Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes’ love story started when they starred together in the film “The Place Beyond the Pines,” where they played ex-lovers raising a son together. At the time, being a father himself wasn’t on Gosling’s mind, but it was like a switch had flipped that made him realize he was cut out to be a dad after all — but only if his kids had Mendes as their mother.
In his 2023 GQ profile, the actor said he only entertained the idea of becoming a dad when Mendes told him that she was carrying his child. “I’m glad I didn’t have control over my destiny in that way, because it was so much better than I ever had dreamed for myself,” he shared, later adding that Mendes was the missing piece all along. When they were filming, there were even times when he wished they were an actual family. “I wasn’t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her. And there were moments on ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ where we were pretending to be a family, and I didn’t really want it to be pretend anymore,” he recalled.
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And now, he can’t imagine life without Mendes and their two kids. “In my situation, Eva’s the dream mother, and they’re dream babies, and it’s like a dream that I’m having right now,” he gushed in his 2016 profile with the magazine. “I’m dreaming it all. So I feel so lucky.”
