{"id":80392,"date":"2026-04-20T01:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/eva-mendes-dishes-on-date-nights-with-ryan-gosling\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:49:01","slug":"eva-mendes-dishes-on-date-nights-with-ryan-gosling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/eva-mendes-dishes-on-date-nights-with-ryan-gosling\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Mendes Dishes on Date Nights With Ryan Gosling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Eva Mendes<\/strong> is sharing rare insight into her date nights with <strong>Ryan Gosling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we do have date nights regularly,\u201d Mendes, 52, told <em>People<\/em> in an interview published on Friday, April 17, adding that their dates include \u201call the unmentionables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what else to say. We like movies, and we like going to the movies, so we try to keep that alive,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes added that fans are \u201cusually cool\u201d when they\u2019re spotted out together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want attention, you go to certain places, and if you don\u2019t, you know where to go. We do the latter,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes and Gosling, 45, met while filming <em>The Place Beyond the Pines<\/em> in August 2011. The two were spotted together at Disneyland the following month, sparking romance rumors. Mendes and Gosling later spent Thanksgiving and New Year\u2019s Eve together, months before their red carpet debut in September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes and Gosling went on to welcome their first child, daughter Esmeralda, in September 2014, followed by daughter Amada in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Lost River<\/em> costars have kept their relationship and their family fairly private over the years, with Mendes explaining the decision in a since-deleted Instagram post in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always had a clear boundary when it comes to my man and my kids. I\u2019ll talk about them of course, with limits, but I won\u2019t post pictures of our daily life,\u201d she wrote at the time. \u201cSince my children are still so little and don\u2019t understand what posting their image really means, I don\u2019t have their consent. And I won\u2019t post their image until they\u2019re old enough to give me consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Eva-Mendes-and-Ryan-Gosling-Fallon-GettyImages-2264388978.jpg?w=400&amp;h=225&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Eva-Mendes-and-Ryan-Gosling-Fallon-GettyImages-2264388978\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Eva-Mendes-and-Ryan-Gosling-Fallon-GettyImages-2264388978.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Eva Mendes Reacts After &#8216;My Man&#8217; Ryan Gosling&#8217;s Surprise Birthday Serenade<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRyan Gosling should keep a close eye on his longtime love, Eva Mendes, after his televised surprise for her 52nd birthday. \u201cA huuuuge gracias to @jimmyfallon and @nbhs_bruins marching band,\u201d Mendes wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 7. \u201cWhat a beautiful memory, and a special thank you to all the educators in the audience. We [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mendes reiterated her thoughts in 2021 while responding to a fan who asked to see more photos of Gosling on her Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as Ryan, I\u2019ll only post [flashbacks] of things that are already \u2018out there\u2019 (like pics from movies we did or stuff like that). My man and my kids are private. That\u2019s important to me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gosling has also opened up about his relationship with Mendes on rare occasions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you asked me about Eva and kids, I think I said, \u2018I didn\u2019t think about kids until she told me she was pregnant.\u2019 That\u2019s not really true,\u201d he said in his 2023 <em>GQ<\/em> cover story. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to overshare, but now I also don\u2019t want to misrepresent. I mean, it\u2019s true that I wasn\u2019t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn\u2019t want to have kids without her. And there were moments on The Place Beyond the Pines where we were pretending to be a family, and I didn\u2019t really want it to be pretend anymore. I realized that this would be a life I would be really lucky to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gosling also said he \u201cleans on\u201d Mendes for parenting guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knows what\u2019s important, always,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe just somehow knows. So if ever I\u2019m in my head about it, I just ask her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva Mendes is sharing rare insight into her date nights with Ryan Gosling. \u201cYeah, we do have date nights regularly,\u201d Mendes, 52, told People in an interview published on Friday, April 17, adding that their dates include \u201call the unmentionables.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know what else to say. 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