Ryan plays a smug lawyer in Fracture Credit: New Line Cinema

Hot Ryan Gosling, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for his role as an addicted school teacher in Half Nelson, likes to take on all kinds of films; small indies like The United States of Leland and big budget films like the sweeping romance The Notebook (where he met current sweetie Rachel McAdams) or Remember The Titans with Denzel or Murder by Numbers opposite Sandy Bullock. Now, he plays a cocky young lawyer who has to re-think his priorities as he co-stars with Sir Anthony Hopkins in the thriller Fracture. We learned that Ryan was living in a tent when he first read the Fracture script...but he won't clue us in on why. Ah, cute AND mysterious!

Mr. Gosling is nothing if not a casual dude. Whenever we've chatted with him, he's dressed way down. Today is no exception. At the posh Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Ryan enters our interview room carrying hot tea and wearing a rolled-up sleeve, plaid flannel shirt ripped over the pocket and a white tank wife-beater undershirt. He's got on worn jeans and has a tattoo on inside of left wrist. We had to ask how a guy who is comfortable in that casual garb could play an uptight lawyer...

TeenHollywood: Is this the first movie where you wore a suit, tie and the whole thing? If so, were you comfy in that or not?

Ryan: [grins] Yeah, well I got very comfy in that as the movie went on.