Ryan Gosling's past co-star hookups as he stars in The Gray Man

Before his love story with Eva Mendes began, Ryan Gosling had somewhat of a reputation for getting into relationships with his co-stars.

For his role as a CIA agent in trouble in The Gray Man, Ryan is taking on a different role than the romantic comedies he is widely known for.

Based on the novel by Mark Greaney, the movie also stars Bond girl Ana de Armas, and Marvel favourite Chris Evans. Ryan is also set to star in the new Barbie film alongside Margot Robbie, due to be released in 2023.

So who has the La La Land star dated over his career?

Sandra Bullock

Arguably most famous former partner is Sandra Bullock, who is 16 years older than him, which may have been a contributing reason as to why they didn’t confirm the romance at the time.

However, eight years later Ryan confirmed that they had been a couple and that she was one of the “greatest girlfriends” he had ever had.

He said that his two years in a relationship with his Murder by Numbers co-star from 2001-2003 was some of the fondest memories of his whole life.

Asked what Ryan had taught her about life in a Cosmopolitan interview, Sandra replied: “To chill. I live my life at a manic pace, and he’s taught me to disregard all that isn’t important. He’s like a little Buddha.”

Rachel McAdams

Arguably the most romantic film of all time, Ryan met co-star Rachel McAdams when filming The Notebook.

In the movie, Allie, played by Rachel, and Noah, portrayed by Ryan, fall madly in love despite a very turbulent relationship that sees them screaming at each other and reportedly the real life story is not too dissimilar.

On set the pair were believed to actively dislike each other, and Ryan once actually asked director Nick Cassavetes to remove Rachel from the set.

Nick told VH1: “They were really not getting along one day on set. Really not.

“And Ryan came to me, and there are 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here,’ and he’s doing a scene with Rachel, and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?’

“I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.'”

Eventually the pair did follow in their characters footsteps and begin a relationship.

However, they split after two years reportedly due to busy work schedules and because Rachel was uncertain about wanting children.

Ryan told GQ years after the split: “God bless The Notebook. It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life.

“But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.

“The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw.”

Kat Dennings

In 2009, rumours began circulating that he was dating Two Broke Girls star Kat Dennings.

They were pictured together on what looked like a date at Disneyland, but neither of them ever confirmed a romance.

Blake Lively

Ryan and Blake Lively were rumoured to be dating, but never confirmed a romance at the time or since.

Blake has however used Ryan Gosling as the punchline to several jokes at the expense of her husband, Ryan Reynolds

She posted a picture of the two Ryans to mark her husband’s 41st birthday, but she cropped Ryan Reynolds face mostly out of the picture.

The three are reportedly all good friends.

Eva Mendes

Ryan and Eva met on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, where they also played lovers, on screen and off.

The couple quickly fell for each other and went on to have two daughters together; Amada, 5, and Esmerelda, 7, and their adopted rescue pup Lucho.

Despite their long term romance, they have only ever appeared publicly together on one occasion, which was to promote the movie where they met.

Since then Ryan has been dominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for his role in La La Land in 2017, but the couple still chose to avoid the limelight on those occasions.

During his Golden Globe acceptance speech in 2017, Ryan paid tribute to Eva without mentioning her by name, and dedicated his award to her late brother, Juan Carlos Mendes.

In his speech he said: “I would like to try and thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer.

“If she hadn’t taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. So, sweetheart, thank you. To my daughters, Amada and Esmeralda, I love you.”

While speaking to Hello! Canada in 2015, Ryan was asked what qualities he looks for in a woman, to which he responded: “That she’s Eva Mendes, there’s nothing else I’m looking for.”

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk