Ryan Gosling's daughters with wife Eva Mendes have a surprising connection to his Project Hail Mary role. "Eva and I would love to have one of those core memory moments in a movie theater with our kids, like we had them as kids," Gosling, 45, said during a Wednesday, March 18, appearance on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle. "We haven't really had that. So much of what they see or that's out there seems like it's designed to scare them. There's a sense of hopelessness about it." Enter Project Hail Mary, the 2021 science fiction novel by Andy Weir.