Andrew Garfield and Ryan Reynolds have candidly reflected on their spontaneous kiss during the 2017 Golden Globes, acknowledging that it may have been “insensitive” towards Ryan Gosling’s winning moment.
The pair recently teamed up for Variety’s Actors on Actors series to chat about their current projects and hadn’t met since the buzz-worthy event. Garfield, now 41, discussed his role in the upcoming drama We Live in Time, starring alongside Florence Pugh.
Reynolds, on the other hand, talked about his latest action-packed film, Deadpool and Wolverine, in which he reprises his role as the wise-cracking superhero.
As their conversation wrapped up, Reynolds pointed out that their last encounter was when they shared a kiss at the awards show. Garfield expressed retrospectively: “I also, retrospectively, felt a little bit insensitive toward Ryan’s moment.”
Reynolds concurred, saying: “I did too,” and added with relief: “But I was grateful it was in such a wide shot, and nobody actually noticed until later, and it was actually kind of perfect, and then you kind of went, ‘Oh, oh, oh,” reports the Mirror.
Their impromptu lip-lock occurred just as Ryan Gosling was being honoured with the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy award for La La Land.
Gosling, along with his co-star Emma Stone, who also won for La La Land, was shown the footage post-ceremony.
Despite the potential for awkwardness, Gosling appeared unbothered when he spoke to Entertainment Tonight, commenting: “I mean, I’m happy for them, honestly.”
Nevertheless, Garfield revealed that he had offered an apology to the Barbie star for overshadowing his award-winning moment with the unexpected kiss.
He stated, “I was able to apologise to Ryan about that, thankfully, and say, ‘I’m so, so sorry’.”
In a prior agreement, if Reynolds had won an award in the category where he was nominated for his part in Deadpool, Garfield, and Reynolds planned to share a smooch, surprising onlookers who might have anticipated a celebratory kiss between Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively. Despite not winning, the actors went ahead with their comical lip-lock.
Reynolds humorously remarked later that instead of offering apologies related to the incident, he took a more mischievous route by saying, “I actually just egged his [Gosling’s] house, which is super childish to do, but I didn’t feel so great about losing.”
Variety’s Actors on Actors video series is available to watch on YouTube