I’ve just added an article about Lars & The Real Girl, Ryan and Craig talks about the film and much more.

While so many screen romantic comedies feel plastic, Lars and The Real Girl makes a virtue of it. The star and director of the offbeat film talk to Helen Barlow.
Ryan Gosling is known for playing loners and outsiders, and mostly for making them likable. After realising his potential as a romantic lead in The Notebook, he was keen to try screen romance again. Yet it was never going to be an ordinary romance because in Lars and The Real Girl the girl of the title is a doll. Not an ordinary doll, but an anatomically correct life-size sex doll named Bianca.
Lars is delusional and he believes that Bianca is the love of his life. Naturally it was important that Gosling respect the silicon doll in order to play someone who loves her.
In fact the film’s Australian New-York based director, Craig Gillespie, went to great lengths to ensure that was the case. […]
“Ryan and I are cynical guys,” notes Gillespie, “and it’s funny to think that we’ve done a film that has so much heart. But it’s so hard to pick on a character who is so sincere and genuine and out on a limb. People just connect with him.”
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