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Ryan Gosling was just 19 when he starred in Remember the Titans
The football film featured Gosling as a struggling football player adjusting to an integrated team
Gosling talked football with Travis and Jason Kelce on the New Heights podcast
Ryan Gosling has a sense of humor about his football fumble.
While appearing on Jason and Travis Kelce‘s podcast, New Heights, the NFL stars introduced Gosling by naming some of his biggest films, including Remember the Titans.
“You had to call out Remember the Titans too, man,” the Project Hail Mary actor, 45, laughed, adding, “Don’t ever forget that I’m a liability at the corner.”
Asked if that’s the role he hears the most about, Gosling said, “It doesn’t matter what I accomplish in my life. There’ll be someone in the comment section that says, ‘Never forget he’s an absolute liability at the point.’ It doesn’t matter what I do.”
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The 2000 football drama was based on the true story of Herman Boone (Denzel Washington), who was responsible for the integration of the T. C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971.
Gosling was just 19 when he played Alan Bosley, a player who is trying to maintain his spot on the newly integrated squad and finds competition in Petey Jones (Donald Faison). In a selfless moment in the championship game, Bosley lets Jones play, knowing he’s the stronger player.
“The fact that you guys would have me, knowing I’m a liability at the corner,” Gosling joked on the podcast adding, “it means a lot to me.”
“We’re all about team players. And that was a team move,” Jason replied.
In 2017, Faison, now 51, looked back on the film in a conversation with Us Weekly, admitting, “The one thing that we didn’t know before starting the movie was that they threw all of the actors into a football camp. We had to go through it — each and every one of us.”
“Some of us got injured really bad. We couldn’t understand why we were working so hard. We learned how to play football even though we had stunt doubles to do all this stuff. We got into fights, it was crazy! But we got out of it and we were a tight group. We hung out together. It made us very much like a team. We didn’t know each other before we started the camp. To go through all that brought us together and helped us out.”
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