Ryan Gosling Reveals Surprising La La Land Scene He'd Film Over Again: I 'Killed the Energy'

Despite scoring a Best Actor Oscar nomination for La La Land, there's still one scene that Ryan Gosling might do over, if he had the chance.

The Fall Guy actor, 43, admitted in an interview for WSJ. Magazine's June/July issue that the way his hand looks on the movie's poster — bent, as opposed to straight up in the air like costar Emma Stone's — has always bothered him.

"There's a moment that haunts me where we're dancing, Emma and I. And I didn't know this would become the poster for the movie," Gosling said, sighing.

He recalled of the moment before filming, "We were supposed to have our hands up, and I thought it'd be cool to put my hand like that."

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And while "everyone told me it wasn't cool," the Barbie actor told WSJ. Magazine that he "was sure that [his bent hand gesture] was cooler than [having his hand straight up]."

"Now when I look at it and I have to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this? That," Gosling added mimicking the gestures. "It just killed the energy that way."

"It's just a lazy… I call it 'La La Hand,' " he joked.

After the interviewer told Gosling it's called "hamburger hands" in the dance world, she asked whether his dance background was an asset in the role.

"Well, I thought it would help in La La Land," he said. "Then, of course, Hamburger Hands Gosling over here … It didn't help me at all in the end."

In the same interview for his cover story, Gosling said La La Land "was the first" movie he did after making the decision not to "take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place."

"This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us," explained the actor. "The decisions I make, I make them with [longtime partner Eva Mendes] and we make them with our family in mind first.”

Since welcoming his two daughters with Mendes — Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 8 — Gosling has taken on roles that have run the gamut from musical to comedy and more.

“I think La La Land was the first,” he told WSJ. Magazine. “It was just sort of like, oh, this will be fun for them, too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing."

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