As more and more photos leak from the set of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie—featuring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in life-sized doll drag—it’s getting increasingly difficult to separate the Barbie World from our own.At this point, that line between the two seems to have completely disappeared for Gosling.
While making the press rounds for his upcoming Netflix thriller The Grey Man (apparently he’s mockingly called a Ken Doll in the movie), the actor couldn’t help but embody his plastic boy-toy character, giving off major Ken vibes.
We’re sorry, what we meant to say was: He definitely has big-time Ken-ergy.Related: Step aside, Ken Doll! Here are 5 other live action hotties that left us swooningWhile we wish we could take credit for “Ken-ergy,” it appears to be a term the Barbie star coined himself—used to describe an aura that he apparently now embodies in his day-to-day life.In his conversation with ET‘s Lauren Zima, Gosling dropped the phrase almost out of nowhere; it nearly flew over our heads because he said it so nonchalantly, so matter-of-fact.
Watch for yourself below:So, what is Ken-ergy, exactly? How would one define it? According to the actor: “You know a Ken in your life, and then you know that that Ken has Ken-ergy.”Hmmm.