The Ides of March

…for the tense political drama The Ides of March (2011), casting himself as a presidential candidate in a cutthroat primary campaign.

…appeared in the political thriller The Ides of March as the wily campaign manager of a presidential candidate (George Clooney). That year he also portrayed U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke in Too Big to Fail, an HBO movie about the financial crisis of 2007–08.

…releases that had middling success—The Ides of March (2011) with George Clooney and the period crime drama Gangster Squad (2013)—Gosling moved to the other side of the camera, writing and directing the modern dark fairy tale Lost River (2014), which was poorly received. He rebounded with a costarring role…