He’s more of a techno fan, with the occasional baseball game thrown in for good measure. Gosling’s character doesn’t exactly listen to pop music in “Drive,” which brought Refn the best director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. I would have dropped him off and that would have been that.”ĭirector Nicolas Winding Refn, in town to promote his newest film called “Drive.” (Bill O'Leary/WASHINGTON POST) What I love is that this film would never have gotten made had REO Speedwagon not come on the radio. I thought, ‘How is it he and I are both having the same dream?’ We can’t have a conversation, and yet we’re carrying the same dream. Suddenly he’s next to me crying and singing. After reading the “Drive” script, which is based on a novel by James Sallis, he says he “wished that this film could be about a guy who just drove around listening to music and not about stunts and driving fast, but just the spell that a car can put you under. “I screamed in Ryan’s face, ‘I got it!’ I know what ‘Drive’ is! It’s going to be about a man who drives around at night listening to pop music, because that’s his emotional relief.’ And Ryan said, ‘I’m in.’ ”įor Gosling, the moment came as a revelation. In X amount of months I was going to be broke. I’m a huge ’80s fan, and here I was, really ill, high as a kite, completely out of balance. “And then REO Speedwagon’s ‘I Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore’ starts to play.
“It was like a blind date gone terribly wrong,” Refn recalled over an espresso during a recent visit to Washington. To make matters worse, the 40-year-old filmmaker, who lives in Copenhagen with his wife and two daughters, was suffering from a vicious case of flu, and first met Gosling while “completely stoned” on medication, finally asking the actor - after an awkwardly quiet dinner - to drive him back to his hotel in Santa Monica. Refn had been trying to convince Harrison Ford that his character should die in the CIA thriller they were doing. In 2009, when Ryan Gosling reached out to Nicolas Winding Refn to direct “Drive,” a taut, quietly mesmerizing thriller about a getaway car driver, he found the Danish director in one of Hollywood’s most notorious neighborhoods: Development Hell.
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