Ryan Gosling bids farewell to Ken on SNL featuring Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt

Published April 14th, 2024 - 07:56 GMT
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt on SNL / NBC

ALBAWABA - Canadian actor Ryan Gosling took the internet by storm after his SNL (Saturday Night Live) monologue showed him bidding Barbie's Ken farewell with a cover featuring Emily Blunt of Taylor Swift’s "All Too Well" flooded social media. 

The performance included references from the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies in contrast to the recent "Barbenheimer" memes that flooded the internet months ago. Moreover, Oppenheimer and Barbie dancers took to the stage with Ryan and Emily adding to the already spectacular performance. 

Ryan Gosling bids farewell to Ken on SNL featuring Emily Blunt

This is Ryan Golsing's third SNL monologue, he stated during it that he would not poke fun at Ken but then proceeded to do so with "It’s not funny," and "Ken and I, we had to break up. We went too deep. And it’s over."

According to Variety, The song All Too Well by Taylor Swift will be featured in Gosling's upcoming movie, "The Fall Guy" and before cueing the song he stated, "Letting go feels like a breakup, and for processing a breakup, there’s really only one thing that can help: the music of the great Taylor Swift".

As Ryan Gosling went 'Full Ken", Emily Blunt responded to him on stage and jokingly said that he was "Embarrassing himself", Blunt then smacked Gosling with a glass bottle after he kept up with his Ken performance which was received with laughs from the crowd. 

Ryan Gosling

(Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt on SNL / NBC)

Gosling went on to throw shade at Blunt's Oppenheimer by referring to it as an "Inferior movie" to Barbie as Emily said "But we won everything" which resulted in Ryan coming back with "But did you win people's hearts?"

This triggered a performance between the two as mentioned above featuring a group of dancers and the Taylor Swift song. 

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