{"id":649077,"date":"2026-05-17T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:36:07","slug":"peter-jackson-fired-ryan-gosling-on-lovely-bones-for-gaining-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649077\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson Fired Ryan Gosling on Lovely Bones For Gaining Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeter Jackson<\/a> is finally weighing in on Ryan Gosling<\/a>\u2018s infamous recasting in \u201cThe Lonely Bones,\u201d the director\u2019s 2009 adaptation of Alice Sebold\u2019s novel. Gosling was originally cast as the father of Saoirse Ronan\u2019s lead character, but revealed\u00a0to THR<\/a>\u00a0in 2010 that he was fired from the movie after he gained 60 pounds for the role without Jackson\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a conversation in Cannes (via Entertainment<\/a> Weekly) after receiving an Honorary Palme d\u2019Or, Jackson was asked about Gosling\u2019s revelation and spoke candidly about the decision to drop him from the movie. Mark Wahlberg was then cast in the role.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI won\u2019t talk about any particular examples of actors because it\u2019s a personal, private thing and it\u2019s not their fault,\u201d Jackson began. \u201cAnytime we recast an actor, it\u2019s actually our fault because we didn\u2019t get the casting right and we cast the wrong person for a role. It\u2019s not because they did anything wrong. So, I\u2019m not going to talk about individuals, but you just got to realize that what you were imagining isn\u2019t really quite happening, which means that we got it wrong and so we take full responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson continued, \u201cRyan is a fantastic actor, as we know. Films are a chemistry both on camera and behind the camera. They\u2019re chemistry in terms of what the actor conveys to the audience of the film. It\u2019s just a complicated sort of amalgam of communication of how somebody gels into a group of people, into a story, into a character. It\u2019s complicated and usually you try very hard when you\u2019re planning the film, casting it, trying to get that gel kind of right, but occasionally we make our own mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to THR in 2010, Gosling said, \u201cWe had a different idea of how the character should look. I really believed he should be 210 pounds. We didn\u2019t talk very much during the preproduction process, which was the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a huge movie, and there\u2019s so many things to deal with, and he couldn\u2019t deal with the actors individually. I just showed up on set, and I had gotten it wrong. Then I was fat and unemployed,\u201d Gosling also quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaoirse Ronan<\/a>\u00a0appeared on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast in 2024 and remembered the dramatic casting switch. While Jackson never started filming \u201cThe Lovely Bones<\/a>\u201d with Gosling, Ronan revealed the cast had already \u201cdone some prep\u201d by the time Gosling got fired. Ronan had bonded with Gosling and was sad to see him go.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think I just loved Ryan and his dog, George, and I was just sad that, you know, he wasn\u2019t gonna be around,\u201d Ronan said. \u201cBut I think the reasons why they parted were totally valid, and I\u2019ve spoken to both [Gosling and Jackson] now and it happens. Do you know what I mean? It\u2019s not personal, necessarily. It\u2019s like sometimes you\u2019re just not on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMark was able to step in, and he was a father,\u201d Ronan added. \u201cHe was a father to, like, I don\u2019t know, three kids? He probably had an experience of that that Ryan felt he didn\u2019t. Ryan was like 27. He was young.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson is finally weighing in on Ryan Gosling\u2018s infamous recasting in \u201cThe Lonely Bones,\u201d the director\u2019s 2009…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32176,88,106429,14069,280003],"class_list":["post-649077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-peter-jackson","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-the-lovely-bones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}