Sylvester Stallone and Ryan Gosling were in each other’s orbit because the huge action star almost played one of the Kens in “Barbie.” Stallone told Fallon he couldn’t because of his commitment to filming his hit Paramount+ series “Tulsa King.” On top of that, he isn’t quite convinced he’s as much of a living doll as Gosling is. “Obviously, we are opposites,” he said. “He’s good-looking. I’m not. Seriously! Could you imagine me as Ken? It doesn’t work at all.”
On the flip side, Stallone said he’s afraid that Gosling’s Ken-like appearance might be a detriment if he were up for consideration to take over the classic role. “I would say yes but I don’t know if anyone would say, ‘Hey, he’s too good-looking to be Rambo,” the actor said.
As he apparently admitted to Stallone during their dinner, Gosling has had Rambo on the brain for a long time. “I even thought my face felt like Sylvester Stallone’s and I put a bunch of steak knives in my Fisher-Price Houdini kit,” he revealed to Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” in 2011. “I took it to school the next day and I threw them at all the kids at recess.”
