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Ryan Gosling Reveals The Reason He Won't Let His Girls See Barbie, And I Get It. Kind Of

Ryan Gosling looking distressed as Ken while singing I'm Just Ken in Barbie.

It's essential for parents to be ever vigilant about what their children watch and are exposed to in the internet age–this goes for celebrities as much as it does for everyday folks. But when it comes to parental controls, the last movie that might come to mind is last year’s billion-dollar blockbuster Barbie. But that is precisely the case in the Gosling household. Ryan and his wife Eva Mendes have yet to let their daughters Esmerelda, 9, and Amada, 7, watch one of the best movies of 2023, which happens to include their father in the impressive cast, and I get the reasoning. Well, kind of. 

The Ken actor recently revealed to E! News that despite the fact he made the movie for his girls, he and his wife haven’t let them watch it yet because he’s not sure it's good for them to see their father as the neon-clad longtime Barbie friend and sometime boyfriend. According to the Drive actor, he isn't sure when a good age would be appropriate to be exposed to something so strange. He had this to say to the outlet: 

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