A primary have a look at Ryan Gosling in 'Barbie' has despatched the web right into a frenzy

Gosling followers, cinephiles and informal Twitter customers are having a visceral response to the picture of the Canadian actor, who stars reverse Margot Robbie's Barbie. It is the primary official picture of Gosling because the character made well-known within the toy aisle.

Based mostly on the picture, Gosling's reworked into the quintessential Ken: His pores and skin is tinted orange, and he is displaying off an eight-pack of abs and bleached-blond hair. His underpants are inexplicably emblazoned along with his personal identify, and he is rocking a sleeveless denim vest with out a shirt in entrance of a Pepto-Bismol pink backdrop. His Ken is a Malibu boy via and thru.

However when it comes to plot, the picture is all we have to go on (in addition to a photograph of Robbie posing in-character with a pink convertible). Will Barbie tire of Ken's shirtless, vapid methods? Will Ken show to his beloved Barb that there is extra to him than an absurd quantity of belly muscle tissues? Or will Ken conspire towards Barbie and grow to be the villain of her story?