PENNY
Swooned.
All he needs is a cape and a catchphrase.
Hollywood hunk Ryan Gosling is proving to be a real-life hero in the Big Apple, where he saved a woman from getting smashed by a taxi less than a year after breaking up a fight.
“I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. That actually just happened,” writer Laurie Penny wrote on Twitter after the incident Tuesday.
“I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi.”
Penny, a self-identified feminist, complained yesterday that she was insulted that media coverage of the incident portrayed her as a “damsel in distress.”
“I really do object to being framed as the ditzy damsel in distress in this story,” she wrote online.
“I do not mean any disrespect to Ryan Gosling, who is an excellent actor and, by all accounts, a personable and decent chap . . . But as a feminist, a writer, and a gentlewoman of fortune, I refuse to be cast in any sort of boring supporting female role, even though I have occasional trouble crossing the road, and even though I did swoon the teeniest tiniest bit when I realized it was him.”
She also compared life in New York to “being in a cheesy film.”
This is not the first time Gosling, 31, who lives in the East Village, has been applauded for heroics.
Last August, a YouTube video showed the “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” star breaking up a street fight on Astor Place.
The fight had broken out when someone pinched a painting from a street artist and the artist chased him down. Gosling defused the tension, calming both parties down and offering the artist $20 for his work.