Ryan Gosling's acting talents are well established.
However, he demonstrated it again during the 96th Oscars 2024 ceremony, which took place on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
The planned performance was eagerly awaited.
And she did not disappoint.
Ryan Gosling performed, in a pink sequined costume, a flamboyant “I’m just Ken”, taken from the soundtrack of the film phenomenon “Barbie” and a narcissistic song which implicitly mocks toxic masculinity.
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Sitting in the audience just behind Margot Robbie, cowboy hat on his head and sunglasses screwed on his nose, he began his song in front of a hilarious film crew.
Not always managing to keep a straight face himself, he arrived on stage where an almost entirely pink decor and dancers awaited him.
Slash, Margot Robbie and Emma Stone
Several male actors from the film - Ncuti Gatwa, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Scott Evans - also participated in this musical scene, dancing behind Ryan Gosling.
The chief "Ken" then joined, in the center of the set, Slash, the guitarist of Guns N'Roses who performs an electric guitar solo in this satirical ballad (in which the composer, Mark Ranson, also included for the BO Josh Freese, drummer of the Foo Fighters, and Wolfgang Van Halen, who was also present on the Oscars stage).
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Ryan Gosling continued his show with other VIPs, as he went down into the stands to lend the microphone for a few moments to the director of the film, Greta Gerwig, then to the actress who plays Barbie, Margot Robie, to their neighbor , America Ferrera, who also stars in the film.
Ryan Gosling even got actress Emma Stone, with whom he co-starred in 2016's "La La Land," to sing a few notes.
If “Oppenheimer” largely won the prize, the music from the film “Barbie” was definitely in the spotlight, since another title from the feature film, “What Was I Made For?”
» by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell, received the Oscar for best original song.
This piano ballad, performed on Sunday by the American singer in a deliberately fragile voice, had already won the Grammy Awards for best song of the year.