Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of You—we’re celebrating everything we love about the last 15 years of romantic comedies.
Ryan Gosling is the undisputed king of the modern studio romantic comedy. From The Fall Guy to Crazy, Stupid, Love (which both ranked in the upper echelons of our ranking of the best modern studio rom-coms)—even to Lars and the Real Girl—Gosling has all the other rom-com hunks beat.
His swoony talents aren’t exclusive to the rom-com genre. Gosling has also brought his charm to numerous romantic dramas, like La La Land, The Notebook, and Blue Valentine. There’s something so soothing about that smile… something about that contagious smile and that fluffy blond hair makes us all go wild.
