Ryan Gosling set the Oscars stage on fire with “I’m Just Ken”

Surrounded in particular by Mark Ronson, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Slash, the actor put on the show.

Thing promised, thing due: Ryan Gosling brought glitter to the lives of the Oscars audience last night in Los Angeles, performing “I'm Just Ken” on the stage of the 96th ceremony.

The actor was surrounded by his friends from barbie : the composer Mark Ronson, at the origin of the hit with him and Greta Gerwig, the other performers of Ken Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Kingsley Ben-Adir, as well as the guitarist Slash and around sixty dancers, dressed in pink and black suits and a cowboy hat.

Barbie: behind the scenes of “I'm just Ken” with Ryan Gosling (video)

The star caused a sensation by performing this musical comedy number paying homage to the famous “Diamonds a Girl's Best Friend”performed by Marilyn Monroe in Men prefer blondesin 1953. During the show, he also met his playing partner La La LandEmma Stone, in the audience, or even the entire flagship team of Barbie: Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig and America Ferrera… We see him holding back a laugh several times when seeing the magnitude of the spectacle and the reaction of the people around him.

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Satisfied by all this “Kenergie”the public did not, however, witness the triumph of barbie, nor Ken, for the rest of the evening. The award for best film, for which was named the biggest hit of 2023, went to Oppenheimerby Christopher Nolan, for best screenplay adapted to American Fictionby Cord Refferson, and that of best supporting actor to Robert Downey Jr. No prizes for sets or costumes either, categories in which Poor creatures took it all.

If Gosling also had a chance at the Oscars for this song, it was ultimately his colleagues Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell who triumphed for “What Was I Made For”. They too performed this piece on the Oscars stage, and they moved the spectators present, in particular the entire cast of barbie.

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