How Eva Mendes Brother Feels Having Ryan Gosling As His Bro-In-Law
Carlo Mendez attends the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Ryan Gosling poses prior to 'In Conversation with the Barbie cast' at BFI Southbank on December 08, 2023 in London, England.
Eva Mendes might not be seen in public often with Ryan Gosling, but that doesn’t mean their relationship isn’t tight-knit. Eva Mendes’ younger brother Carlo Mendez acted as Gosling’s date at the 2024 SAG Awards two months ago. Mendez, who is also an actor, was asked by his sister if he wanted to go with her husband to the awards show.
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Carlo told E! News it didn’t take much convincing for him to consider going. “It was awesome,” he told the publication. Sitting next to Ryan at the Barbie table during the awards show, Carlo was absolutely star-struck.
Feeling “like a kid in a candy store,” Carlo was excited to see Robert Downey Jr. and Margot Robbie seated nearby. He had to remind himself that he was also a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild. “Inside, I’m like [deep breath], relax, you’re an actor, too,” Carlo said. You belong here with them.”
But while it was his first time attending the SAG Awards, he is comfortable around Gosling. He gushed to E! that Gosling is an “awesome, funny, down-to-earth guy.” Carlo, who stars in the romantic thriller Demise, says there’s more he can say about the actor, who he’s learning a lot from.
After Ryan connected with Eva while making 2011’s The Place Beyond the Pines and met her family, “he immediately fit in,” Carlos said. “He loves the whole Latin lifestyle, the salsa, the Spanish, the Cuban — he loves all that stuff. So, he fit in like a glove.” Carlo adds that the La La Land star gets along well with Eva’s dad Juan Carlos Méndez and mom Eva Perez Suarez. Carlo notes that this is not a small thing for the family-centric actress, who paused her acting career for over a decade to focus on raising her and Goslings daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
As we previously reported, Mendes explained why she and Gosling don’t attend Hollywood events together. “We don’t do those things together. Like these photos I’ve been posting, I’m only comfortable posting because it’s already out there.”
Besides Gosling’s upcoming film The Fall Guy releasing in theaters on May 3, his next role is on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live as host. He will be this week’s host (April 13), with musical guest Chris Stapleton. Watch him adorably “practice” how he will introduce himself to the “Cold” singer-songwriter outside of his dressing room below.
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Ryan Gosling's Glow-up Over the Last 20 Years
Ryan Thomas Gosling was born in Ontario, Canada, on November 12, 1980. As a child, he watched the 1990 action drama Dick Tracy and was inspired to become an actor. However, Gosling “hated” being a child, was bullied in elementary school, and had no friends until he was 14 or 15. In the first grade, he was heavily influenced by the action film First Blood, and took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess, which led to a suspension.
Gaining Confidence Through Performing
Gosling performed in front of audiences from an early age, encouraged by his older sister being a performer. He and his sister sang together at weddings, he performed with his uncle’s Elvis Presley tribute act, Elvis Perry, and he took ballet. Performing boosted Gosling’s self-confidence. Another interesting fact about his childhood growing up in Canada is that he developed an accent to sound like Marlon Brando because he thought having a Canadian accent did not sound “tough.” In 1993, 12-year-old Gosling auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club. He was given a two-year contract as a Mouseketeer and moved to Orlando, Florida, joining fellow cast members Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake. Gosling has credited the experience with instilling in them “this great sense of focus.”
Following the show’s cancellation in 1995, Gosling returned to Canada, where he continued to appear on television series like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps. Gosling dropped out of high school at 17 to focus on his acting career and a year later, he moved to New Zealand to film Young Hercules as the show’s title character. Following his work on the show, Gosling wanted to transition into film and not accept any more television work. He started out with indie films in the early 2000s before landing the lead in 2004’s The Notebook alongside Rachel McAdams. Since then, Gosling has achieved widespread recognition with films such as Blue Valentine, Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Place Beyond the Pines, La La Land, and Blade Runner 2049.
Keep scrolling to see how Gosling has glowed up, glowed down, then glowed right back up again over the last 20 years:
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