Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the film, can be seen holding a copy of Man & Horse, The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes.
A retired Kiwi academic was stunned to find out his book had popped-up in the hit film Barbie.
Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the film, can be seen holding a copy of Man & Horse, The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes.
In the movie, Ken stumbles upon a copy of the book when he enters a high school library in the Real World. It becomes part of a whole masculine montage of “man and horse” – a very funny theme in the film.
The book’s 73-year-old author, who lives in Port Chalmers, was yet to see the film but his friends and family, including his wife who is currently in America, had contacted him about the unexpected cameo.
The Ken actor also confirmed his interest in the book during a press interview alongside lead actress, Margot Robbie, who plays Barbie.
”I want to make that book into a movie,” Gosling said.
Egenes said he was ”gobsmacked” by the interview.
It was a memoir of his 1974 journey on his horse, Gizmo, from California to Virginia, with that seven months’ ride taking the pair across 11 states.
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