Ryan Gosling Makes Awesome Stunt Entrance & Talks “I'm Just Ken” Oscars Performance & The Fall Guy

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Our first guest tonight is a man from Canada who played Ken and got nominated for an Oscar for it.
Next, he risks life and limb alongside Emily Blunt in the new Romaction comedy, The Fall Guy.
It opens in theaters Friday.
Please say hello to Ryan Gosling.
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Hey.
Reps on the movie, man.
Thanks.
Oh, nice suit.
I didn't know it was still Easter.
No, this is like a late summer peach.
Oh, OK.
Can I borrow your lamp?
Oh, yeah, no problem, man.
Thanks.
Have a great show.
Break a leg.
OK.
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Yes, how do I look?
Do I look cool?
Thanks.
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Get her!
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Get her!
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Hit him!
Finish it!
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I got, um, yeah, give him some attention, will ya?
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You OK?
Yeah.
You beat up a lot of our staff.
You really beat a lot of people up on the way in.
I can't stop stunting, Jimmy.
Oh, is that what it is?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
When it's...
Yeah, I couldn't stop kenning, and now I can't stop stunting.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
I understand.
It makes you feel alive.
Yeah, I know.
You know, Carol Burnett had the same entrance when she was here last week.
Really?
Yeah.
How about Guillermo?
Guillermo's like...
A lot of people don't know.
We used to have a street fighting business as a side hustle.
That's right, yeah.
I'd set him up, and he would knock him down.
Have you been in a fight, Guillermo?
Like, a real fight ever?
Oh, my God.
They call him Grimmy Guillermo.
Yeah.
Of course, yeah, I've been in a fight, yes.
You have?
Yes.
He's like a panda or a koala bear, where you think he looks so cute and gentle, but then, man, he'll tear an eyeball right out of your head.
We rope-a-dope him.
Ha, ha, ha.
How are you doing?
It's great to see you.
And, by the way, just congratulations, because I know that for you, number one, the number one most important thing in your life is your career.
Above family, above the Lord, you name it.
It's number one.
And, man, oh, man.
Sorry.
Are you on a roll.
Can't stop stunting, Jimmy.
Ha, ha, ha.
You were...
I should try it.
You have really gone...
You know what you've done is here, you've made not only the movie, not only is the movie itself wildly entertaining, you've made the lead-up to the movie wildly entertaining.
It's almost like we got...
Even if you don't see the movie, which you should see the movie, we got something out of the whole deal.
You did a fantastic job on Saturday Night Live.
And then...
Thank you.
And then...
Thank you.
You took kind of a breakout...
Well, let's run the clip there.
The breakout stars of your appearance on Saturday Night Live showed up at your premiere last night.
Yeah.
You surprised everyone.
Well, that's Dean and Jeff.
Right.
Yeah.
You...
But that's you and Mikey Day.
No, see, I look a lot like him and he looks like Beavis.
It's weird.
That's Dean and Jeff.
They're both from Sacramento.
Uh-huh.
But they never met until recently.
Yeah, now they become friends.
What do they do for work, those guys?
Oh, um...
Dean works at the Chips Ahoy factory.
Oh, really?
Uh-huh.
But not on the floor.
He does sort of analytics.
Okay.
And Jeff...
He never gets on the floor.
He never gets any cookies.
It's a bummer.
And Jeff works for Safe Flight.
Oh, the auto glass.
Yeah.
Oh, the auto glass company.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, really good guys.
Well, they seem like good guys.
Did they go to the after party or they, uh...
Yeah, that's where I met them.
Yeah, they're having their moment.
The last time I saw you was at the Oscars.
You were, uh...
You stole the show from me.
I don't think that's...
You pulled off quite a heist.
That was a great performance.
You killed it.
Can we talk about how good you were?
What's that?
Yeah.
That was a really fun...
It was fun.
You know how I know you killed it?
Because I lost all night, and I felt like a winner still.
So somehow you made that happen.
You should've felt like a winner.
Putting that whole performance of yours together was quite a team effort, an endeavor.
A lot of people were involved in it.
And I know you were nervous about how it would come off, right?
I wonder why.
It looked so effortless when we saw the final deal, but one of the things that I remember when we were planning the show that was very important was that Slash, the guitarist, was a part of it.
We had to have Slash.
You had to have Slash.
But Slash was not...
But he's an enigma.
How can you have Slash?
You can't have Slash.
There's so much mystery around Slash.
You don't snap your fingers, and he appears.
It was very tense.
It was tense.
He had a gig in China the night before.
Right.
And then one in Thailand the night after.
Right.
And so it was like,
Slash is never gonna be able to be here.
He wasn't at rehearsal the day before.
He wasn't at rehearsal.
He wasn't even at rehearsal the day of, right?
And then suddenly, right before, as I was walking into dress rehearsal,
I saw a guitar case, and it had a skull with a top hat on it.
And I knew that Slash had arrived.
You knew that he had arrived.
Yeah.
And then after the show, he was gone.
He was gone.
He went right to the next gig.
Yes.
What was your first movie?
Was that the movie you did with Burt Reynolds?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Surprise, you don't know it.
Frankenstein and Me.
Frankenstein and Me.
Yeah.
Previously, Mojave, Frankenstein.
And Burt Reynolds was a stuntman who became an actor.
Yeah.
In this whole world.
Not that you did, but, you know, you're an actor that became a stuntman for a movie.
Not really a stuntman.
You're not really a stuntman.
You know that, right?
No, but God, I love stunts.
Stunting is great.
You gotta try.
I know you like the stunt guy.
Did you see me doing stunts?
I did.
I saw that.
I was watching.
I was doing stunts the whole way out here.
And Burt Reynolds, you were what, like a kid in this movie?
Yes.
How old were you?
I was like 13, 14.
Did you get time with Burt?
It's complicated.
Because I thought he took a shine to me.
Uh-huh.
I thought he thought there was something special about me.
Uh-huh.
And then I realized that I have a really beautiful mom.
Oh!
So your mom was on set with you?
He was just kind of interested.
It was like I was getting like a secondary shine.
The real shine was from my mom and I was like, oh, this is secondary shine.
How long did it take you to figure that out?
I wish I had found out sooner.
Did your mom was she flattered by that?
Oh my God, she loved it.
Oh man, if they'd gotten married nothing happened.
Okay, just saying.
He just liked my, he was just like, oh.
You could have been
Ryan Reynolds had that worked out.
Did you, did you talk to Burt?
Was he like, was he friendly?
Did he give you
Yeah, but well, you know.
He wanted mom.
We know why he was being friendly.
He would sign stuff for me and I was like, oh, he would sign stuff all the time.
Like you signed a mean machine t-shirt and it was good.
Yes.
He told us not to see deliverance, all the kids.
Did he really?
Of course, it's the first thing we did.
I should have listened to him.
Yeah, for sure.
He gave me this odd piece of advice.
He was like, let me tell you something, kid, don't spend your whole life stepping over diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia.
And what does that mean?
I was like,
I'm 13.
I,
I don't know.
I don't know what any of those things are.
I don't know what any of that is.
But now that you're an adult, it's still...
Stop looking at my mom.
I'm right here.
Ryan Gosling is here with us.
The Fall Guy is just moving with the right guy.
How are you feeling,
Colt Stevens?
He's good.
We're going to go again, thumbs up, okay?
Colt, do you feel a bit flung into the deep end here?
I'm just wondering because you haven't read the script, yeah, hopeful?
Okay, here we go.
So, sci-fi love story, two characters, one of them's an alien.
Aliena and your space cowboy.
They shared what's called a moon season.
In real life, you might call it a fling.
Um, brief, but very intense and hopeful.
I can hit the rock better now, thanks.
We're going again!
And action!
That's a cut!
We are back with Ryan Gosling and this is
Movie of the Fall Guys.
It opens in theaters on Friday exclusively in theaters.
And you are,
I was thinking about this when I was watching the movie, is you're playing, you're an actor playing a stuntman for an actor in a movie about an actor who has a stuntman.
And that's some
Christopher Nolan level inception-y stuff.
And then, on top of it, to make it even more confusing, your director, the real director of the movie
Yes, David Leitch.
David Leitch who did a fantastic job is a stuntman, was a stuntman, still, you're always a stuntman if you were a stuntman.
Right.
But who better to make a film about a stuntman and the stunt community?
100%.
Right.
For sure.
But you, and again,
I'd like to remind you, you are not a stuntman.
I feel like
But I was doing some stunts earlier.
Yeah, yeah.
I know you
You did
I was stunting pretty hard.
Do stunts.
That's true.
That wasn't a stuntman doing your stunts for you?
You should try
That was me doing those stunts.
You should do some stunts too.
I'm just saying it'll change
What kind of stunts do you think I could do?
How many times have I walked out onto this chair?
It was never that exciting.
No, it wasn't.
That was the most exciting.
Stunts.
It's always exciting but not quite that exciting.
Never like that.
Yeah, yeah.
The stakes.
It was life or death.
Yeah.
You didn't know if I was going to get here or not.
You feel alive, Jimmy.
Yeah.
When was the last time you felt alive?
I can't even think of a time.
Exactly.
Maybe when I was born was the last time when they cut that umbilical cord.
I happen to have some very realistic looking labelless beer bottles.
Great.
Do you want to break one on my head?
Or you could break it on my head, whatever you think.
You want to do it at the same time?
Oh, that's a good idea.
Okay.
How are we going to count it down, though?
Is there any trick before I do this?
Wait, let me think.
I should be asking a stunt man.
I think you want to do it on the back of the head.
Oh, on the back of the head.
Yeah.
Okay, are you wearing a cup?
Because I might not do it on the head at all.
Do it on the head.
Okay, on the head.
One, two, three.
I'm going to tell you something.
Not to be a baby, but it hurt a lot more than I thought it was going to.
My whole head is tingling.
It actually went down the back of my pants.
I feel like there might be blood if I really...
No blood?
I'm going to fix your hair.
Okay, good.
All right.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
No blood.
No blood.
No blood.
No blood.
No blood.
No blood.
No blood.
You're good, but it is down the back of my pants.
Are the guys who were...
The stunt guys you were fighting over?
They're literally here.
Can we bring them out and say hi?
Yeah, let's bring them out and say hi because they don't get any...
They really don't get...
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
They don't get any.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
This is my real stunt team.
When you saw me get set on fire there, that was
Ben Jenkin.
Anytime I do anything cool, parkour-y, get hit by a car, that's Ben.
Justin did the martial arts.
Logan broke the world record for most cannon rolls in a film ever.
That was worth it.
Troy Brown does the high fall at the end and, you know,
Grizzly Guillermo just, I mean.
Looks good.
Yeah, looks good.
Looks real good.
So, will you guys like, will you guys go out afterwards and, like, throw each other through a saloon window or something like that or how will this go?
Is this it for you guys or will you continue to hang?
Let's go right now.
Don't tempt them.
Yeah, no,
I won't tempt you.
Well, that's, you guys did a great job in the movie, by the way.
Thank you.
Is that your regular hair or does Ryan make you wear it like that to match him?
It's mandated, I have to say.
It's mandated, yeah.
Well done.
The movie is called
The Fall Guy.
There are real life
Fall Guys, except for one.
One of these things is not real life.
The Fall Guy opens in theaters this Friday.
Ryan Gosling, everybody.
Thank you, Ryan.
And the stunt team, we'll be back with Jeff Ross.
We'll be right back.