There is a really sweet Ryan Gosling film that he made before he was Drive famous called
Lars and the Real Girl. In it he plays Lars, a man in his early thirties with few friends who lives on his brothers garage. He is also in a relationship with a sex doll he ordered online called Bianca, the titular Real Girl. Gosling is still in skinny, pale indie phase at this point and he plays Lars with a thin blonde 'scandiporn' moustache, a greasy combover and a
'jumper'. These things together with the sex doll thing could make the character seem grossly unappealing but you know, he is Ryan Gosling so he is still pretty attractive. Also, I said this was a sweet film, and what might seem like some kind of sexual perversion is treated gently by his family and community. Instead of ridicule and slander, they allow his fantasies to play out, revealing his deep feelings of loss and betrayal after his mothers death and when after meeting a real 'Real girl' he decides to let Bianca go by rushing her to hospital after finding her 'unresponsive', they continue to play along with a funeral and comforting him through his grief. They accepted his strangeness because all
people are strange.
