Former Disney Child Ryan Gosling is Apparently Also a Disney Adult

As many a homeowner can confirm, once you have a mouse, it’s pretty tough to get rid of. 

This is certainly the case for Ryan Gosling, according to his pal, fellow actor John Stamos. In an interview with Keke Palmer on her podcast, Baby, This Is Keke Palmer, Stamos revealed that he’d felt he had to mask his status as a Disney Adult—a grown-up fan of The House of Mouse. “I think I reached puberty there,” Stamos said. He explained that he proposed to his wife in a Disney park, and claimed that she, a fellow Disney Adult, had wanted to give birth in the park, which even Stamos said was “too much.” He even tried to deny his heritage as a subject of the Magic Kingdom, he said. 

“Six or seven years ago, I was like, ‘Man, I gotta shed this Disney thing, [because] who’s gonna take me seriously with the Mickey Mouse stuff? I’ve gotta distance myself from it’,” he said.

It wasn’t until a conversation with notorious cereal refuser Gosling at a dinner party that he felt empowered to openly embrace his true status as a Disney Adult. We smell a Moana-style embrace of one’s True Self coming on. 

According to Stamos, Gosling said that he’d heard that the two shared a love for Disney. Gosling was famously a Mouseketeer as a kid, cheesin’ on The Mickey Mouse Club, and now self-identifies as a Disney Adult. After all, puppies grow into dogs, Disney kids grow into Disney Adults.

Stamos recalled Gosling telling him about his own quests into the Magic Kingdom: “I wear headphones, I go on rides, I have a mixtape.”

And now, Stamos is all about that Disney life. He beat Michael Jackson in an online auction to win an enormous Disneyland sign (he had to bring it in by helicopter and said that when he was single he’d ask girls to “come home and see my D,” get it? Get it?) and has a candelabra-shaped phone that once had a place of honor in Walt Disney’s office, among other full-on artifacts. 

“When you go through those gates, the rest of the world goes away,” Stamos said.