Ryan Gosling’s career has evolved from the Mickey Mouse Club and lameass tearjerkers like “The Notebook” to acting in critically acclaimed independents like “Half Nelson” and “Lars and the Real Girl”.

That, of course, doesn’t mean any of these recent indies are good movies by our standards, they’re just not the cookie cutter crap Gosling has churned out in the past.

The only reason we’re telling you this is because it appears that along with now doing quirky films, Gosling himself has evolved into quite the eccentric weirdo, the type of actor who’s pretty good when a director finally gets him on camera, but has the people skills of a shut-in, sounds like a mental patient when interviewed, and decidedly doesn’t give a shit about their own physical well-being. A la Marlon Brando.

Here’s what we know:

1) Gosling’s Canadian. That’s got weirdo written all over it.

2) The dude is getting porky. He just got axed from Peter Jackson’s new film, “The Lovely Bones”, where insiders claim Jackson fired him because he “gained too much weight!”

Sure, the PR reps cited “creative differences”, but all evidence points to Gosling getting sacked for eating “grilled cheese every day” and driving “the hair and wardrobe crew crazy.” [Us, WWTDD]

3) Marky Mark swooped in and snatched that role with Peter Jackson before Gosling could say “beer battered.”

4) It’s now pretty obvious Rachel McAdams kicked Gosling’s tubby ass to the curb for growing a second chin and being the kind of guy who would hassle hair and wardrobe.

We have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg with this dude. Don’t be surprised when you start reading stories about Gosling going out in public with no pants on, signing up to have his corpse cryogenically frozen, spending a month in Italy eating nothing but gelato, or Fedexing a Ziploc bag full of pubes to Mark Wahlberg’s house.

It’s about to get weird. Brando would be proud.

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