Ryan Gosling shared the strange advice he received from the late Burt Reynolds while promoting his new movie Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Jimmy, 56, asked the 43-year-old Canadian actor about the first movie he did with Burt, who died in September 2018 at age 82.
‘I’m surprised you don’t know. Frankenstein and I,” Ryan said of the 1996 film.
Jimmy noted that Burt was a stuntman turned actor and Ryan was playing a stuntman in his new movie The Fall Guy.
Ryan said he was about 13 or 14 when he did Frankenstein and I and Jimmy asked him if he could spend time with Burt.
Ryan Gosling shared the strange advice he received from Burt Reynolds while promoting his new movie on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday.
“It’s complicated,” Ryan said.
—Because I thought he liked it. I thought he thought there was something special about me. And then I realized that I have a very beautiful mother,” Ryan said, referring to his mother Donna.
“Oh,” Jimmy said. —So your mom was on set with you?
‘He was just kind of interested. It was as if he was taking on a secondary glow. The real shine went to my mom. And I thought, “Oh, this is a sideshow,” Ryan said.
“How long did it take you to realize that?” Jimmy asked.
“I wish I had figured it out sooner,” Ryan admitted.
Jimmy asked if his mom was flattered by the attention.
“Oh my god, she loved it, are you kidding me?” Ryan said.
Burt Reynolds appears in a still image from the 1996 film Frankenstein and Me.
Ryan appears as a teenager in the film Frankenstein and Me.
—Because I thought he liked it. I thought he thought there was something special about me. And then I realized that I have a very beautiful mother,” Ryan said, referring to his mother Donna.
Ryan appears with his mother Donna at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Jimmy asked if Burt was friendly.
‘Yes, but you know. She was being friendly. She signed things all the time. She signed a Mean Machine t-shirt,” Ryan said.
Ryan said Burt also told all the kids not to watch Deliverance.
—Which, of course, was the first thing we did. “We should have listened to him,” Ryan said.
“Sure,” Jimmy said.
“He gave me this strange advice. He said, ‘Let me tell you something, kid. “Don’t spend your whole life stepping on diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia,” Ryan said.
‘What does that mean?’ said Jimmy.
“He gave me this strange advice. He said, ‘Let me tell you something, kid. “Don’t spend your whole life stepping on diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia,” Ryan said.
Ryan said Burt, shown in 1981, also told all the kids not to watch Deliverance.
“I thought, ‘I’m 13 years old. “I don’t know what those things are. “I don’t know what any of that is. Stop looking at my mom. I’m here,” Ryan said, laughing.
Ryan showed off his stunt skills as he fought off several men while making his way to the stage.
He plays veteran stuntman Colt Seavers in the action comedy The Fall Guy, which Universal Pictures will release on Friday.
The Fall Guys also stars Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu and Winston Duke.