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Ryan Gosling hosts ‘SNL’ on April 143
“Ryan, you need to move on. It’s time,” Blunt told him before Gosling launched into the song again. This time, the actress went further by hitting him in the head with a (stunt) bottle. When this didn’t stop Gosling from raving about Ken, Blunt then hit him with a wooden board and proclaimed that “Ken is dead.”
Gosling reminded her that she had starred in Oppenheimer — nodding to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon created by the two films in the summer of 2023 — and asked if he ever missed it.
Blunt then began to sing wistfully about her role as Kitty in Oppenheimer to “All to Well” – joined by Gosling – as they sang about their respective films and characters, including that it was time to wish the characters “farewell”. However, Gosling managed to insert at the end that “Ken will never die!”
Elsewhere on the show, basketball star Clark appeared on “Weekend Update” and jokingly chastised Michael Che for his jokes about women’s sports. Meanwhile, Gosling revisited his famous “Close Encounter” sketch, including an appearance from the original sketch’s star, Kate McKinnon, who also starred alongside the actor in barbie.
Gosling is no stranger to SNL – having appeared as host and guest in various capacities in the past. In fact, it was one of his appearances on the show that led to him playing Ken.
In a “Weekend Update” segment in season 43, Gosling played the cousin of former cast member Alex Moffat, called “Guy Who Just Joined Soho House”. In an episode with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett Without intelligence podcast, Gerwig said the “guy who just joined Soho House” was what sparked her interest in having Gosling appear in the barbie movie.