{"id":706630,"date":"2026-07-23T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706630\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:49:09","slug":"what-happened-to-ryan-goslings-la-la-hand-on-the-la-la-land-poster-la-la-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706630\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Ryan Gosling\u2019s \u2018La La Hand\u2019 on the La La Land poster? | La La Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma, I have read a Vulture headline that says \u201cPut Ryan Gosling\u2019s Gay Little Wrist Back\u201d<\/a> but I forgot my password and I need answers.<\/p>\n

Some La La Land fans are outraged at a new poster released to mark the 1oth anniversary of the film by Lionsgate, which has \u201ccorrected\u201d Gosling\u2019s bent wrist in his celebrated dance pose with Emma Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What was wrong with the bent wrist? Is this gay erasure? I loved the bent wrist!<\/p>\n

As do many La La Land<\/a> fans. It represents a little flourish, a moment of individuality, a rebellion against conformity. But it\u2019s not gay erasure: Gosling himself hated it. Which is why Lionsgate revealed the new poster with the announcement: \u201cWell, Ryan, you have been heard!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Gosling hates his own hand? Say more!<\/p>\n

In a 2024 interview with the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Gosling called it the \u201cLa La Hand\u201d, saying the pose \u201chaunts\u201d him because he didn\u2019t realise the dance scene would be used for the film\u2019s poster. During filming, he said, he had ignored the advice of choreographers and flattened his hand where Stone had hers in perfect line with the rest of her arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it\u2019d be cool to put my hand like that,\u201d he told the WSJ. \u201cNow when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this? That,\u201d Gosling said, imitating a straight wrist. \u201cIt just killed the energy that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Well, Ryan, you have been heard\u2019 \u2026 the reissued poster for La La Land. Photograph: Lionsgate<\/p>\n

So is Gosling happy with the new poster?<\/p>\n

According to Lionsgate executive vice president, Justin Manfredi, who unveiled the \u201cminor adjustment\u201d at an event at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the actor loves it. \u201cWe let him know and he approved it,\u201d said Manfredi.<\/p>\n

Gosling also took things into his own hands earlier this year, fixing his La La Hand in a video with his Project Hail Mary <\/a>costar Rocky. \u201cThis is my hail Mary attempt to fix my La La Hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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And the internet has reacted with a sense of proportion, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sucks. The gay little wrist ruled. It was a reminder that, while La La Land is a movie about a straight relationship, it\u2019s also a musical, which is the gayest genre. Plus this kind of revisionism flies in the face of the nature of time. Gosling made a decision to have a gay little wrist, and now it\u2019s a part of film history. No take-backsies,\u201d Jason P Frank wrote in Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other fans feel that Gosling\u2019s original hand flex reflected something deep about the characters\u2019 mismatched relationship. \u201cI had never noticed it till today, but I do prefer the original if nothing else for the subtle hint that they are on different paths,\u201d wrote one Redditor. \u201cThey should have fixed the hand and changed the font to Papyrus,\u201d wrote another, referring to Gosling\u2019s much-loved Saturday Night Live sketches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is gonna be evidence of the Mandela Effect for so many people in five years,\u201d another added. Which pretty much sums up my main fear: we\u2019ll still be talking about this in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma, I have read a Vulture headline that says \u201cPut Ryan Gosling\u2019s Gay Little Wrist Back\u201d but I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}