Ryan Gosling was amazed by Russell Crowe's Rugby League knowledge after the Aussie actor made him a South Sydney game - but all was not as it seemed.
Gosling appears alongside Crowe in The Nice Guys, a story about a private eye who teams up with a hired enforcer to investigate a girl's disappearance and a porn star's death.
![Ryan Gosling as Holland March and Russell Crowe as Jackson Healy in the film The Nice Guys.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/JZVUFHELTLITCSFVORVWC5HCAY.jpg?auth=bed2d121762b2288aebe62852c14005dcf9a9264b8b9c827fd0d367484d8c07d&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Gosling, 35, told the audience one night out with his co-star off set was enough after Crowe hired out a bar to watch a South Sydney Rabbitohs match and unleashed the alcohol.
"I sat down next to him and he had a big iced chest of ginger beer and a big iced chest of vodka and he just kept pouring me drinks," Ryan grimaced. "And I was like, 'I have to do this I'm going to be working with this guy, I have to do this, I have to try and at least go like one for three.'"