We’ve learned something today: even if you despise Ryan Gosling, you could end up in a relationship with him. For it turns out that despite their lachrymose lovin’ onscreen and their four-year relationship that followed the release of the film, Rachel McAdams and Gosling couldn’t stand each other on set. In honor of the film’s ten-year anniversary, Director Nick Cassavetes spoke to VH1, recalling their dramatic distaste for one another:
Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, “Nick come here.” And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, “Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?” I said, “What?” He says, “I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this…We went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other. I walked out. At that point I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette and everybody came out like, “All right let’s do this.” And it got better after that, you know? They had it out… I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. The rest of the film wasn’t smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing.
