{"id":2016849,"date":"2025-09-12T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2016849"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:10","slug":"conan-obrien-showing-real-promise-with-acting-leaning-on-pal-ryan-gosling-to-fine-tune-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/conan-obrien-showing-real-promise-with-acting-leaning-on-pal-ryan-gosling-to-fine-tune-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O\u2019Brien \u2018Showing Real\u2019 Promise With Acting, Leaning on Pal Ryan Gosling to Fine-Tune Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Ryan Gosling<\/strong> \u2014 the <em>Barbie<\/em> flick\u2019s hunky Ken \u2014 has quietly struck up a surprise friendship with funnyman <strong>Conan O\u2019Brien<\/strong>, sources say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 44-year-old <em>Notebook<\/em> heartthrob has a reputation as one of Tinseltown\u2019s most solitary celebrities \u2014 he rarely hangs with his acting peers, preferring to hole up with longtime galpal-actress <strong>Eva Mendes<\/strong>, 51, and their daughters <strong>Esmeralda<\/strong>, 11, and <strong>Amada<\/strong>, 9.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path 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break-words\">\u201cThey\u2019ve socialized with him regularly over the 15 or so years that Conan has lived in L.A., especially as Ryan became one of Conan\u2019s favorite guests on his old TBS show [<em>Conan<\/em>], where they would do some pretty elaborate bits that almost always went viral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gosling nabbed an Oscar nomination for his Ken role in the 2023 blockbuster movie <em>Barbie<\/em>, costarring <strong>Margot Robbie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Team Coco&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"502\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/YYg3zOI42Nro4Br3ehQ2.Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUwMjtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/national_enquirer_328\/6bea0b9c89a9e951e98a5fe07416b70e\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Coco<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, sources say he\u2019s looking to <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> alum O\u2019Brien for inspiration to polish his comedy skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRyan has been a student of comedy since he was a kid, and Conan has become his Obi-Wan Kenobi mentor,\u201d notes the pal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe\u2019s helped Ryan sharpen his skills and get huge laughs doing it. Ryan\u2019s <em>Barbie<\/em> role was a culmination of that, but far from the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRyan\u2019s next blockbuster, <em>Project Hail Mary<\/em>, is one of his most comedic to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But the bromance is a two-way street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cConan has leaned on Ryan and some of his other \u2018serious actor\u2019 pals as he starts to dip into film acting opportunities of his own, starting with the critically acclaimed Sundance hit coming out later this year with <strong>Rose Byrne<\/strong>, <em>If I Had Legs, I\u2019d Kick You<\/em>.\u201d Sources say Conan\u2019s performance is excellent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cConan has turned down a lot of movies over the years but he\u2019s showing real skill when it comes to film acting and he wants to make more movies, which is why you could see him turn up in a big project with one of his acting friends like Ryan, <strong>Timothy Olyphant<\/strong> or <strong>Will Ferrell<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gosling \u2014 the Barbie flick\u2019s hunky Ken \u2014 has quietly struck up a surprise friendship with funnyman Conan O\u2019Brien, sources say. The 44-year-old Notebook heartthrob has a reputation as one of Tinseltown\u2019s most solitary celebrities \u2014 he rarely hangs with his acting peers, preferring to hole up with longtime galpal-actress Eva Mendes, 51, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[370016,37056,354658,313198],"class_list":["post-2016849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-acting-opportunities","tag-conan-obrien","tag-eva-mendes","tag-ryan-gosling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Conan-OBrien-\u2018Showing-Real-Promise-With-Acting-Leaning-on-Pal.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}