Eva Mendes stored it low-key on the 2024 Oscars — however nonetheless discovered a technique to present up for longtime love Ryan Gosling.
Mendes, 50, opted to skip the crimson carpet on the Sunday, March 10, awards present, as a substitute selecting to assist Gosling, 43, from backstage. Previous to the ceremony, the actress took to Instagram to share a photograph of herself exterior Gosling’s dressing room, captioning the publish, “Always by my man.”
After Gosling took the stage to sing his Barbie Oscar-nominated music, “I’m Just 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 to the Oscars, RG,” she wrote alongside the occasion pic. “Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed. 💋.”
“I’m Just Ken” was up for Greatest Unique Tune 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 night time.
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 Position 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 world success — it introduced in additional than $1 billion on the field workplace — Mendes’ brother, Carlo Mendez, completely informed Us Weekly that Gosling’s fundamental focus will at all times be parenting his daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
“[They are] always, family first,” Mendez informed Us of Gosling and Mendes’ life-style 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 have in life if you don’t have family?”
Gosling and Mendes, who’ve been collectively for greater than a decade, have a “great understanding” of each other, Mendez informed Us, crediting the couple’s “communication” for his or her longstanding romance.
“I think the key in any relationship is communication and having an understanding of what each person is going through and just talking it out,” he mentioned. “It’s pretty easy when you do that. It’s communication and understanding as well. They’re soulmates.”
Earlier this month, a supply completely informed Us that Gosling’s latest Oscars nods have been a “dream come true,” however he doesn’t “relish” the eye that comes with being in Hollywood. “It’s part of the job for him, but he much prefers letting others shine,” the insider mentioned. “He doesn’t need to be the star of the show.”
Whereas chatting with GQ in Might 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 thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her,” he mentioned. “And there were moments on The Place Beyond the Pines where we were pretending to be a family, and I didn’t really want it to be pretend anymore. I realized that this would be a life I would be really lucky to have.”