Saturday, April 13, promoting his movie The Fall Guy. “Don’t worry, I’m not gonna make any jokes about Ken,” he teased at the top of the show, referring to his character from 2023’s Barbie. “Because it’s not funny. Ken and I … we had to break up.”Gosling said he got in “too deep” with Ken, teasing that leaving the character behind felt like the end of a relationship.
“And for processing a breakup, there’s really only one thing that can help,” he continued. “The music of the great Taylor Swift.”Instead of Swift’s iconic scarf, Gosling sang about leaving Ken’s rollerblades at Barbie’s house. “Oh that sweet definition of my washboard abs / Singing into Indigo Girls in the car with Babs,” he continued. “If I said I was going fine, you know I’d be lying / ‘Cause I was just Ken and now I’m just Ryan.”
The ballad was soon interrupted by Gosling’s Fall Guy costar Emily Blunt, who entered to thunderous applause. “Look at you, you’re Kenning right now. And I hate that there’s even a verb,” she said, telling Gosling he was “embarrassing” himself and encouraging him to “move on.
