Ryan Gosling Says He Turns Down Dark Roles Nowadays For This One Reason

Ryan Gosling is putting his family first. 

In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal , the Barbie actor, 43, revealed that he no longer picks up dark roles in Hollywood to keep his familys mental health intact. 

The Oscar nominee shares two young daughters , Esmeralda Amada and Amada Lee, with wife and fellow actor, Eva Mendes. 

I dont really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place, Gosling told the outlet in the story published Thursday. This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us.

The decisions I make, I make them with Eva, and we make them with our family in mind first, he added. 

The Canadian actor went on to reflect on how starring in 2016s La La Land just two years after he expanded his family was the starting point of his career shift. 

I think La La Land was the first. It was just sort of like, Oh, this will be fun for [my daughters], too, because even though theyre not coming to set, were practicing piano every day or were dancing or were singing, he explained. 

Their interest in Barbie and their disinterest in Ken was an inspiration. I thought, they were already making little movies about their Barbies on the iPad when it happened, so the fact that I was going off to work to make one too, we just felt like we were aligned, Gosling added. 

Considering Goslings most recent role has been as love sick stuntman Colt Seavers in the action-comedy, The Fall Guy, its safe to say hes sticking to his guns. 

The Fall Guy is currently playing in theaters.