Eva Mendes saved it low-key on the 2024 Oscars — however nonetheless discovered a approach to present up for longtime love Ryan Gosling.
Mendes, 50, opted to skip the crimson carpet on the Sunday, March 10, awards present, as a substitute selecting to assist Gosling, 43, from backstage. Previous to the ceremony, the actress took to Instagram to share a photograph of herself exterior Gosling’s dressing room, captioning the publish, “All the time by my man.”
After Gosling took the stage to sing his Barbie Oscar-nominated track, “I’m Simply Ken,” Mendes posted a second behind-the-scenes Instagram snap the place she donned the brilliant pink-studded go well with jacket, black cowboy hat and matching sunnies that the actor wore throughout his efficiency.
“You took Ken all the way in which to the Oscars, RG,” she wrote alongside the occasion pic. “Now come residence, we have to put the children to mattress. 💋.”
“I’m Simply Ken” was up for Greatest Authentic Music on the 96th Academy Awards, in the end dropping out to a different Barbie observe, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made for?” which was the movie’s solely win of the evening.
Barbie obtained eight nominations in complete, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Tailored Screenplay, Greatest Manufacturing Design and Greatest Costume Design. Gosling additionally obtained a Greatest Actor in a Supporting Position nomination for the position of Ken, a win that went to Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer.
Sunday’s ceremony wraps up this yr’s awards circuit for Gosling and his Barbie castmates. Regardless of the movie’s international success — it introduced in additional than $1 billion on the field workplace — Mendes’ brother, Carlo Mendez, solely informed Us Weekly that Gosling’s principal focus will at all times be parenting his daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
“[They are] at all times, household first,” Mendez informed Us of Gosling and Mendes’ life-style whereas attending the Youngsters Uniting Nation’s twenty fourth Annual Academy Awards Celebration and Viewing Dinner in Beverly Hills on Sunday. “What else do you could have in life for those who don’t have household?”
Gosling and Mendes, who’ve been collectively for greater than a decade, have a “nice understanding” of each other, Mendez informed Us, crediting the couple’s “communication” for his or her longstanding romance.
“I believe the important thing in any relationship is communication and having an understanding of what every particular person goes by way of and simply speaking it out,” he mentioned. “It’s fairly simple if you try this. It’s communication and understanding as effectively. They’re soulmates.”
Earlier this month, a supply solely informed Us that Gosling’s current Oscars nods have been a “dream come true,” however he doesn’t “relish” the eye that comes with being in Hollywood. “It’s a part of the job for him, however he a lot prefers letting others shine,” the insider mentioned. “He doesn’t should be the star of the present.”
Whereas chatting with GQ in Might 2023, Gosling admitted that each one of his life priorities modified when he met Mendes whereas costarring in 2012’s The Place Past the Pines.
The 2024 awards season got here to a detailed with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Nominations had been introduced in January, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer incomes probably the most nods. Amongst its 13 nominations are Greatest Image, Greatest Director, Greatest Tailored Screenplay and Greatest Actor for Cillian Murphy. (It gained greater than some other […]
“I wasn’t fascinated with youngsters earlier than I met her, however after I met Eva, I noticed that I simply didn’t need to have youngsters with out her,” he mentioned. “And there have been moments on The Place Past the Pines the place we had been pretending to be a household, and I didn’t really need it to be fake anymore. I noticed that this is able to be a life I might be actually fortunate to have.”
