and this is true

The great thing about awards - not that I have any experience with them up until this point - it seems like they’re not really for you anyway. They’re for your mom. Awards are for your mom. And my mom deserves it. ‘Cause I was a little jerk and anyone will tell you that. And she knew it and she didn’t care. She kept doing the right thing by me every single time, y’know. And she deserves to go to a fancy party and put on a fancy dress and have a bunch of fancy people tell her she did a good job. She did. I’d be scalping tickets to this show if it wasn’t for her.

‘They hated each other. And now they’re dating?’ said the film’s director, Nick Cassavetes. Once, during filming, Gosling asked if he could have a stand-in for his reaction shot because he felt McAdams was so uncooperative he couldn’t bear to look at her. Cassavetes refused. A screaming match ensued between the co-stars.

Gosling doesn’t deny this. ‘We inspired the worst in each other. It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.’

And then what? I ask.

‘I don’t know what happened ,’ he says. ‘Two years later I saw her in New York and we started getting the idea that maybe we were wrong about each other …’