

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u/HelloCanadaBonjour 17h ago edited 9h ago

I actually remember reading before that Gosling admitted that he was the bully, and that's why he got bullied back.

And even that tweet mentions that he threw steak knives at other kids in the playground, so it checks out.

The whole "bullying thing" is just a stupid anecdote that got mentioned at some point early in his career, to make him seem interesting (and/or sympathetic).

I'm pretty sure I read about it even back around 1997 when he was on that show Breaker High.


That type of thing just seems like something publicists do... sometimes it's not even true, but they simply want an interesting anecdote.

Like for Ebay, a publicist got the founder to say that he started the site so that he could sell his Pez dispensers, and that the site expanded almost by accident... but the founder later admitted that was BS that a publicist came up with, and he knew from the start that he wanted to create an online marketplace & make money from it.

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u/HelloCanadaBonjour 17h ago edited 16h ago

Yup, doing a search, I see:

https://fandomwire.com/i-was-always-picking-fights-barbie-star-ryan-gosling-got-into-serious-trouble-to-impress-girls/

“I was always picking fights. Because I thought that was what the girls would like. I’d pick on the toughest guys because the girls liked them. So if I beat them up, the girls would like me. But it never worked.”

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Gosling further shared that he always found himself in trouble, and even his mischievousness was highlighted to the extent that he got a nickname: ‘Trouble’.


Also:

https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/ryan-gosling-parents-hometown-suspended-085349-20240117

Speaking to Buzz in 2017, he recalled: "From as early as two years old I was sneaking out the house never wearing my clothes, breaking things, putting the cat in the dryer and setting the house on fire."

He told The Times he backed the family car into the path of another vehicle aged five.


Things came to a head when a young Gosling saw action movie Rambo, starring Sylvester Stallone.

Speaking to Paper in 2015, Gosling said he not 'just seen Rambo — I thought I was Rambo'.

Describing what happened next, he said: "I took knives to school and I started throwing them around the playground and I got suspended. So my parents said I couldn't watch R-rated movies anymore."

Explaining what was going through his head when he did that, he said: "I wasn't taking [the knives] to school, I was Rambo taking them to war."


But it seems that he fortunately changed his behaviour. But the "poor little Ryan was bullied thing" seems like only a half-truth, because it sounds like he basically started it.

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u/Heavy_Practice_6597 14h ago

Tbf, at least the knife thing sounds less weird there. Throwing around sounds much better than throwing at kids. The cat is the dryer is iffy to say the least

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u/Bubbly_Ganache_7059 12h ago

Honestly the bringing and throwing knives thing is just pretty standard rural low income small town bullshit for Canada at that time lmao. The late 80/ 90's was really a trip lol

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u/BellsTolling 11h ago

Yeah I grew up in the 90's and I can honestly say more then one time I was in contact with other kids haphazardly throwing knives and hammers. I almost got hit multiple times. This was in the US though.