The Fall Guy had Ryan Gosling bringing out his inner Swiftie for one particular scene.
In the movie, directed by Bullet Train's David Leitch, the actor plays stuntman Colt Seavers, who decides to go back to work after a serious injury in order to reconnect with lost love Jody Moreno (played by Emily Blunt).
Initially, things don't go according to plan, which sees him searching for an emotional release by cry-singing 'All Too Well' by Taylor Swift in his car.
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"It was very cool. It was very cathartic. I think I cried a little too hard. Emily Blunt was like, 'Just a little less, that's too much. Not that vulnerable!'," the actor admits in an exclusive interview with Digital Spy.
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"I just love this film, and I love that you could have a character that rolls a car eight and a half times and gets set on fire, and then can go have a good car cry with Taylor Swift," says Gosling.
"There is a range there, and a lot of layers that I think you don't really find in a lot of action movies or action characters. To me, it was really exciting and fun," he added.
Gosling has played a stuntman on screen before in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, and he has been working alongside professional stuntmen during his almost three-decades-long career in Hollywood.
With The Fall Guy, he can pay tribute to that often unseen stunt work.
"I think it's always been this kind of strange dynamic for me as an actor, because they [stuntmen] also play the same character, they're in the same union, they are also actors and they come in and play the character with you, but they get none of the credit for that," Gosling explains to Digital Spy.
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"It's like the better they are at their job, the more they disappear. It has never felt great. It’s nice to finally be doing something that highlights what they do. It's just been so fun to be shining a light on them and everything that they contribute," he added.
Leitch, who is a former stuntman (with credits including acting as Brad Pitt's stunt double in Fight Club), felt the pressure of representing the community in this new movie.
"There is a lot of expectation with the title of The Fall Guy, because it was such an iconic title for the stunt community," he says to Digital Spy, remembering the '80s TV series that inspired the movie.
"It may not be known to the world as much anymore – it was in the '80s, but for stunt people, there are very few shows and movies about them. So we wanted to make sure we were doing stuff that was honouring that old-school tradition of some real, practical stunts," he added.
The Fall Guy also stars Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham, Marvel star Winston Duke, Everything Everywhere All At Once's Stephanie Hsu and A Discovery of Witches' Teresa Palmer.
The Fall Guy is released in UK cinemas on May 2.
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Mireia (she/her) has been working as a movie and TV journalist for over eight years. Based in the UK, she is a former deputy movies editor at Digital Spy, and previously worked for the Spanish magazine Fotogramas. Mireia's work has been published in other outlets such as Esquire and Elle in Spain, and WeLoveCinema and GamesRadar+ in the UK. She is also a published author, having written the essay Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: Nicky, la aprendiz de bruja about Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service.
During her years as a freelance journalist and film critic, Mireia has covered festivals around the world and has interviewed high-profile talents such as Kristen Stewart, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more. She's also taken part in juries such as the FIPRESCI jury at Venice Film Festival and the short film jury at Kingston International Film Festival in London. LinkedIn
