“Nobody plays with Ken, man.”
“I was surprised how, you know, some people were clutching their pearls at my Ken as though they ever thought about Ken for a second before this,” I observed.
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“They never played with Ken,” he went on to joke. “Nobody plays with Ken, man. Did you play with Ken?
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“He’s an accessory. And not even one of the cool ones.”
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Ryan also explained how director Greta Gerwig convinced him to take the role on.
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He says that, after Greta sent him the script, he thought it was the “best” he’d ever read — and then he made a surprising discovery in his backyard.
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“I walk out in the back yard and you know where I find Ken? Face down in the mud next to a squished lemon,” he revealed.
“I texted it to Greta and I said, ‘I shall be your Ken. For his story he must be told.’”
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Watch the whole interview here.