'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie Casting: Ryan Gosling Removes Himself From Christian Running? VIDEO
As Fifty Shades of Grey movie casting rumors continue to burn up the web, one of its potential suitors for the role of Christian Grey may have taken himself out of the running.
In a recent interview with The Huffington Post, Gangster Squad's Ryan Gosling said that he's ready to take a break from acting for a short while.
"I've been doing too much. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing," he said. "I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as I imagine the audience does."
Although his recent sentiment doesn't necessarily pull him out of the running for the S&M-crazed CEO part, it will surely serve to worry his loyalists.
Gosling is set to be in two new movies this spring, which will start with The Place Beyond The Pines. The flick will feature Gosling donning the role of a tattooed motorbike rider in a traveling circus, who finds out he's the father of an old fling's (Eva Mendes) baby.
Increasingly popular with the mainstream female audience, the 32-year-old has been considered a frontrunner for the role of Grey since Fifty Shades movie buzz began to circulate in 2012. In a Sept. 3 interview, author E.L. James' husband Neil Leonard accidentally revealed a potential Gosling casting to Now Magazine by stating that the "last he heard" the A-lister was the favorite for Grey.
However, while on the air with Los Angeles radio station KI-IS FM, James denied her husband's loose-lipped comment.
"No, that's completely misreported. What happened is that his local paper... reported on my husband being the inspiration for Christian Grey. Underneath it they put a picture of Ryan Gosling, as well. So that's how it came about," she said.
Although the producers have yet to attach a director to the franchise, Fifty Shades of Grey is slated for its big screen release in the summer of 2014.
