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Ryan Gosling Turned Obstacles Into Opportunities on ‘Project Hail Mary’ — with a Little Help from Julia Roberts

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Back in 2020, “The Martian” author Andy Weir sent Ryan Gosling a manuscript that hadn’t yet been published, but which he hoped the actor would respond to. When Gosling read “Project Hail Mary,” the story of a science teacher tasked with saving the world and stranded in space with only a rock-like alien for company, he felt exactly the way Weir had hoped. “It felt like this project had a knife in my ribs,” Gosling told me at a Q&A I moderated fol…

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A chance meeting with Julia Roberts gave Ryan Gosling the solution to one of his biggest challenges on the set of “Project Hail Mary.” The 45-year-old actor recently spoke about an unexpected encounter with the 58-year-old Hollywood star during the filming of the sci-fi film, in which he was asked to spend a lot of time playing opposite a rock-like alien, Rocky. “I had spent a long time playing the movie, I had tried a lot of different versions …

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If you have a problem and you can't solve it, talk to Julia Roberts, she will solve it for you, said the actor

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IndieWire broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
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