Bringing up their big box office beef to the stage, Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt and Barbie actor Ryan Gosling roast each other over Barbenheimer at the 2024 Oscars.
As the duo walked on stage, Blunt quickly noticed the “tension” on the stage. “A bit of a frosty hello?” she asked Gosling after he gave her a sassy hello.
“Not at all,” Ryan Gosling responded to Emily Blunt’s greeting. “No, I’m just happy that we can finally put this Barbenheimer rivalry behind us.”
Blunt then said, “That’s right. Here’s Ken and Kitty [Oppenheimer] just leaving all that fodder in the dust.”
However, not long after that response, Emily Blunt decided to take another jab at Ryan Gosling by referencing Barbie’s lack of awards. “And the way this award season has turned out, wasn’t that much of a rivalry. Just let it go.”
Gosling then declared, “You know, I think I kind of figured out why they called it Barbenheimer and they didn’t call it “Oppenbarbie”… Well, I think you guys are at the tail end of that because you were riding Barbie‘s coattails all summer.”
Margot Robbie was then seen laughing in the audience while the crowd declared, “Ohhhh.”
Refusing to let Ryan Gosling get the last word, Emily Blunt stated, “Thanks for ‘Kensplaining’ that to me. All right, mister, I need to paint my abs on to get nominated. You don’t see Robert Downey [Jr.] doing that.”
After he tried to pull the mic away from Blunt, Gosling yelled, “You’re kidding? You’re kidding. This is insane, Emily. This has gotta stop. We have to squash this. We’re here to celebrate the stunt community.”
Blunt ended the conversation with, “Massively.”
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling are co-starring in the upcoming film The Fall Guy.
Ryan Gosling Recently Opened Up About Playing Ken in ‘Barbie’
During a Jan. 2024 interview with W Magazine, Ryan Gosling opened up about what it was like to play Ken in the Barbie movie.
“It was the title page of the script, which said Barbie and Ken, but and Ken was scratched out,” Gosling explained. “And the next impression was, this is the hardest part I’ll ever play. How do you approach playing a 70-year-old crotchless doll? There’s no research you can do for that. There’s no one you can shadow, no documentaries you can watch, no books written about Ken. You’re on your own.”
When about the first scene he shot with Margot Robbie as Barbie, Ryan Gosling said, “The boat—when Barbie and Ken travel to the real world. I brought a prop seagull to set. I asked somebody to puppeteer it in the shot, and I didn’t tell Margot. Ninety percent of the actors I’ve worked with would go [very sarcastically], “You brought a seagull. Great.” But Margot was open to the seagull puppetry.”
In regards to seeing any Ken costumes during the Halloween season, Gosling added, “I did see a Ken in the wild, in Sydney. And I saw a Ken and Barbie–carved pumpkin.”