Humour and science fiction may not seem obvious bedfellows but a history of cinema will tell you different. Think Spaceballs, Mars Attacks! and Everything Everwhere All At Once to name but a few. And now Ryan Gosling is hopping on board.
The 45-year-old is both the lead actor and producer of Project Hail Mary, a space adventure film based on the 2021 Andy Weir novel of the same name.
While Gosling has showcased his comedy chops in films such as Barbie and Nice Guys, he tells the BBC he's "always struggled as an actor because I would want to bring humour to something" but has found opportunities to be funny limited with some projects.
"That's part of the reason why I wanted to produce [this film], because I felt like I needed to create an environment where these things could co-exist," he says.
Gosling says when filming previous roles "something funny would happen and they would cut and they'd say 'oh that's funny but let's go again as those funny things don't happen in life'", but he believed this wasn't necessarily true.
