The actors both transformed for their 2015 film "The Big Short," but Gosling remains haunted by his costar's shocked reaction to his character. Ryan Gosling still has 'trauma' over wearing wigs in movies — and it's all Steve Carell's fault The actors both transformed for their 2015 film "The Big Short," but Gosling remains haunted by his costar's shocked reaction to his character. By Kathleen Perricone March 19, 2026 5:25 p.m. ET Leave a Comment :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SteveCarellRyanGosling031926c83f8c06df754e55a7ed60f1d2dee965.

The actors both transformed for their 2015 film "The Big Short," but Gosling remains haunted by his co-star's shocked reaction to his character.

Ryan Gosling still has 'trauma' over wearing wigs in movies — and it's all Steve Carell's fault

The actors both transformed for their 2015 film "The Big Short," but Gosling remains haunted by his co-star's shocked reaction to his character.

By Kathleen Perricone

March 19, 2026 5:25 p.m. ET

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Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling, both in wigs, in 'The Big Short'. Credit:

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It's been over a decade since an offhanded remark by Steve Carell sent Ryan Gosling spiraling into existential crisis on the set of *The Big Short*, but the trauma is still raw.

The *Project Hail Mary* actor stopped by *Late Night With Seth Meyers* on Wednesday to talk about his new movie, when Meyers pulled up a photo of his character, a school teacher who awakens from a 13-year coma aboard a spaceship and, as such, has long hair and a full beard.

Ryan Gosling in a wig and fake beard for 'Project Hail Mary'.

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"Oh my god," reacted Gosling, seemingly triggered. "I call him the space caveman… you know, I don't do this a lot. I have a little bit of trauma because I went for it a bit on this film, *The Big Short*."

In the 2015 comedic drama, Gosling's character was a banker embroiled in the 2000s housing bubble, and the Oscar-nominated actor wanted to truly transform for the role, taking his hair from dirty blonde to brunette.

"And I stepped out in my wig and costume and I ran into Steve Carell, who was the first person I saw," Gosling recalled to Meyers. "He just starred at me and was like, 'Never do this again.'"

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And until *Project Hail Mary*, he didn't.

Furthermore, "I never spoke to him again," joked Gosling of Carell, also his co-star previously in 2011's *Crazy, Stupid Love* with Emma Stone and Julianne Moore.

Gosling first spoke up about the trauma caused by Carell back in 2015, during the promotion of *The Big Short*.

In a joint interview with ABC News, he recalled the moment he stepped on the set, in character and exuding confidence. "Putting on the wig… I felt like, 'Oh I got this,'" Gosling told *Nightline*'s Chris Connelly. "And then I walked out of the trailer and I saw Steve."

"Such a horror show," Carell reminisced, laughing. "He's such a good-looking human being, and it — he could not have looked creepier."

Check out Gosling's full interview on *Late Night With Seth Meyers* below.

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