Ryan Gosling on the Sweet Way Eva Mendes Prepared Him for ‘I’m Just Ken’ Performance

Ryan Gosling prepared for his beloved performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday night with the help of his loved ones.

The “Barbie” actress told People magazine Tuesday that his longtime partner, actress Eva Mendes, and their two daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7, gave him helpful advice at the performance’s dress rehearsal before the Oscars.

“It was great,” he said. “It was really fun because they came to the dress rehearsal the day before and were in the front row. “

“They gave me some advice and some notes, all great notes,” he continued. “For me they are a very important part of this. …It was my daughters’ interest in Barbie and disinterest in Ken that got me into this in the first place. “It was lovely to have them there at the end.” (Watch Gosling’s performance in “I’m Just Ken” below.)

Gosling, who played Barbie’s male sidekick, performed the film’s hit song, “I’m Just Ken,” while wearing a hot pink suit and a pair of sunglasses.

Mendes celebrated Gosling’s performance in Instagram posts on Sunday.

She shared a short video clip of herself standing in front of Gosling’s dressing room before the ceremony with the caption: “Always with my man.”

in a follow up post After the performance, Mendes was captured wearing Gosling’s hot pink jacket, sunglasses, and a black cowboy hat.

“You took Ken to the (Oscars), RG,” he said. he captioned the post. “Now come home, we have to put the kids to bed.”

Mendes did not appear at the Oscars ceremony. Instead, Gosling walked the red carpet with her sister Mandi Gosling, her mother Donna Gosling, and her stepfather Valerio Attanasio.

Mendes continued to celebrate Gosling, who earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in “Barbie,” but ultimately did not win the award after the Oscars.

On Monday, Mendes reposted an Instagram clip from Martin Scorsese’s daughter, Francesca Scorsese, that showed the “Killers of the Flower Moon” director enjoying Gosling’s performance in “I’m Just Ken” during the ceremony. .

“(I’m) living for this big moment,” Mendes wrote in an overdue Instagram Story. “How wonderful!”

Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story misspelled Amada Gosling’s name.