Ryan Gosling Is Secretly an Amazing Pie Baker Thanks to His Mom

Barbie is sad that Ken hasn’t baked her a pie.

Barbie costars Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie dished on their secret skills in an interview with W Magazine.

“I make a hell of a pie,” Gosling answered, causing Robbie to gasp.

The Blade Runner 2049 star, 43, continued to explain that his go-to flavor is raspberry and that he got into baking because of his mother, Donna. “My mom used to bake as a side hustle, and I’ve been lucky enough to get the pie gene," he said.

Robbie, 33, couldn’t hide her shock, and pain, about Gosling’s talent. “I feel hurt that you’ve never made me one,” she joked.

Gosling is no amateur, either. “I flute my crust too, so don’t let anyone tell you that I don’t!” he laughed. "It's where you thumb the edges and you make like a nice little, almost like a braid."

Gosling’s longtime partner Eva Mendes has confirmed Gosling’s culinary skills in the past, most recently telling PEOPLE in 2022 that the La La Land star is a wiz in the kitchen.

"Ryan's the cook. He's an incredible cook," she said of Gosling. "I think that there's a really nice balance to 'you cook, I clean.' And it just works for us."

Mendes told followers on Instagram in 2020 of her significant other’s skills in the kitchen, along with her lack thereof. 

“Ryan is an amazing chef AND baker,” Mendes responded to a commenter who had asked if she and Gosling cook at all. “For real. Incredible. No joke.”

“I’m not sure that what I do is cooking,” she admitted in the comment. “Its more like steaming veggies and juicing and making rice. [Ryan] really cooks. I survive.”

In Gosling's W Magazine interview, which was posted on YouTube on Wednesday, he also recalled his first thoughts and fears about playing Ken. 

He remembered thinking that “this is the hardest part [he’ll] ever play,” which Robbie was surprised to hear.

“How do you approach playing a 70-year-old crotchless doll?” he explained. “There’s no research you can do for that, there’s no one you can shadow, there’s no documentaries you can watch, there’s no books written about it.”

Robbie shared her own secrets in the interview.

“I would never not cry in The Notebook,” she said of Gosling's 2004 movie. “It doesn’t matter how many times I see it. I bawl my eyes out. In fact, I stop halfway, before it gets to the sad stuff. I’d rather watch the first half 50 times over.”

Robbie and Gosling join fellow actors like Natalie Portman, Robert Downey Jr. and Zac Efron as cover stars for W Magazine’s Best Performances portfolio, on stands Feb. 13.