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How Ryan Gosling Forever Changed ‘The Gray Man’ Author Mark Greaney’s Imagination · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Ryan Gosling stars as
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  Speaker 1: the gray Man himself, Court Gentry and the upcoming Netflix
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  Speaker 1: mega blockbuster The gray Man. But before Ryan had anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with the titular character, he existed on the
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  Speaker 1: pages of the gray Man series of novels that project
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  Speaker 1: is based on and in the mind of their author,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Grainey. And while some writers might struggle to watch
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  Speaker 1: an actor take ownership of a character born from their imagination,
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  Speaker 1: Mark thinks Ryan fits the role like a glove. He's
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  Speaker 1: really the perfect embodiment of the character that I've been
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  Speaker 1: writing about for the past thirteen years. He's he's urs little,
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  Speaker 1: he's a chameleon, he's not flashy or showy, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got all the qualities of a really good spy. And
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  Speaker 1: there is an intensity and her presence in his work
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  Speaker 1: that really reflects the character that I created. No surprise,
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  Speaker 1: Marks very pleased. The buzz around Netflix is the gray
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  Speaker 1: Man adaptation is red hot. It's on Netflix July twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: and Mark's Brandy twenty novel Armored is out now. That's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.