Address for Ryan Gosling?

November 25, 2013 11:40 AM

My wife has written a letter to Ryan Gosling that she'd like him to read personally. She's found the addresses for his fan mail, but doesn't think Gosling actually sees the mail sent to those addresses. Ideas you might have on how to search for a direct address for him or where to send such mail for him are appreciated.
posted by partner to Grab Bag (18 answers total)

Presumably, all fans want Ryan Gosling to read their mail personally. It's exactly for this reason they have fan mail addresses and have direct addresses that aren't listed anywhere.

If the letter is important enough, it will make it's way from his admin person to him personally.
posted by Lutoslawski at 11:46 AM on November 25, 2013 [35 favorites]

Ummmn... unless there is some very compelling reason why The Gos needs to personally read this letter ("Att'n, Gosling: you are a perfect HLA match and I was wondering if you'd give me a kidney?"), this is not likely to happen. Jul's First Law of the Bourgeois: if someone is extraordinarily difficult to access, and an extraordinary number of people WISH to access them, your reason for doing so must be extraordinary-SQUARED in order for you to do so.

(You could always peruse various viral videos/Facebook pleas which have succeeded in garnering celebrity intervention over the year, e.g. the "take me to the prom, Celebrity Guy!" trope, and try to copy their tactics.)
posted by julthumbscrew at 11:47 AM on November 25, 2013 [12 favorites]

Busy celebrities hire people to be their gatekeeper. There's no non-stalkery way to get a letter into the hands of an A-list celebrity directly unless you just happen to run into them on the street.

So if your wife's letter is a business proposition, then get in touch with his representation. If it's a fan letter, then you should send it to his fan mail address as that's where it should go. If it's something that the gatekeeper feels Mr Gosling should see, then it may be passed along.
posted by inturnaround at 11:48 AM on November 25, 2013 [7 favorites]

You could try twitter.
posted by dilaudid at 11:49 AM on November 25, 2013 [4 favorites]

You could try sending it to his production company, Phantasma Films. However I imagine that unless it's something more than your standard celebrity fan-letter (i.e. "Remember me, I was your favorite elementary school teacher?") it will probably just get read by an intern and thrown in a massive slush pile.
posted by np312 at 11:50 AM on November 25, 2013

She should publish it as an open letter on the Internet. It's much likelier he'll read it if the letter goes viral on Twitter or something rather than wending its way through his gatekeepers.
posted by carsonb at 11:51 AM on November 25, 2013 [14 favorites]

Granted Ryan Gosling is a big deal, and he might get too much fan mail to personally ever see all of it.

But I work in film and TV, and have had some jobs where I was the person receiving actors' fan mail. I always made sure it got to the person in question.

Whatever address you've found is likely the correct channel for fan mail, and you should address your fan mail there.

Another option would be to send it to the production office of a film he's in that is currently in pre-production or principal photography. YMMV on being able to figure out that address, but if you come up with anything, shoot me a MeFi Mail and I'll see what kind of sleuthing I can do.

Note that going the production office route is no more or less likely to give the result you want, and in a lot of regards is more chancy than just sending it to the appropriate address.
posted by Sara C. at 11:54 AM on November 25, 2013 [3 favorites]

His publicist is Robin Baum at Slate PR: [e-mail]. (This is publicly available information which I found online.) You definitely shouldn't assume that mail sent via her will ever reach him, but who the hell knows? I guess it depends what's in the letter.
posted by oliverburkeman at 11:54 AM on November 25, 2013 [1 favorite]

Send it to his publicist, his agent, his lawyer, his accountant, his hairdresser, etc. You almost always go through a gatekeeper.

Unless he's active on social media (Twitter, etc.) and responds to individual inquiries, you're not going to have direct contact with him unless you're either previously known to him or else sufficiently famous in your own right that he knows your name.
posted by dfriedman at 12:28 PM on November 25, 2013

His manager is Carolyn Govers at Anonymous Content
3532 Hayden Ave
Culver City, CA 90232

His lawyer is
posted by Ideefixe at 1:09 PM on November 25, 2013

I work for the manager of a major recording artist. Occasionally fan mail gets sent here instead of whatever fan club is out there. These almost always get stamped "return to sender" or tossed in the trash without reading. But recently, there was a note that was addressed directly to the artist's manager, requesting a signed photo from the artist. The person hand-wrote a personal note explaining that she wanted it for her long-distance boyfriend for Christmas, included a photo of the couple together, and a SASE for the return of the photo. The manager's assistant looked at it and since it was personally addressed to the manager, seeking access to the artist instead of to the artist himself, it was passed up through the manager to the artist (via his assistant) who then signed a press photo to be sent back.

Long story short--maybe track down his management office, address a letter directly to his manager, include whatever you can to make it personalized and unique, and hope for the best.

But anyway, yeah, I think twitter is probably a better bet.
posted by greta simone at 1:15 PM on November 25, 2013 [5 favorites]

Former personal assistant to Film Industry Celebrity Person here. In my experience, sending it to his agent, manager, publicist, etc. will most likely result in it being forwarded to the proper place/person who deals with his mail. If there is something truly complelling about your wife's message, he might actually see it, though it may be months from now. Plenty of Celebrity-Type People's lives are organized in such a fashion that they'll schedule an hour to go through these "fan letters to be looked at" perhaps once every few months, but it's a very low priority and will definitely be ignored if he's shooting, promoting something, actively taking time off to recuperate post-shooting, etc.

Don't feel insulted if she doesn't hear back from him. There are a great many people who also have very important personal messages that they want celebs to acknowledge. Some celebrities/famous people have a rock-solid 100% non-response system in place for security reasons. Others have a rock-solid 100% form letter response set up, because unfortunately any kind of personal response can be misconstrued by the crazies out there.
posted by BlahLaLa at 1:31 PM on November 25, 2013 [6 favorites]

Other than the twitter ideas, the only ideas that come to mind are SUPER stalkery.

For eg., he has a condo in Burlington Ontario and locals know (or suspect they know) which one it is. Not that he's there often, but sometimes he shows up in the Burbs during TIFF or for family reasons and then it gets a gossip shout-out when it happens. If he has a house in L.A., it might be in that "map of the stars" thing.

You could try sending it to Eva Mendes' assistant as well.... oh wait they broke up... alright try Rachel McAdams....

Like I said... it gets stalkery pretty damn quick. Truthfully, unless there is something specific she could do for him (give him a movie role?), or unless she has a compelling reason (make a wish: adult edition) it is unfortunate but celebs don't have use for us unless we have access to things they need. Such is life. I am also enamored with The Gos, so I share this heartbreak.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:50 PM on November 25, 2013

Send it to his dog "George" c/o Ryan Gosling and see if that gets it through. He's a big animal lover.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:50 PM on November 25, 2013 [4 favorites]

Mail it to his publicist, but try making the letter a beautiful OBJECT. Use the most beautiful, thickest paper you can find. Write the letter by hand using beautiful handwriting. An elegant envelope, addressed with a fountain pen with impeccable calligraphy. Classy, understated. Somehow I imagine Gosling would dig this.
posted by Tom-B at 5:28 PM on November 25, 2013 [4 favorites]

Mail it to the fan mail address. I've worked for famous people (celebrities, famous producers, etc.) and they don't want to receive direct fan mail because they are people who want, and are entitled to their, privacy. Your wife's urgent wish to send something to Ryan Gosling doesn't trump his desire to live a life as free of unnecessary intrusion as possible. He's an actor, and he doesn't owe his fans anything beyond what he already gives them. (I've heard he's very nice and generous with autographs when approached, though). Unless you're leaving out some seriously important information, the Gos doesn't need to read this letter.

You can send a letter to his manager, or whatever, but trying to the bend the rules is just going to make you seem annoying, and depending on how far you take it, like a total creepy jerk.
posted by ablazingsaddle at 6:13 PM on November 25, 2013 [8 favorites]

I will also add, per ablazingsaddle, that anything that seems strange, like weirdly sized or decorated envelopes, things that are not just a letter/photo for signing, etc. is less rather than more likely to be passed on to the person in question.

Don't be weird, and you have a stronger than average shot of it getting seen.
posted by Sara C. at 7:52 PM on November 25, 2013 [2 favorites]

I can think of several ways offhand of how you might accomplish this, but I join the crew wondering what, precisely, is going to be in the letter, or why it's important to her that he actually receive it. (Also, how long is the letter? What are the salient points that absolutely must be read?)

There is, however, no way to do this without being either a stalker or a data miner, which some consider the same thing.
posted by corb at 9:24 AM on November 26, 2013 [1 favorite]