Ryan Gosling might not look like your typical elementary school science teacher, but Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller think there was no one better to play Ryland Grace, their new sci-fi movie's protagonist.
"He came to us with the material, so he was already a part of it, but it was part of what made it really a very easy yes," Lord tells GamesRadar+. "Because he's capable of so many different facets of a performance [and] this movie requires him to use all of them in a single picture. But we were huge fans of his from all his work, particularly Nice Guys, where he is hilarious, and we share an editor with that film, and we just knew we were going to get all the variations that were going to be necessary in a movie like this."
