Gosling Confirms Split From McAdams
Posted October 18, 2007 12:00 pm.
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It was a Hollywood pairing that seemed too good to be true – and apparently it was.
Fans of the 2004 drama The Notebook, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, thought it perfect that the film’s young Canadian stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams became a real-life couple afterward.
But now that the two have confirmed they’ve broken up Gosling says he’s getting berated in the street for it. He told magazine GQ that women are mad at him for allowing her to get away.
“A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me,” he told the publication. “(She was) like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad.
“Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs. Instead we’re consoling everybody else.”
The actor, who received an Academy Award nomination for Half Nelson and stars in the upcoming Lars and the Real Girl, seemed to find it unfortunate that people associate him and McAdams with their Notebook characters.
“God bless ‘The Notebook’. It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie,” Gosling said. “Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”
McAdams is soon to appear in The Time Traveler’s Wife opposite Eric Bana.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in a scene from 2004’s The Notebook
