When Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) introduces his friends to his new girl--a life-size sex doll named Bianca--some folks have trouble accepting it. Brother Gus (Paul Schneider) is concerned that Lars found "a fiancé in a box." One guy mutters that Lars is "in love with that slutty hunk of silicone." But most of the other residents of this wintry Midwestern town go with the flow. They've been urging the cripplingly shy Lars to get a girlfriend. And this one is gorgeous enough to be an instant local celebrity; she looks like Angelina Jolie but smaller and less animated. So let Lars be her Brad Pitt or even her Billy Bob Thornton.

Lars and the Real Girl, which begins as a standard indie study of the sympathetic oddball, soon reveals itself as a gentle comedy of community. Prodded by the town doctor (Patricia Clarkson), Gus and his pregnant wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) figure out that for Lars, Bianca is not a sex object but a love object--an outlet for the tenderness he has never been able to express and that his indulgent friends are thrilled to see bloom. Most movies celebrate the journey to another place. Lars pursues the counterargument--that most of us are defined by our past; we are where we've been. Nancy Oliver, the screenwriter, also wrote five episodes of the HBO series Six Feet Under, which found a similarly skewed way to celebrate family and community.

Ryan Gosling has revealed he still finds his rising success in the movie world "hard to believe".

Despite being nominated for an Oscar for his role as a drug addict teacher in Half Nelson last year, as well as winning a plethora of other awards, the 27-year-old actor says he still struggles to take in how well his career has taken off.

Speaking on the red carpet at the LA premiere of his new film Lars And The Real Girl, Ryan revealed he still struggles to take in his Academy Award nomination: "it was a huge honour, it's hard to believe it happened".

When it comes to choosing roles, the actor insists he's not overly fussy about the parts he takes on: "They're just movies I like to see - of course I ruin them by being in them, I can't go see them and enjoy them - but I read these things and think 'I'd love to see a film like this', it's not complicated."

Source: metro.co.uk

A dapper looking Ryan Gosling stepped out on the red carpet in LA accompanied by his sister and dressed more as if he was attending a school prom in the 70s rather than a movie premiere.

Wearing a pastel blue jacket with a red rose in his button hole, the award winning actor proudly posed for photos with his sister Mandi, who was singing his praises to reporters: "He's a wonder to watch, he's a wonder to behold"

Ryan was having none of it though, arguing: "She got me into all this mess. Mandi's an amazing singer and actor and she was doing it when I was a kid and I just decided to tag along"

His new film Lars and the Real Girl proved to be the surprise hit of last month's Toronto Film Festival, and centres around a delusional young man who strikes up an unconventional relationship with a sex doll he finds on the internet.

In a comic song at last year's Academy Awards, Will Ferrell mocked Ryan Gosling as being all "hip and now." But there's a better way to describe the 26-year-old actor — just darn good.

Already known for a somewhat eclectic filmography, Gosling takes a step over the edge with "Lars and the Real Girl," a quirky flick, due October 12, about an introvert who orders a "Real Girl" sex doll over the Internet, only to parade her around town as his living girlfriend Bianca.

In a recent sit-down with MTV News, Gosling talked "Lars," what he plans on doing to Ferrell, and why you'll never see him in a comic book movie.

MTV: We wanted to compliment you on the hall-of-fame mustache you sport in "Lars and the Real Girl."
Ryan Gosling: A lot of creepy guys gravitate toward the mustache: Hitler, Mussolini, Lars.

MTV: Yeah, creepy but kinda sweet and harmless. Very much like the movie.
Gosling: The script did an amazing job of walking that line. I mean, you don't want it to be funny [and] you don't want it to be too serious. The only thing we could compare it to was a Hal Ashby film, something like "Harold and Maude" or "Being There." Also, I think for me the film has the spirit of a Gene Wilder performance in it. Gene Wilder is kind of my Marlon Brando — he can make you laugh and break your heart in the same moment. We tried to sort of harness that in some way.

Ryan Gosling has revealed that the doll in his new film, Lars And The Real Girl, was treated like a normal person.

In the film, Ryan's character Lars makes friends with a sex doll called Bianca, and introduces her to his family.

And despite Bianca's stillness on set, the cast were drawn to her.

"She's not a blow-up doll. They barely look like some idea of a human being. Bianca has beautiful freckles, she has amazing eyes - they look like they're looking at you," he told us exclusively.