Watch Ryan Gosling Explain How Depressing It Is to Be an Actor

If you thought it was easy becoming Ryan Gosling, successful Hollywood actor and meme-inspiring heartthrob, you were wrong. In Seduced and Abandoned, the Hollywood-focused documentary from director, screenwriter, producer, and this month’s Vanity Fair contributor James Toback, Gosling describes to Toback and Alec Baldwin (Toback’s collaborator on the film) his unglamorous memories of being a struggling teenage actor in Hollywood. Gosling is just one of the filmmaking figures with whom Toback and Baldwin meet—they also chat with Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, James Caan, and Jessica Chastain in the film, which premiered on HBO last October.

Related: What James Toback Has Learned in Hollywood

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