In the film, Crowe and Gosling play two very mismatched detectives in Los Angeles in the 1970s, thrown together to investigate the supposed suicide of a fading, once hugely popular female porn star. As a special note Shane Black and the crew nailed the look and feel of the 70’s. Um, not really, but I do know one thing: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are very, very amusing together. Throw in, oh, a 1970s setting, a dead porn star, a daughter for the Gosling character who is Wise Beyond Her Years (as almost all little girls in movies are required to be), and a lot of gratuitous gun violence!
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“Sometimes I would suspect that he was up all night trying to think of ways to make me laugh because he just has this natural comedic gift”, he explained, adding later: “I laughed my head off all the time”.
Critics don’t seem to agree that Gosling and Crowe are schmucks.
Russell Crowe shows his amusing side as a hit man in The Nice Guys.
“We were very seriously having a conversation, while I had my trousers around my ankles in a bathroom stall, and I knew it was going to work and that we were going to have fun”. And like Black’s earlier screenwriting efforts, Lethal Weapon 1 and 2, in The Nice Guys, the momentum comes not simply by way of screeching cars and ricocheting gunplay (although there’s plenty of that), but from the banter and bickering between the two leads. And they both get upstaged at several points by Angourie Rice, a teenage actor from Australia who plays March’s daughter.
“A few days ago we were just having a chat and I said to him, ‘I just knew you were going to be a great dad when I saw you do that, ‘ because he took the time and he was gentle with her and open”, Russell explained.
After that back-and-forth, Crowe began to tell Black his reasons for why he didn’t want to make “The Nice Guys”, but Black interrupted him, saying, “Let me go first”.
Be sure to check out The Nice Guys, in theaters everywhere this weekend! You can buy it for yourself right here starting on May 19.
“Did you see this one?” he asks, showing Gosling the phone.
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What I’m trying to say is, The Nice Guys and this attractive poster deserve each other.
