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Ryan Gosling may be straight as an arrow, but Lionsgate just put his wrist through conversion therapy. (It\u2019s still legal in 23 states, you know.) The film studio is rereleasing Damien Chazelle\u2019s landmark film La La Land<\/a> in theaters for its tenth anniversary and, to advertise the event, unveiled a poster with what it called \u201ca minor adjustment.\u201d Well, the studio adjusted it in the way that the Baptists tried to adjust Troye Sivan in Boy Erased. They straightened Ryan Gosling\u2019s wrist.<\/p>\n In the iconic original poster<\/a> for the film, Gosling\u2019s so it\u2019s at an angle from his arm, rather than continuing the line straight through. It is, for lack of a better term, a limp wrist \u2014 a classic signifier of gayness. Gosling revealed in 2024 that the wrist bothered him. \u201cWe\u2019re dancing, Emma and I, and I didn\u2019t know this would become the poster for the movie,\u201d he told The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cWe were supposed to have our hands up, and I thought it would be cool to put my hand like that: [Bends wrist gayly.] Even though everyone told me it wasn\u2019t cool, I was sure it was cooler. And now when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would\u2019ve been cooler than this? [Bends wrist gayly again.] That. [Straightens hand.]\u201d He then added insult to injury by saying it \u201ckilled the energy\u201d and was \u201clazy,\u201d noting that he called it the \u201cLa La Hand.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyway, this sucks. The gay little wrist ruled. It was a reminder that, while La La Land is a movie about a straight relationship, it\u2019s also a musical, which is the gayest genre. Plus this kind of revisionism flies in the face of the nature of time. Gosling made a decision to have a gay little wrist, and now it\u2019s a part of film history. No take-backsies.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n