12 November,2013 12:54 AM IST | | The Centrestage Team
>> Ryan is an accomplished jazz guitarist and a fan of Chet Baker; started a band with his friend Zach Shields called Dead Man's Bones.
>> His first break came in January 1993 when open auditions were held in Montreal for The All New Mickey Mouse Club.
>> Inspired by the movie First Blood, he once took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess.
>> Was taken out of elementary school as a child and taught at home by his mother because of constant abuse from other students.
>> The producers of the 2007 film Fracture had a hard time finding Ryan Gosling to give him the film's script because he wasliving in a tent for two months at the time for reasons he won't disclose.
>> He has a tattoo on his left arm that is supposed to look likea monster's hand with a bloody heart but because Gosling inked it himself with a home tattoo kit, it turned out looking more like a cactus.u00a0