“We had a different idea of how the character should look,” Gosling said in that interview.

“I really believed he should be 210 pounds.”

Jack Salmon was eventually played byMark Wahlberg, and Gosling lost the weight before pursuing other projects.

Ryan Gosling poses for a picture

So, where did this miscommunication come from?

Both Gosling and Jackson attribute it to different things, so it’s hard to say for sure.

I just showed up on set, and I had gotten it wrong."

Ryan Gosling at an event

I’m too young.'"

It was our blindness, the desire to make it work no matter what."

Peter Jackson at an event