<em>The Gray Man</em> Takes the Stoic-Spy Cliché Way Too Far
Much like Brad Pitt before him, Ryan Gosling keeps falling into Hollywood's “cool guy” trap.
Stoicism has long been a powerful weapon in Ryan Gosling’s cinematic arsenal. One of his best-remembered films remains the taut 2011 thriller , in which he played an unnamed stunt driver who is cool behind the wheel but monosyllabic in conversation. As Officer K in , he was quite literally robotic, an artificial “replicant” designed to be void of emotion. In , he portrayed the astronaut Neil Armstrong as prickly and standoffish, far more ready to face his work than any interpersonal relationship. But as remote as he, has none of that.
