Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone's Chemistry | La La Land Featurette

Emma and Ryan's previous film history, in a way, is a starting off point with this movie, the same way that the musical as a genre is a starting off point. It's pure lunacy. This is the third time Ryan and Emma have been on screen together. Each time they've been on screen before, that chemistry is palpable. You just point a camera at the two of them and you believe that they're falling in love. You again. What's your name? Mia. I guess I'll see you in the movies. Part of the appeal to me about Ryan and Emma together in the movie was that you know they're going to be a couple. I just heard you play and I wanted to see. It's pretty strange that we keep running into each other. Maybe it means something. I doubt it. Yeah, I don't think so. You have two actors who have an on-screen chemistry that I think is one for the ages. It's like Catherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy or Fred and Ginger or Bogart and Bacall. There hasn't been a contemporary screen couple that's had that kind of chemistry. Think back to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. There's something alive between the two of them. Uh, hi Greg. They have such a relationship and a rapport and a charisma. George Michael! They feed off each other in a really magical way. Can you grab mine? My what? Would you be able to grab mine? My keys? I can't. Sorry, can you grab my keys? Oh. Please? Oh, there we go. Thank you. There isn't anyone who's watched any of their films and come away not saying they were so great together. And the idea here was to embrace the old Hollywood-ness of an iconic screen coupling that we see develop over the course of a few films. That's the window that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman looked out of in Casablanca. Wow. Yeah. I can't believe you worked right across the street from that. I love it. That kind of larger-than-life star system idea of old Hollywood I find incredibly romantic. Where you weren't really going to see the characters that Bogart and Picard were playing, you were going to see Bogart and Picard. Ryan and Emma to me are the closest that we have today to that. Look at these fellas. Every one of these guys is composing, they're rearranging. It's very, very exciting. Jazz is dying, man. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, let it die. It had its time. Well, not on my watch. There's no substitute for that kind of respect, admiration, and love. They have a genuine love for each other, which I think comes through really clearly on screen. There's no one like Emma, and I think she's one of a kind. She's different than any other actress out there, and so you can see, obviously, people have embraced that. She's so talented. Her singing is incredible. She's an amazing dancer. She's just an all-around great performer. Ryan brings so much, but the thing that I was most excited by is how funny he is. He's really, really, really funny in this movie. You're fired. Ryan, that's what you're saying, but it's not what you mean. What you mean is... You're fired. Play the set list. No, I'm saying it's too late. It's a warning. What planet are you from? Don't fire me. You're done. Don't fire me. I'm sorry, Seth. It's Christmas. Yeah, I see the decorations. He can dance. He can sing. He's kind of got it all. Is this the start of something wonderful? They play the piano stunningly well. I think that's why they wanted to work together when they read the script. It sort of made a lot of sense for them to be playing these roles together because, what, I think they knew they just couldn't inherently bring to it. Where are we? I don't know. I wanted to strip away, as the movie went on, some of the veneer and the gloss that we normally associate with Ryan and Emma when they're together and try to show the pain that's underneath, the beating heart that's underneath, the actual kind of spiky, electric emotions coursing through their veins as human beings. You're gonna be on tour for, what, months now, years? Yeah, I don't... This is it. Why aren't you starting your club? You said yourself no one wants to go to a club called Chicken on a Stick. So change the name. Well, no one likes jazz. Not even you. I do like jazz now because of you. And this is what I thought you wanted me to do. I think we both feel lucky to be actors, to have the opportunities that we have, and we're both equally as passionate about embracing the opportunity and trying to get the most out of it. And so I think we kind of meet on that level. Yeah. Look at Louis Armstrong. You know, he could have just played the marching band charts that he was given. What did he do? Well, he made history, didn't he? Well, I'm gonna stop auditioning and I'm gonna make history instead. Well, my work is done here.