What happened to Ryan Gosling’s ‘La La Hand’ on the La La Land poster?
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Prefer the Guardian on Google Emma, I have read a Vulture headline that says “Put Ryan Gosling’s Gay Little Wrist Back” but I forgot my password and I need answers.
Adding to this, Some La La Land followers are outraged at a new poster rolled out to mark the 1oth anniversary of the movie by Lionsgate, which has “corrected” Gosling’s bent wrist in his celebrated dance pose with Emma Stone .
Meanwhile, What was wrong with the bent wrist? Is this gay erasure? I loved the bent wrist!
Notably, As do many La La Land followers. It represents a little flourish, a moment of individuality, a rebellion against conformity. But it’s not gay erasure: Gosling himself hated it. Which is why Lionsgate revealed the new poster with the announcement: “Well, Ryan, you have been heard!”
As per the latest buzz, Read more In a 2024 interview with the Wall Street Journal , Gosling called it the “La La Hand”, saying the pose “haunts” him because he didn’t realise the dance scene would be used for the movie’s poster. During filming, he shared, he had ignored the advice of choreographers and flattened his hand where Stone had hers in perfect line with the rest of her arm.
In further updates, “I thought it’d be cool to put my hand like that,” he told the WSJ. “Now when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this? That,” Gosling shared, imitating a straight wrist. “It just killed the energy that way.”
On top of that, View image in fullscreen ‘Well, Ryan, you have been heard’ … the reissued poster for La La Land. Photograph: Lionsgate So is Gosling happy with the new poster?
According to Lionsgate executive vice president, Justin Manfredi, who unveiled the “minor adjustment” at an event at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the star loves it. “We let him know and he approved it,” shared Manfredi.
Source: The Guardian