When Burt Reynolds tried to romance Ryan Gosling's mother
Burt Reynolds was always a hit with the ladies, but the mother of this future star once turned him down.
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Sat 8 February 2025 20:15, UK
At the height of his powers, there was nobody cooler than Burt Reynolds. He was handsome, he was suave, and he was in some of the biggest box office successes of the 1970s. Smokey and the Bandit, Starting Over, Cannonball Run, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, you name it, he was in it. Oh, and he also had one of the greatest moustaches in cinematic history. That’s a winning combination.
It should come as no surprise then that Reynolds was a big hit with the ladies, as typified by a steamy appearance in Cosmopolitan. He was married twice, once to English actor Judy Carne and once to American performer Loni Anderson, and enjoyed long-term relationships with big band singer Dinah Shore and double Oscar winner Sally Field. He also briefly dated country singer Tammy Wynette, which is a bizarre pairing. If he’d had it his way, Reynolds would have added another woman’s name to that list – the mother of a future megastar.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ryan Gosling recalled working alongside Reynolds on the 1996 straight-to-video release Frankenstein and Me. “I thought he took a shine to me. I thought he thought there was something special about me,” the Canadian said (via Entertainment Weekly). “And then I realised that I have a really beautiful mom.” This was Gosling’s very first movie role, and he would have been a teenager when it was being filmed, so he was chaperoned by his mother, Donna, during the process. She clearly caught the Striptease star’s eye, because he started putting the moves on her.
“He was just kind of interested. It was like I was getting, like, a secondary shine. The real shine was for my mom,” Gosling continued. “He would sign stuff all the time – he would sign a Mean Machine shirt. He told us not to see [his 1972 film] Deliverance – all the kids – which is, of course, the first thing we did. We should’ve listened to him.” Unfortunately, none of this charitable behaviour yielded results for Reynolds, as Gosling confirmed that “nothing happened” between him and his mum.
Frankenstein and Me, a movie that barely exists on the internet, marked a low point in Reynolds’ career. His streak of box office dominance had been snapped some years earlier, and bad financial decisions had left him bankrupt and forced to take lesser roles. It wouldn’t be until his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, which came out the year after Frankenstein and Me, that things began to turn around for the ageing heartthrob.
As for Gosling, he had already found success as a part of Disney’s The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, alongside future pop sensations Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. He mostly stuck to television following Frankenstein and Me – which seems to have been a disaster for all involved – eventually returning to movies in 2000 with a small part in Remember the Titans. He and his wannabe stepdad would never get the chance to work together again prior to Reynolds’ passing in 2018.
Donna Gosling’s lack of interest in her famous suitor deprived the world of a fascinating statistic. As Kimmel pointed out to his guest, “You could have been Ryan Reynolds if that had worked out!” Please Jimmy, enough people already get the two confused as it is. You’re not helping.
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