“Can you take him out of here and get another actor?” : Ryan Gosling definitely disagreed with his co-star in this iconic film

Nick Cassavetes’ iconic romantic drama Never Forget – Or Notebook For fans of the original version – adapted from the novel The pages of our love by Nicholas Sparks, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. After celebrating an entire generation, the feature film remains, two decades later, still cherished by fans of the genre, who have made it one of the highest-grossing romantic films in cinema history.

The passionate, turbulent and tragic love story of Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Ally (Rachel McAdams) made a great impression on the audience, who fell madly in love with the characters – the charisma of the actors and their on-screen chemistry. And yet, during filming, the two stars did not get along at all!

In Never forget We follow the couple’s story through the ages. Ali, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, lives in a nursing home. Noah reads the same book to her every day. This is the notebook where Ali wrote her own story when she found out about his illness so that she wouldn’t forget her feelings. Noah tirelessly reads her his own words…

in 2014, Nick Cassavetes really surprised the entire world by revealing the love-hate story between the two stars of the film, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdamsDuring an interview with VH1:I’m not going to tell this story, but they didn’t meet on set at all! not really.“

The situation is so serious that the intervention of the director was necessary.

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Ryan Gosling is trying to get rid of his partner

as revealed Nick CassavetesThe matter was so tense that Ryan Gosling The question is over Rachel McAdams change!

“Ryan came up to me, there were 150 people on stage, and he said, “Nick, come here!” He was doing a scene with Rachel and he asked me, “Can you take it from here and get another actor to read off camera for me?” what did i say He replied: “I can’t. I can’t with him. I can’t get anything.“

choice Rachel McAdams As the role was difficult, several actors were considered for the role of young Ali. That way, Jessica Biel, Ashley Judd, Reese Witherspoon and even Britney Spears – who was in the last row against Rachel McAdams – could play. Ryan Gosling But the latter was the final choice of the filmmaker, who opted for a little therapy in the face of this problematic situation.

In an attempt to improve the relationship between the two performers, Nick Cassavetes It really got the two actors talking to each other: “We were isolated in a room with the producer; They started yelling and then yelling at each other. I left the room. I smoked a cigarette and they all came out and said, “Okay, let’s do it!”“.

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From hate to love

After this successful intervention, filming resumed quietly. and interestingly Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling The love affair started in 2005.

“God bless and never forget you“, he said Ryan Gosling In a 2007 interview with GQ.It introduced me to one of the greatest loves of my life. But people hurt me and Rachel because they assume we’re like the characters in this movie. Rachel and My Love Story is much more romantic than that.“

“We didn’t throw Ming vines at each other, so it wasn’t hate, but our relationship wasn’t what you saw on screen. I would say we were both professionals“, he told Rachel McAdams to British newspaper The Times in 2013 about their on-set relationship.

“ Definitely not what any of us expected after this cinematic experience. Which goes to show that you can create chemistry on screen just by telling the audience that these two people love each other. And unless your actors are doing a really terrible job, I think people will want to see it. As an actor, you don’t have to feel that. You don’t need to feel anything. You just have to imagine it– he added in an interview with The Independent in the same year.

If the two actors left forever in 2008, Ali and Noah are more timeless than ever.

Get your tissues out, never forget to rediscover it on VOD.

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