There aren’t many Hollywood actors who’ve starred in a musical comedy, then a cyber-punk thriller, followed by a historical biopic the same way Ryan Gosling has. Consecutively and in three short years. His range as an actor writs large as he moves from a laconic jazz musician to a hard-nosed LAPD officer-slash-blade runner to a young Neil Armstrong with tacit fearlessness.
But the movies that reveal a little more about who—or Gosling would rather be, are the high-octane productions like and , where he spends a disproportionate amount of time behind the wheel (or handlebar). With this natural affinity for motorsports and automobiles, the actor is perfectly at home in
