In a new movie The Place Beyond the Pines Ryan Gosling plays carnival performer Luke who turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child. As a way to display Luke’s questionable lifestyle choices they used various tattoos on Gosling’s body and face. They were all fake of course but Ryan admitted that he really hated the one on his face – a dagger dripping blood by his left eye.

“We wanted to make the tattoos look a mess, from someone who lived a life of not thinking things through and making bad decisions. When I went for the tattoo, I thought, this is stupid, this is dumb, I can’t do this,” the actor told Metro. He even spoke with the director Derek Cianfrance about it but he didn’t show any sympathy so Ryan just had to put up with the tattoo that bothered him so much.

“Derek was like ‘Well, that’s how most people feel about their face tattoos’. I didn’t even want to look at myself in the mirror. When I was holding Tony Pizza, the kid who plays our child, I just felt ashamed this person I created was his father,” Gosling said.

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