for the $US700,000 ($840,000) film, Half Nelson, he couldn't believe it.
"I don't think anyone was more shocked than I was," he says. "I never thought that was going to happen.
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Gosling, a retiring, politically conscious Canadian who usually shuns the limelight, had been conspicuously absent during the Oscars lead-up. However, he did attend the ceremony with his mum and sister.
mean to the people who mean a lot to you," he says.
"My mother and sister were acting like they'd won the lottery. It ended up being a great night because I got to bring my family. They have always been like that would happen one day, when nobody else did.
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Certainly the 26-year-old, who has mostly played loners and losers in little-seen movies, has not always been the flavour of the month. His penchant for outsider-dom began at age 11, when the and Britney Spears, was desperate for a Canadian recruit.
sideline for most of the shows, coming in briefly at the beginning and end," he says.
"They were sorry that they picked me. They said I was a bad influence on other Mousketeers. I was 12, what could I do?
I was a young guy and to me I was being normal. Most of those kids were really sheltered."
disappointing Hollywood thriller, where he nonetheless managed to get his way and lick Sandra Bullock, in order to demonstrate his character's seductive means of persuasion.
"Ryan's got balls to do that," his co-star, Michael Pitt, said at the time. Gosling had a two-year relationship with Bullock, who is 16 years his senior.
hit, Gosling suddenly became a matinee idol.
He again swept his co-star, this time Rachel McAdams, off her feet. The pair seem to still be an item, though Gosling will not discuss his love-life.
Will he make another romance?
I don't want to get stuck doing any one thing."
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