Yahoo News Ryan Gosling says Blade Runner "not a hero's journey"
Ryan Gosling is spilling a few secrets about the much-anticipated Blade Runner 2049, admitting that the original movie's "blurring" of good and evil is what drew him to the project.
In the sequel to the 1982 cult movie, the La La Land star plays a new Blade Runner called Officer K who manages to track down Harrison Ford's Deckard after his disappearance 30 years prior.
Deckard's original outing a few decades back was a favourite of Ryan's, so doing the sequel seemed to be a no-brainer when he was offered the part.
Surprisingly, however, the movie was actually a big step up for the actor, who admitted that this he hadn't done a big budget movie of this scale until now.
"I try not to discriminate against budget, but they never felt right," Ryan told Entertainment Weekly. "I'm glad I waited.
"[Blade Runner] was one of the first films that I saw that I didn't know how to feel when it was over. The line between heroes and villains was so blurred. It's not a hero's journey in any way. When I was a kid that was the storyline I had seen.
"Thematically, there's just so much there - it was rich, it was melancholy, it was romantic. It's so special. So many other things have stolen ideas from it, but they could never steal its soul. I felt lucky to enter that world."
He also described working with a huge star like Harrison, recalling: "The best part is that you hang out with him and you realize that all those iconic moments from his films that you love are his - like 'I love you,' 'I know' from Star Wars, or shooting the guy in Indiana Jones.
"He's just like that all the time. Normally I'd say there are hundreds of ways to play any scene. Unless you work with Harrison and you realise there's only one great way and he's already figured it out."
As to the perennial question of whether or not Deckard is a replicant, Ford and director Ridley Scott have been arguing for decades over whether or not it's actually true.
Recalling a dinner the pair had during filming where they argued over the popular fan theory, Ryan joked that "it's kind of like a McGregor vs. Mayweather situation."
"But I wasn't there. I thought there'd be an epic battle but the truth is it turns out they like and respect each other very much. Which is great," he said.
Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Jared Leto's role of Neander Wallace in 2049 was actually originally intended for the late David Bowie before the star sadly passed away in early 2016.
Blade Runner 2049 is released in cinemas on October 7.
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