Ryan Gosling
Actor and director Ryan Gosling offers more insight into the filming of his movie, "Lost River," in Detroit. It began showing in New York and Los Angeles last Friday.
Gosling, in a Q & A with BuzzFeed, talks about filming a scene at a gas station in Detroit, and he says some folks were selling "something else at the gas station" that people really wanted. We assume he's talking about drugs, but he doesn't say for sure.
Here's what he tells BuzzFeed:
One of my favorite scenes in the movie is with Matt Smith and this lady in a gas station. This gas station was the only one for like 10 blocks where we were shooting, and I think they were selling something else at the gas station, something like people really wanted. They didn’t care that we were making a movie, they just, you know, had to get it.
So there was a real tension because we were trying to shoot this film and people were really sort of upset that we were there, and at a certain point we thought, just let them in the scene, you know?
So what happened was they started sort of interacting with the actors, and Matt did this amazing job of pulling this one woman into this scene and they started dancing together — it was literally like the fantasy and the reality was sort of dancing together and really highlighted what we were trying to do.
Actor Matt Smith in "Lost River."
He also talks about how the film came together:
The Motown projects were about to be torn down, and I wanted to film them, so I got a Red camera. I started shooting them.
And then there was the Palace Theater where the Stooges first played, and that was being torn down. So I just started filming.
And then after a year I realized, I guess I’m shooting footage for a movie, and I guess I’m making a movie — this is lonely I should get some people here. So I wrote the script, and then I got the actors, and eventually we were shooting.
