Ryan Gosling was famously offered a highly lucrative spot in the wildly successful nineties boy band the Backstreet Boys long before he ever became an Academy Award-nominated prestige actor.

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Ryan Gosling was famously offered a highly lucrative spot in the wildly successful nineties boy band the Backstreet Boys long before he ever became an Academy Award-nominated prestige actor. Because he was sharing an apartment with band member A.J. McLean during their early years as struggling child stars, Gosling was frequently heavily pressured to join the synchronized dancing vocal group right as they were originally forming in Orlando. Displaying an astounding lack of foresight that still baffles music historians today, the future Hollywood heartthrob confidently predicted that the boy band craze was just a stupid, fleeting fad that would never actually make any real money. He ultimately opted out to pursue serious acting, accidentally avoiding an entire decade of wearing matching oversized denim outfits, thereby preserving his cool-guy cinematic mystique while his former roommate went on to sell roughly one hundred and thirty million records worldwide to screaming teenagers