A still from La La Land showing Ryan Gosling’s bent wrist as it was featured on the film’s original poster. Ten years after its release, Lionsgate has ‘corrected’ Gosling’s hand. Photograph: Dale Robinette/AP View image in fullscreen A still from La La Land showing Ryan Gosling’s bent wrist as it was featured on the film’s original poster. Ten years after its release, Lionsgate has ‘corrected’ Gosling’s hand. Photograph: Dale Robinette/AP Explain it to me quickly La La Land What happened to Ryan Gosling’s ‘La La Hand’ on the La La Land poster? After 10 years and much complaining from Gosling, ‘a minor adjustment’ has been made to the La La Land poster – but has film history been erased at the same time?
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Some La La Land fans are outraged at a new poster released to mark the 1oth anniversary of the film by Lionsgate, which has “corrected” Gosling’s bent wrist in his celebrated dance pose with Emma Stone .
What was wrong with the bent wrist? Is this gay erasure? I loved the bent wrist!
As do many La La Land fans. It represents a little flourish, a moment of individuality, a rebellion against conformity. But it’s not gay erasure: Gosling himself hated it. Which is why Lionsgate revealed the new poster with the announcement: “Well, Ryan, you have been heard!”
Ryan Gosling hates his own hand? Say more!
Read more In a 2024 interview with the Wall Street Journal , Gosling called it the “La La Hand”, saying the pose “haunts” him because he didn’t realise the dance scene would be used for the film’s poster. During filming, he said, he had ignored the advice of choreographers and flattened his hand where Stone had hers in perfect line with the rest of her arm.
“I thought it’d be cool to put my hand like that,” he told the WSJ. “Now when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would have been cooler than this? That,” Gosling said, imitating a straight wrist. “It just killed the energy that way.”
View image in fullscreen ‘Well, Ryan, you have been heard’ … the reissued poster for La La Land. Photograph: Lionsgate So is Gosling happy with the new poster?
According to Lionsgate executive vice president, Justin Manfredi, who unveiled the “minor adjustment” at an event at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the actor loves it. “We let him know and he approved it,” said Manfredi.
Gosling also took things into his own hands earlier this year, fixing his La La Hand in a video with his Project Hail Mary costar Rocky. “This is my hail Mary attempt to fix my La La Hand,” he said.
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And the internet has reacted with a sense of proportion, I’m sure.
Read more “This sucks. The gay little wrist ruled. It was a reminder that, while La La Land is a movie about a straight relationship, it’s 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’s a part of film history. No take-backsies,” Jason P Frank wrote in Vulture .
Other fans feel that Gosling’s original hand flex reflected something deep about the characters’ mismatched relatio…