Eva Mendes stored it low-key on the 2024 Oscars — however nonetheless discovered a strategy to present up for longtime love Ryan Gosling.
Mendes, 50, opted to skip the pink carpet on the Sunday, March 10, awards present, as an alternative selecting to help Gosling, 43, from backstage. Previous to the ceremony, the actress took to Instagram to share a photograph of herself outdoors Gosling’s dressing room, captioning the publish, “At all times by my man.”
After Gosling took the stage to sing his Barbie Oscar-nominated music, “I’m Simply Ken,” Mendes posted a second behind-the-scenes Instagram snap the place she donned the brilliant pink-studded go well with jacket, black cowboy hat and matching sunnies that the actor wore throughout his efficiency.
“You took Ken all the way in which to the Oscars, RG,” she wrote alongside the occasion pic. “Now come residence, we have to put the children to mattress. 💋.”
“I’m Simply Ken” was up for Greatest Unique Track on the 96th Academy Awards, finally shedding out to a different Barbie monitor, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made for?” which was the movie’s solely win of the evening.
Barbie obtained eight nominations in complete, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Tailored Screenplay, Greatest Manufacturing Design and Greatest Costume Design. Gosling additionally obtained a Greatest Actor in a Supporting Function nomination for the position of Ken, a win that went to Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer.
Sunday’s ceremony wraps up this 12 months’s awards circuit for Gosling and his Barbie castmates. Regardless of the movie’s international success — it introduced in additional than $1 billion on the field workplace — Mendes’ brother, Carlo Mendez, completely informed Us Weekly that Gosling’s major focus will all the time be parenting his daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
“[They are] all the time, household first,” Mendez informed Us of Gosling and Mendes’ way of life whereas attending the Youngsters Uniting Nation’s twenty fourth Annual Academy Awards Celebration and Viewing Dinner in Beverly Hills on Sunday. “What else do you’ve got in life in the event you don’t have household?”
Gosling and Mendes, who’ve been collectively for greater than a decade, have a “nice understanding” of each other, Mendez informed Us, crediting the couple’s “communication” for his or her longstanding romance.
“I believe the important thing in any relationship is communication and having an understanding of what every individual goes by means of and simply speaking it out,” he mentioned. “It’s fairly straightforward while you try this. It’s communication and understanding as properly. They’re soulmates.”
Earlier this month, a supply completely informed Us that Gosling’s current Oscars nods have been a “dream come true,” however he doesn’t “relish” the eye that comes with being in Hollywood. “It’s a part of the job for him, however he a lot prefers letting others shine,” the insider mentioned. “He doesn’t must be the star of the present.”
Whereas talking to GQ in Could 2023, Gosling admitted that every one of his life priorities modified when he met Mendes whereas costarring in 2012’s The Place Past the Pines.
“I wasn’t serious about children earlier than I met her, however after I met Eva, I noticed that I simply didn’t need to have children with out her,” he mentioned. “And there have been moments on The Place Past the Pines the place we have been pretending to be a household, and I didn’t actually need it to be fake anymore. I noticed that this could be a life I’d be actually fortunate to have.”