Ryan Gosling told not to speak on Jay Leno

Ryan Gosling has said that he was told not to speak while conducting a TV interview. The Drive star told Tonight Show host Jay Leno about an encounter with one of his agent’s employees in which he was encouraged to be “weird” while participating in the interview.

“I ran into Lisa Shields last night,” Gosling said. “She works for my agent now and one of her jobs is to record all my late night appearances. She told me this last night, she said I’m trying too hard on talk shows.”

He continued: “She said, ‘You’re trying too hard to be cool’… I said, ‘I’m going on Jay Leno tomorrow, what should I do?’ She said, ‘I don’t know, just don’t talk. Sit there and don’t talk.’ And I was like, ‘It’s a talk show, how do you not..?’

“And then she said, ‘Do something weird like sit behind his desk and get him to sit in a chair’.”

Last week, Gosling revealed that he has always wanted to make comedy films, saying that he prefers the genre to that of drama.

The actor recently claimed that he is ready to quit acting, insisting he would like to explore other careers after 18 years in the industry.