TheMovieLore on Instagram: "Barbie (2023) Ryan Gosling has said he only truly understood Ken after spotting his daughter’s Ken doll lying face down in the mud beside a squished lemon. He snapped a photo and sent it to director Greta Gerwig with the message, “I shall be your Ken, his story must be told.” That image — discarded, dramatic, and unintentionally symbolic — became his doorway into the character’s existential crisis, shaping a performance that treats Ken’s insecurity with both satire an