While speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2007, Ryan Gosling recalled falling behind his classmates because he didn’t even know how to read while they had already advanced to more complex skills. The Oscar nominee couldn’t understand certain lessons but passed through years because of the school’s grace. During a 2011 chat with Company magazine (via HuffPost), Gosling also detailed how he was suspended from school in the first grade after casually chucking around steak knives during lunch in a misguided attempt to replicate a scene from “Rambo.”
Nowadays, of course, Gosling has been more than “Kenough” for us numerous times, but back then, he didn’t feel like it, so he had to act out to get female attention. In a 2007 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the “Barbie” star explained, “I was always picking fights. Because I thought that was what the girls would like.” Gosling continued, “I’d pick on the toughest guys because the girls liked them. So if I beat them up, the girls would like me. But it never worked.”
In fact, the youngster’s recklessness often landed him in hot water, to the extent that his nickname was “Trouble.” In 2004, Gosling informed The New York Times that when he wasn’t starting fights, he was getting bullied for his learning issues and coming home bruised and bleeding. On one such occasion, the actor’s mom encouraged him to give the bullies a taste of their own medicine.
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