{"id":235946,"date":"2026-04-22T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ryan-goslings-looks-tested-limit-of-project-hail-mary-writers-heterosexuality\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:00:10","slug":"ryan-goslings-looks-tested-limit-of-project-hail-mary-writers-heterosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ryan-goslings-looks-tested-limit-of-project-hail-mary-writers-heterosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling&apos;s looks tested &apos;limit&apos; of Project Hail Mary writer&apos;s heterosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-04-22\" datetime=\"1776816010\" pubdate=\"\">22 April 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ryan-gosling\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ryan-gosling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Gosling<\/a>\u2019s looks tested the heterosexuality of Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ryan Gosling\u2019s looks tested the heterosexuality of Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir<\/p>\n<p>The author, 53, made the admission as he praised Ryan, 45, during a panel appearance, telling an audience the actor is even \u201cmore\u201d handsome in person while discussing the film adaptation of his Project Hail Mary book, which starred the actor as a science teacher forced to become an astronaut to save Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at BookCon in New York City alongside May Cobb, Robinne Lee and Emily St. John Mandel, during a discussion focused on page-to-screen adaptations, Andy said when asked if Ryan was as handsome in reality as he is on screen: \u201cI would say more. I\u2019m straight, but we all have our limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel, moderated by Jason Blickman, featured writers whose works have recently been adapted for film or television, including The Hunting Wives, The Idea of You and Station Eleven. <\/p>\n<p>Andy\u2019s best-selling Project Hail Mary, published in 2021, was adapted into a film released earlier this year, starring Ryan as Dr Ryland Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\nAndy, who also wrote The Martian, which was adapted into a film starring Matt Damon, served as a producer on the project and also described his close involvement in its development.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: \u201cI was there for the whole shoot. I was giving notes and feedback on the screenplay before that, and then after that, I gave notes in the edits. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI was a very active participant and so that feels good because I feel like I was one of the team that made this movie, which I think came out really well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nHe also described the extent of improvisation during filming, noting actors frequently deviated from the script. <\/p>\n<p>\nAndy said: \u201cThey would go off script all the time. Ryan would go off script all the time, James Ortiz, who was the voice of Rocky\u2026 they riff off each other and stuff. I would say that maybe half of the movie is basically ad-libbed variations of what the script was telling them to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAndy added: \u201cIt was seeing the production that made me realise how much of the creative energy in the project comes just from the performance. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe actors, they don\u2019t just read the lines and perform the correct emotion, they\u2019re actually part of the creation of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/ryan-goslings-looks-tested-limit-project-hail-mary-writers-heterosexuality-1441078.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 April 2026 Ryan Gosling\u2019s looks tested the heterosexuality of Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir. Ryan Gosling\u2019s looks tested the heterosexuality of Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir The author, 53, made the admission as he praised Ryan, 45, during a panel appearance, telling an audience the actor is even \u201cmore\u201d handsome in person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14954,14961,14959,14965,14956,14960,14957,1143,14963,14955,14958,14964,6867,1997,14962],"class_list":{"0":"post-235946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-andy-weir","9":"tag-andy-weir-author","10":"tag-christopher-miller","11":"tag-christopher-miller-director","12":"tag-emily-st-john-mandel","13":"tag-james-ortiz","14":"tag-jason-blickman","15":"tag-matt-damon","16":"tag-matt-damon-films","17":"tag-may-cobb","18":"tag-phil-lord","19":"tag-phil-lord-director","20":"tag-robinne-lee","21":"tag-ryan-gosling","22":"tag-ryan-gosling-actor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}