While it's hard to spot under the many tattoos he's wearing in "The Place Beyond the Pines," Gosling has some ink paying homage to "The Giving Tree" on his left shoulder that you can see peeking through. He has mentioned that his mom often read the children's story when he was growing up. In 2010, though, when Gosling was asked about his tattoo in an interview with Vulture, he said, "That story's the worst . . . I don't want to be the tree."
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