Wave goodbye to Ryan Gosling\u2019s \u201cLa La Hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lionsgate has changed the actor\u2019s hand placement on the poster for \u201cLa La Land\u201d<\/a> as the studio prepares to rerelease the Academy Award-winning musical to celebrate its 10th anniversary. <\/p>\n Turns out, the city of stars is shining just for him; it just took a decade for his hand to find the spotlight.<\/p>\n Gosling said the flat hand gesture has haunted him since it first appeared on the poster and physical media covers.<\/p>\n When asked by the Wall Street Journal Magazine in 2024<\/a> if there was a role he\u2019d like to redo, his answer was \u201cLa La Land.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a moment that haunts me where we\u2019re dancing, Emma [Stone] and I, and I didn\u2019t know this would become the poster for the movie, but I thought we were supposed to have our hands up and I thought it\u2019d be cool to put my hand [flat].\u201d<\/p>\n Everyone told him it wasn\u2019t cool, but he stuck with it, Gosling said.<\/p>\n \u201cNow when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would\u2019ve been cooler \u2026 [the correct pose]. It just killed the energy that way. … I call it La La Hand,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n The pose brought him so much shame that during his press tour for \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d the Oscar nominee took matters into his own \u2026 hands.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is my hail mary attempt to fix my La La Hand, and my buddy Rocky is going to help me,\u201d Gosling said in the Instagram video<\/a> in March, right before recreating the image the way it was intended to look with his puppet co-star (standing in for Stone).<\/p>\n Directed by Damien Chazelle, \u201cLa La Land\u201d was nominated for 14 Oscars, winning six, including lead actress for Stone and director. For a brief few minutes at the ceremony, it was incorrectly named best picture before \u201cMoonlight\u201d rightfully took the prize.<\/p>\n Producer Marc Platt and Lionsgate are also developing a stage production of the film for Broadway. The musical will dance its way into theaters again Aug. 16, with all limbs correctly placed.<\/p>\n