Seven years later, Ryan Gosling still haunted by ‘lazy’ moment in La La Land: ‘I have to see it all the time’

Ryan Gosling is still trying to live down a major moment from La La Land.

When asked which movie he would like to redo, the Academy Award nominee, 43, told the Wall Street Journal ‘maybe La La Land’ because of his pose on the poster.   

‘There’s a moment that haunts me where we’re dancing, Emma [Stone] and I,’ he explained. ‘And I didn’t know this would become the poster for the movie.

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‘We were supposed to have our hands up, and I thought it would be cooler to put my hand like that,’ said Gosling, gesturing with a flat hand. ‘Even though everyone told me it wasn’t cool.’

He continued, ‘Now when I look at it and I have to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this?’

When asked which movie he’d like to redo, Ryan Gosling said ‘maybe La La Land’ because of his pose on the poster

‘There’s a moment that haunts me where we’re dancing, Emma [Stone] and I,’ he explained. ‘And I didn’t know this would become the poster for the movie’

‘That,’ Gosling admitted, angling his hand up.

‘It just killed the energy that way,’ he added. ‘It was sort of all leading to what? Just a lazy — I call it “La La Hand.”‘

Gosling was shocked to learn that the move is known as ‘hamburger hands’ in the dance community. ‘It’s a thing!’ he said.

And although the Mickey Mouse Club alum learned to dance as a kid, Gosling isn’t sure those skills stuck.

‘Well, I thought it would help in La La Land. And then of course, Hamburger Hands Gosling over here, it didn’t help me at all in the end,’ he joked.

Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the 2016 movie musical romance starred Gosling as struggling jazz musician Sebastian and Stone, 35, as aspiring actress Mia.

The movie earned Gosling his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor, following 2006’s Half Nelson.

In an infamous pop culture moment, La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture instead of winner Moonlight.

Gosling most recently earned a Best Supporting Actor nod earlier this year for his beloved performance as Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. 

‘It just killed the energy that way,’ he said of how his hand is angled on the poster

The movie earned Gosling his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor, following 2006’s Half Nelson

Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the 2016 movie musical romance starred Gosling as struggling jazz musician Sebastian and Stone, 35, as aspiring actress Mia

In the same interview, the Canadian actor revealed how fatherhood has influenced the characters he plays. 

‘I don’t really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place,’ he said.

Before starring in La La Land, Gosling was known for more serious roles in Murder by Numbers (2002), Blue Valentine (2010), Drive (2011) and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). 

‘This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us,’ said Gosling.

He added, ‘The decisions I make, I make them with Eva [Mendes], and we make them with our family in mind first.’

In the same interview, the Canadian actor explained how fatherhood and La La Land made him decide not to take anymore roles that put him in a ‘dark place’

Gosling can be seen in The Fall Guy, now playing in theaters

Gosling shares daughters Esmerelda Amalda, 9, and 8-year-old Amada Lee with Mendes, 50, whom met while filming The Place Beyond the Pines. 

‘I think La La Land was the first,’ said Gosling of his professional epiphany.  

‘It was sort of like, oh, this will be fun for them too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing.’

He added, ‘I think it’s happened when I had kids — really, you start to be way more conscious of everything you do and everything you’ve ever done and everything you will do if you get a chance to do it.’

Gosling can be seen in The Fall Guy, now playing in theaters.