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After Falling In Love While “Pretending To Be A Family,” Here’s What Eva Mendes Had To Say About First Working With Ryan Gosling On “The Place Beyond The Pines”

By Ellen Durney,

2024-03-27

Today, Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are one of Hollywood’s sweetest couples , but their story began more than a decade ago on a movie set.

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0MnABX_0s6oVSj300 — Sonia Recchia / Getty Images

In case you didn’t know, Ryan and Eva fell in love while shooting their 2012 film, The Place Beyond The Pines . They welcomed their first child, Esmeralda, in 2014, and two years later, they became a family of four with a second daughter, Amada.

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Though the pair are incredibly private, Ryan previously said he never planned to have kids until he and Eva worked together, telling GQ last year: “There were moments on The Place Beyond The Pines where we were pretending to be a family, and I didn’t really want it to be pretend anymore.”

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=13xUOZ_0s6oVSj300 — “I wasn’t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her,” he told the outlet. “I realized that this would be a life I would be really lucky to have.”
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And now, Eva is looking back on her first impressions of her now-partner while working on the 2012 movie, telling Today in a new interview: “I’ve never experienced anything like that.”

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“The way he works, his commitment to his craft, how he wants to make everything as best as it can be — and that means making his costars as best as they can be,” she said of Ryan, looking back on their time on set.

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0W9CKs_0s6oVSj300 — “Unfortunately — or fortunately — there's only one Ryan,” she added, “so I pretty much stopped acting after that.”
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As you’ll probably know, Eva has moved away from movie-making in the past decade, and while talking to Today , she said the decision to scale back her acting career was a “no-brainer” once she and Ryan had kids.

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3it0tK_0s6oVSj300 — “I'm so lucky, and I was like, ‘If I can have this time with my children…’ and I still worked. I just didn't act because acting takes you on locations, [and] it takes you away,” she said.
“It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was, OK, he's going to work, and I'm going to work,” she added. “I'm just going to work here.”
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You can watch Eva’s full interview with Today here.

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