Being Selective About Acting Jobs
To spend more time with his loved ones, Ryan doesn’t take every role he’s offered. In fact, he’s more selective these days and tends to steer away from particular gigs.
“I don’t really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place,” he continued to WSJ. Magazine. “This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us. The decisions I make, I make them with Eva and we make them with our family in mind first.”
Ryan suspects this shift started with his 2016 film La La Land.
“It was just sort of like, Oh, this will be fun for them, too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing,” he added before talking about how his kids were a factor in him playing Ken in 2023’s Barbie. “Their interest in Barbie and their disinterest in Ken was an inspiration. I thought, they were already making little movies about their Barbies on the iPad when it happened, so the fact that I was going off to work to make one too, we just felt like we were aligned.”