All through the movie, Gosling lined his child blues and wore brown contact lenses as a result of James Garner, the celebrated actor who performed the older Noah, had brown eyes. Whereas Gosling was very inquisitive about continuity, Garner, who handed away in July 2014, actually did not care. In response to Cassavetes, Gosling approached the older thespiam about accents as properly, resulting in a hilariously awkward dialog.
“[Ryan] says, ‘I used to be fascinated about accents. There’s all types of South Carolina accents—one’s extra rural’ and this and that. [Garner] goes, ‘I do not do accents, child. They’re silly,'” Cassavetes stated, “And [Ryan] goes, ‘OK. What about eye coloration? I’ve blue eyes. You’ve got brown eyes.’ He says, ‘Everybody is aware of Jim Garner’s acquired brown eyes. Do what you need, child.’ [Ryan] says, ‘OK, I suppose I will put on contacts. What about hair?’ And he says, ‘Do no matter you need, child. Good to fulfill you. So long.’ Ryan checked out me and stated, ‘Shut up, do not even say a phrase.’ In order that’s simply an instance of two extraordinarily various kinds of performing types. Each are wildly profitable.”
One other instance of Gosling’s methodology performing going a bit too far was his suggestion that they burn down Noah’s home as a metaphor for his emotions. “He’d come to me and say, ‘Why cannot I burn the home down?'” Cassavetes revealed, “I might say, ‘As a result of I do not even know what which means.’ And he’d say, ‘Cleaning my hearth!'” Gosling’s thought did not make the ultimate reduce, and the attractive home remains to be standing in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina.