Russell Crowe On Inviting Ryan Gosling To Dinner

By Cat Williams. Published: 10 May 2016 12:12 PM

Star of the new film “The Nice Guys”;, Russell Crowe popped into “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”; on Tuesday, dishing about a dinner party he held hosting his co-star Ryan Gosling. Crowe, 52, recalls one particularly hilarious time when he invited the Canadian-born heartthrob over for an intimate dinner at his home and his wife invited 12 of her closest female friends.

Before Crowe met Gosling, 35: “I watched like three of his movies in a row at one point. I watched “Drive’, “Crazy, Stupid Love’ and “Ides Of March’ and I thought that this kid’s really spectacular. So I wanted to reach out to him and say hello to him and talk to him about a particular project.”;

“Just a quiet little intimate dinner,”; Crowe says. “Me and my wife, I was married at the time, and you and your lady. And he was like cool, that would be so cool, just the four of us. So I told the wife on this date we’re going to have dinner with Ryan Gosling. She goes “oh cool,’ she didn’t really say much. But on the day, I was talking to her and she had invited 12 of her girlfriends. So I’ve told this idea to Ryan that he’s going to be having this little intimate dinner, but now I’ve got my wife and 12 and plus her mother.”;

While Crowe managed to even it out and invite some of his male friends, including RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, Gosling didn’t seem it mind it at all. Crowe later explained the situation to Gosling a couple years later on set, saying, “Look mate, you got to get along with the wife.”;

Similarly, Gosling has a funny story of his own, telling Jimmy Kimmel about the time he went drinking with Crowe one time after shooting their movie. He quips, “I did it once, and I learned my lesson.”;