Share
17th January 2024
02:29pm GMT
The actor revealed he has his reasons for hiding his blonde, tanned character from his children despite them helping him prep for the role.
"I don't know if you should watch your father as Ken," Ryan told E! News at the 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
"I don't know what age is a good age to see your father do that. It gets pretty crazy."
Yet Esmerelda, 9, and Amada, 7 got to see their dad in his blond, tanned glory as they visited him on set.
"They've seen little parts of it and they came to set one day when I did a big musical number," Ryan said.
It's only right as it was his children's love of Barbie that pushed him to tackle the role of Ken in the first place, without them we may not have seen the 43-year-old in some whacky outfits.
"I knew that they loved it because they kept saying at first, 'Hey, can we go to Target?'" he recalled.
"And we go to Target, and then they'd slowly go by the Barbie aisle. And my wife and I sort of realised, 'OK, I think it's time to let them have Barbies.'
"And no interest in Ken, which was pretty interesting, too."
So, he feels that making Barbie "was a way to sort of make something both for and with them."
Though Ryan and his wife Eva Mendes are incredibly private when it comes to their home life, the actor had a very sweet message for her while accepting the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film.
"I got to meet the girl of my dreams, Eva Mendes," he said.
"I have two dream children. I dreamed of one day making movies and now movies have made my life a dream. So the way I see it, there's no way I've contributed half as much to cinema as cinema has contributed to me."
Explore more on these topics:
