Ryan Gosling showed up to the 2024 Oscars accompanied by three close family members: his mom, his sister, and his stepdad. But once again on this year’s award circuit, we did not get an appearance from his wife, Eva Mendes.
Despite our disappointment, it’s really no surprise that Mendes was not part of the red-carpet family gathering, as she and Gosling have walked only one red carpet together: in 2012, when they attended the premiere of their film The Place Beyond the Pines.
After they got together and started a family, Mendes stepped away from acting to focus on raising their kids; so these days, when Gosling attends his Hollywood events, Mendes and their daughters, Esmerelda, nine, and Amada, seven, support him from afar.
And while she skipped the show, Mendes was there for her husband at rehearsal the day before the Oscars ceremony this year, and even shared a clip of herself in his dressing room, and later, a photo of herself wearing the fabulous outfit he wore to perform “I’m Just Ken.”
“Always by my man,” she captioned the first post on Instagram. “You took Ken all the way to the Oscar’s, RG. Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed. 💋,” she wrote in the other.
Gosling told People at the premiere of The Fall Guy at SXSW in Austin Tuesday, that his wife and daughters supported him and even gave him notes ahead of the show. “It was so fun because they came to the dress rehearsal the day before and so they were in the front row,” he said.
“They gave me some tips and some notes, all great notes,” he continued. “They are such a huge part of this for me... it was my girls’ interest in Barbie and disinterest in Ken that got me into this in the first place. It was beautiful to have them there at the end.”
Last year, Mendes explained why she doesn’t accompany her husband to his grand Hollywood events anymore.
After sharing an Instagram clip of them onscreen together in The Place Beyond the Pines, Mendes responded to a commenter who said they hoped to see her on the red carpet with him on his Barbie press tour.
“What a cool comment, thank you,” she wrote in response. “But we don’t do those things together.”
She added: “Like these photos I’ve been posting, I’m only comfortable posting because it’s already out there.”
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In a follow-up comment on the same post, Mendes noted she’d appeared on the red carpet only once with her beau, back when they did press for Pines. “Oh wait -for those who may catch me in a ‘lie’ -we only were on the red carpet together once when promoting this film,” she wrote.
When asked to clarify why she doesn’t feel comfortable posting photos of herself and Gosling together, she wrote, “By ‘not comfortable,’ I mean exposing our very private life that we value. I’m still dying to do another movie with him though…♥️.”
Rosa Sanchez is the senior news editor at Harper's Bazaar, working on news as it relates to entertainment, fashion, and culture. Previously, she was a news editor at ABC News and, prior to that, a managing editor of celebrity news at American Media. She has also written features for Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets.
