--- title: Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Is an Astronaut description: Ryan Gosling may be one of the most well-known actors in the world, but his kids apparently think he has a different job entirely. canonical: https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-04T14:47:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:15.502Z og:title: Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Has a Different Job og:description: Gosling's new movie role has his kids confused og:url: https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd2ef5919d98d4711/69893bd54ee262374d31305e/screen-shot-2018-10-04-at-10-38-30-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ryan-Gosling-Jimmy-Kimmel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Has a Different Job twitter:description: Gosling's new movie role has his kids confused twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd2ef5919d98d4711/69893bd54ee262374d31305e/screen-shot-2018-10-04-at-10-38-30-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Well-Known Actor Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Has a Totally Different Job  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 4, 2018 2:47 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 4, 2018 2:47 PM UTC [Ryan Gosling](http://time.com/5393796/ryan-gosling-tiff/) may be one of the most well-known actors in the world, but his kids apparently think he has a different job entirely. During a Wednesday appearance on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ to promote his new movie [_First Man_](http://time.com/5381790/first-man-review/), Gosling revealed that his role as Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, in the Damien Chazelle-directed biopic has convinced his daughters that he is actually an astronaut. “They came to set and they came on this day where I was shooting a launch scene,” Gosling told Kimmel of his two daughters with Eva Mendes. “So I was in the space suit and pretending to launch. I think they think I’m an astronaut now.” The 37-year-old actor went on to reveal that his firstborn, Esmeralda, is now under the impression that he has a doozy of a daily commute. “My oldest said the other day, she pointed to the moon and she was like, ‘That’s where you work, right?'” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/"},"headline":"Well-Known Actor Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Has a Totally Different Job","datePublished":"2018-10-04T14:47:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:15.502Z","description":"Gosling's role as Neil Armstrong has his kids confused","url":"https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","Ryan Gosling"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd2ef5919d98d4711/69893bd54ee262374d31305e/screen-shot-2018-10-04-at-10-38-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd2ef5919d98d4711/69893bd54ee262374d31305e/screen-shot-2018-10-04-at-10-38-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ryan-Gosling-Jimmy-Kimmel","caption":"","creditText":"ABC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5415342/ryan-gosling-jimmy-kimmel-daughters/","name":"Well-Known Actor Ryan Gosling's Daughters Are Convinced He Has a Totally Different Job"}}]}] ```