Margot Robbie admits she ‘bribed’ Ryan Gosling to play Ken in ‘Barbie’

Margot Robbie needed to do some convincing to have Ryan Gosling star as Ken within the extremely anticipated “Barbie” film.

The Aussie actress, 33, who stars because the pink-loving doll within the movie, made a suggestion to Gosling, 42, that he merely couldn’t refuse.

“I simply bribed him actually. That’s the premise of our relationship,” Robbie informed the New York Times. “Simply come do the ‘Barbie’ film, I’ll purchase you a gift every single day.”

Gosling revealed that the interesting supply “began as a joke in a textual content.”

“There was abruptly this pink current from Barbie to Ken, every single day, for a really lengthy shoot. It felt unsustainable,” the “La La Land” actor informed the outlet.

“I assumed this has to cease sooner or later. There have been instances on set the place I obtained a puka shell necklace.”

“You don’t should maintain doing this,” he mentioned to Robbie. “I’m positive you have got different issues to do, like produce a film and star in a film, and run an organization. And produce different individuals’s movies. You don’t should maintain regarding your self with this.”

“I decide to a joke. I actually do,” Robbie quipped.

When quizzed on the “weirdest” reward he’s obtained from the “Babylon” star, Gosling mentioned there was one current that stood out particularly.

“She gave me a e-book as a joke about horses and I learn it and cherished it. I really feel it will make an ideal movie. It was very surprising,” he added.

It comes as Gosling revealed his children had been fully unfazed once they discovered he can be taking part in Ken within the movie, directed by Greta Gerwig.

Talking to People, the “Pocket book” actor mentioned his daughters Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 7, whom he shares with longtime accomplice Eva Mendes, had been left “confused” on the information.

“My children had been my introduction to [‘Barbie’],” he informed the outlet. “I feel they’re confused as to why I’d wish to play Ken. They don’t have any use for Ken.”

Regardless of their preliminary confusion, Gosling mentioned his daughters helped him prep for the function.

“My children had been round for the months at residence, as I used to be prepping for it,” he shared. “In order that they, inadvertently, had been prepping for it too.”

“And so they got here to set that day and had been an enormous sense of help and doing it with me off-camera,” he added.