Burt Reynolds was one of the biggest actors in Hollywood during the 1970s and 80s.
But his efforts to help guide one current movie star were not well-received.
And this A-list actor revealed the worst piece of advice he ever received from Burt Reynolds.
Ryan Gosling spills the beans on his relationship with Burt Reynolds
Ryan Gosling has turned into one of the leading actors in Hollywood after starring in hits like La La Land, Barbie, and First Man.
His current movie is based on the 1980s ABC series The Fall Guy, in which he stars as Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers, who was played by actor Lee Majors in the television series.
While promoting The Fall Guy on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Gosling talked about working with the late, great Burt Reynolds on the 1996 movie Frankenstein and Me.
He recalled some weird advice he received from the Hollywood legend.
“He was like, ‘Let me tell you something kid, Don’t spend your whole life stepping over diamonds to live with a cubic zirconia,'” Gosling said. “I was like, ‘I’m 13. I don’t know what any of those things are.’ I don’t know what any of that is.”
Reynolds – a legendary ladies’ man at the height of his career in the 1970s – was interested in Gosling’s mother.
“Stop looking at my mom,” Gosling exclaimed. “I’m right here.”
Jimmy Kimmel asked if he spent much time with Reynolds while working on the movie.
“It’s complicated,” Gosling explained. “Because I thought he took a shine to me. I thought he thought there was something special about me. And then I realized that I have a really beautiful mom.”
Gosling said that he was around 13 or 14 years old when he appeared in Frankenstein and Me, which was the first movie of his career.
“Secondary shine”
The actor eventually realized that Reynolds’ real interest was in his mom.
“Oh,” Kimmel said. “So, your mom was on set with you?”
“He was just kind of interested,” Gosling replied. “It was like I was getting like a secondary shine. The real shine was for my mom. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is secondary shine.’”
“How long did it take you to figure that out?” Kimmel asked.
“I wish I had found out sooner,” Gosling joked. “She loved it. Nothing happened.”
“You could have been Ryan Reynolds on the acting scene had that worked out!” Kimmel quipped.
Kimmel asked him if Reynolds was friendly to other actors on set.
“Yeah, but you know. He was being friendly. He would sign stuff all the time. He signed a Mean Machine t-shirt,” Gosling replied.
Reynolds, a former Florida State University running back, led the prison football team nicknamed the Mean Machine in the 1974 film The Longest Yard.
Gosling also shared that Reynolds warned all the kids on set not to watch his movie Deliverance.
“Which of course is the first thing we did,” Gosling recalled. “We should have listened to him.”
Ryan Gosling got an awkward introduction to showbusiness from one of the legendary leading men in Hollywood.
