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Selectivity regarding acting work

To spend more time with his loved ones, Ryan doesn’t accept every role he’s offered. In fact, he is now more selective and tends to avoid certain appearances.

“I don’t really take on roles that would put me in some dark place,” he continued. WSJ. Magazine. “At this moment I want to try to read the room of the house and feel that this will be better for all of us. The decisions I make, I make together with Eva, and we make them first and foremost with our family in mind.”

Ryan suspects this shift began with his 2016 film. La La Land.

“It was like, ‘Oh, they’ll have fun too, because even though they’re not coming to the show, we’re practicing piano or dancing or singing every day,'” he added, before talking about how that his children played a role in him playing Ken in 2023. Barbie. “Their interest in Barbie and lack of interest in Ken was a source of inspiration. I thought they were already making little movies about their Barbies on the iPad when this happened, so the fact that I was going to work on the same movie too, we just felt like we were one.”