Ryan Gosling shared the odd advice he got from the late Burt Reynolds while promoting his new film on Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The 43-year-old Canadian actor was asked by Jimmy, 56, about his first ever movie that he did with Burt, who died in September 2018 at age 82.
‘I’m surprised that you don’t know it. Frankenstein and Me,’ Ryan said of the 1996 film.
Jimmy noted that Burt was a stuntman who became an actor and Ryan was playing a stuntman in his new movie The Fall Guy.
Ryan said he was about age 13 or 14 when he made Frankenstein and Me and Jimmy asked if he got to spend time with Burt.
Ryan Gosling shared the odd advice he got from Burt Reynolds while promoting his new film on Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live
‘It’s complicated,’ Ryan said.
‘Because I thought he took a shine to me. I thought he thought there was something special about me. And then I realized that I have a very beautiful mom,’ Ryan said referencing his mother Donna.
‘Oh,’ Jimmy said. ‘So your mom was on set with you?’
‘He was just kind of interested. It was like I was getting like a secondary shine. The real shine was for my mom. And I was like, ”oh, this is secondary shine”,’ Ryan said.
‘How long did it take you to figure that out?,’ Jimmy asked.
‘I wish I had found out sooner,’ Ryan admitted.
Jimmy asked if his mom was flattered by the attention.
‘My god, she loved it, are you kidding me?,’ Ryan said.
Burt Reynolds is shown in a still from the 1996 film Frankenstein and Me
Ryan is shown as a teenager in the film Frankenstein and Me
‘Because I thought he took a shine to me. I thought he thought there was something special about me. And then I realized that I have a very beautiful mom,’ Ryan said referencing his mother Donna
Ryan is shown with his mother Donna in 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival
Jimmy asked if Burt was friendly.
‘Yeah, but you know. He was being friendly. He would sign stuff all the time. He signed a Mean Machine t-shirt,’ Ryan said.
Ryan said that Burt also told all the kids not to see Deliverance.
‘Which of course is the first thing we did. We should have listened to him,’ Ryan said.
‘For sure,’ Jimmy said.
‘He gave me this odd piece of advice. He was like, ”Let me tell you something kid, Don’t spend your whole life stepping over diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia”,’ Ryan said.
‘And what does that mean?,’ Jimmy said.
‘He gave me this odd piece of advice. He was like, ”Let me tell you something kid, Don’t spend your whole life stepping over diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia”,’ Ryan said.
Ryan said that Burt, shown in 1981, also told all the kids not to see Deliverance
‘I was like, ”I’m 13. I don’t know what any of those things are.” I don’t know what any of that is. Stop looking at my mom. I’m right here,’ Ryan said laughing.
Ryan showed off his stuntman skills as he fought off several men while making his way to the stage.
He portrays veteran stuntman Colt Seavers in the action comedy The Fall Guy that is scheduled to be released on Friday by Universal Pictures.
The Fall Guys also stars Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, and Winston Duke.
