Lauren Sarner
Eva Mendes thinks Ryan Gosling is Kenough.
On Sunday night, Gosling, 43, looked visibly stunned when his “Barbie” song, “I’m Just Ken,” won a Critics Choice Award.
When presenters Bella Ramsey and Anthony Ramos announced that writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt took home the trophy for best song — for the anthem that Gosling belted out in the summer blockbuster sensation – Gosling seemed like he didn’t expect the song to win.
His reaction then became a viral meme, in part perpetuated by his longtime partner.
On Monday, Eva Mendes, 49, took to social media to react.
Posting a meme of Gosling’s face — with his stunned-looking expression when the award was announced — Mendes proclaimed, “I LOVE HIM!!!!”
Gosling and Mendes met while filming the 2012 movie “The Place Beyond the Pines.” They have two daughters together: Amada Lee, 7, and Esmeralda Amada, 8.
The couple rarely post about each other online, or share much about their relationship with the public.
They’ve also been cagey about whether they’re married.
During a 2022 interview with Australian podcast “on the subject.
“Who says we weren’t already?” she said. “I like to keep it all mysterious. I’m a very mysterious woman.”
She further fueled speculation when she referred to Gosling as her “husband” in 2022 — but, they have never confirmed their marital status.
Mendes once revealed that the couple doesn’t post much about each other online or do red carpets together because they don’t like “exposing our very private life that we value.”
She added: “I’m still dying to do another movie with him though.”
Gosling thanked his longtime partner in his acceptance speech at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday after winning the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film.
“Most importantly, I got to meet the girl of my dreams, Eva Mendes, and have two dream children,” Gosling gushed.
Gosling has previously said his daughters played a part in him taking on the role of Ken in “Barbie,” which got him a Golden Globe nomination.
During an interview with GQ in May, he explained that when he was mulling over taking the role, he saw a discarded Ken doll that his daughters had been playing with.
“I did see him, like, face down in the mud outside one day, next to a squished lemon, and it was like, ‘This guy’s story does need to be told,’ you know?”
During his acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Awards, Ronson said, “Ryan Gosling, this is as much your award as ours. You made the audience fall in love with this song with your matchless performance, so thank you.”
He also thanked “Barbie” star and producer Margot Robbie, and co-writers Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig.
“The fact that you carved out 11 minutes for this prog-rock, power ballad, dream ballet, shred fest so the boys could cry and hold hands a little too, we’re really forever in your debt for that,” Ronson said.
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