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What Is Ryan Gosling Whispering to This Woman at the Oscars?

An Oscar-worthy meme.

Jimmy Kimmel added several painful minutes to the Academy Awards on Sunday by welcoming a group of tourists off a bus in Hollywood into the Dolby Theatre. The tourists — who looked understandably star-struck and also like maybe this whole bit had been planned in advance — included a man named Gary from Chicago who would quickly become the Ken Bone of the evening. Gary’s fiancée (Denzel Washington mock-wed the couple during the show) was also in attendance.

Though we did not learn her name, we did receive several key pieces of information about her during the gag. One: She’s pro-selfie stick. Two: She was not about whatever it was Ryan Gosling whispered in her ear. And three: Her face in that moment of displeasure (or shock, or horror, or who really knows) is highly meme-able.

Ryan, if you’d like to let us know what you said we’d be happy to update this post.

What Is Ryan Gosling Whispering to This Woman at the Oscars?