An excerpt from a recent interview with Ryan Gosling...
For the past couple of years he has had a long-distance relationship with his Notebook co-star and fellow Canadian, Rachel McAdams, who lives in Toronto. No one was more surprised to hear of this than the people who'd known them on set. 'They hated each other. And now they're dating?' said the film's director, Nick Cassavetes. Once, during filming, Gosling asked if he could have a stand-in for his reaction shot because he felt she was so uncooperative he couldn't bear to look at her. Cassavetes refused. A screaming match ensued between the co-stars.
Gosling doesn't deny this. 'We inspired the worst in each other. It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.'
And then what? I ask. 'I don't know what happened ,' he says. 'Two years later I saw her in New York and we started getting the idea that maybe we were wrong about each other ...
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2015640,00.html
For the past couple of years he has had a long-distance relationship with his Notebook co-star and fellow Canadian, Rachel McAdams, who lives in Toronto. No one was more surprised to hear of this than the people who'd known them on set. 'They hated each other. And now they're dating?' said the film's director, Nick Cassavetes. Once, during filming, Gosling asked if he could have a stand-in for his reaction shot because he felt she was so uncooperative he couldn't bear to look at her. Cassavetes refused. A screaming match ensued between the co-stars.
Gosling doesn't deny this. 'We inspired the worst in each other. It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.'
And then what? I ask. 'I don't know what happened ,' he says. 'Two years later I saw her in New York and we started getting the idea that maybe we were wrong about each other ...
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2015640,00.html