5 April 2013 12:51 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
"I had this real sense of shame about it all, that I had blown it." That's a miserable feeling for any actor working in film, when there's no second performance to make it all better, and especially while actually making the movie. But Ryan Gosling's shame over the face tattoo he opted for in The Place Beyond the Pines actually wound up contributing to the role. Playing Luke, a stunt driver in a "motorcycle boy band" who travels with a carnival, Gosling has bleached hair and tattoos, and steps into the role of a man who only learns he's a father when the child is nearly a year old. As he told me, the face tattoo and the terrible hair seemed to suggest a guy who had made a lifetime of bad decisions-- and though Gosling wound up regretting the face tattoo, it all worked into how he played »
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