Eva Mendes kept it low key at the 2024 Oscars, but still found a way to stand up for long-lasting love Ryan Gosling.
Mendes, 50, opted to skip the red carpet at the awards ceremony on Sunday, March 10, but opted to support Gosling, 43, backstage. Before the ceremony, the actress got to work Instagram to share a photo of herself outside Gosling’s dressing room, captioning the message: “Always by my man.”
After Gosling took the stage to sing his Barbie Mendes posted the Oscar-nominated song ‘I’m Just Ken’ a second one behind the scenes Instagram see where she donned the bright pink studded jacket, black cowboy hat and matching sunglasses that the actor wore during his performance.
“You brought Ken all the way to the Oscars, RG,” she wrote alongside the photo from the event. ‘Come home now, we have to put the kids to bed. π.β
“I’m Just Ken” was nominated for Best Original Song at the 96th Academy Awards and ultimately lost to another Barbie track, Billie Eilish’s βWhat was I made for?β which was the film’s only win of the night.
Barbie received a total of eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Gosling also received a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the role of Ken, a win that went to Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer.
Sunday’s ceremony concludes this year’s awards circuit for Gosling and him Barbie cast mates. Despite the film’s worldwide success β it grossed more than $1 billion at the box office β Mendes’ brother Carlo Mendeztold exclusively We weekly that Gosling’s main focus will always be raising his daughters, Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
β[They are] always, family first,β Mendez said Us of Gosling and Mendes’ lifestyle while attending the 24th Annual Academy Awards Celebration and Children Uniting Nation viewing dinner in Beverly Hills on Sunday. βWhat else do you have in life if you don’t have a family?β
Gosling and Mendes, who have been together for more than a decade, have a “great understanding” of each other, Mendez said Us, with the couple’s ‘communication’ attributed to their long-lasting romance.
βI think the key in any relationship is communication and understanding what each person is going through and just expressing that,β he said. βIt’s pretty easy when you do that. It is also communication and understanding. They are soulmates.β
A source said this exclusively earlier this month Us that Gosling’s recent Oscars have been a “dream come true,” but he’s “enjoying” the attention that comes with his time in Hollywood. βIt’s part of the job for him, but he prefers to let others shine,β the insider said. βHe doesn’t have to be the star of the show.β
While you’re talking to GQ in May 2023, Gosling admitted that all his life priorities changed when he met Mendes while co-starring in the 2012 film The place behind the Pines.
“Before I met her, I wasn’t thinking about children, but after I met Eva I realized that I just didn’t want to have children without her,” he said. βAnd there were moments The place behind the Pines where we pretended we were a family, and I didn’t really want it to be that way anymore. I realized that this would be a life I would be very lucky to have.β