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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in “La La Land”<\/em><\/p>\n Step into the city where the biggest and brightest stars are made in this year\u2019s most anticipated romantic musical \u201cLa La Land\u201d starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling with John Legend in his first major screen role.<\/p>\n Directed by Damien Chazelle, who also helmed the phenomenal and unforgettable \u201cWhiplash,\u201d \u201cLa La Land\u201d is a breathless, thrilling romance that intertwines the worlds of Sebastian and Mia who are trying to find their place in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.<\/p>\n The jazz pianist Sebastian, played by Academy Award\u00ae nominee Gosling, has a near-miss with the greatest love of his life. A defiantly retro jazz diehard who doesn\u2019t believe in compromising his convictions for anyone or anything, at first he brushes off Mia (Stone) as just another person who will never comprehend him or the gravity of his dreams \u2013 but that does not go as planned.\u00a0 An equal magnet for Gosling was the intrigue of playing a man who worships with his very being\u00a0 an artform that seems to be dying on the vine of a ruthlessly fast-changing pop culture.<\/p>\n \u201cSebastian has dedicated his life to being a great jazz pianist, but in his mind the world around him is saying those days are over. His heroes were born 70 years ago, and in this day and age, a great piano player playing real jazz is destined to work in bars where people don\u2019t even stop their conversations to listen to you,\u201d Gosling notes. \u201cSo how much do you compromise to be the artist you want to be?\u201d<\/p>\n The aspiring actress Mia (Stone) seems to be caught in an endless loop from her barista job to dead-end<\/p>\n auditions when she finds herself repeatedly bumping into the same ill-mannered pianist in a convertible \u2013 who breaks the spell.\u00a0 Playing Mia is Academy Award\u00ae nominee Emma Stone, whose roles have ranged from \u201cSuperbad\u201d and \u201cEasy A\u201d to \u201cThe Help\u201d and \u201cBirdman.\u201d<\/p>\n Stone faced a one-of-a-kind challenge with the role \u2013 playing a character who has to be at once anchored in very real goals and feelings, while also able to erupt into musical fantasia at a moment\u2019s notice, combining the two seamlessly. It helped that Stone has not only explored the depths of dramatic roles, but also has the skills of a Broadway veteran who recently starred as Sally Bowles in the revival of Cabaret.<\/p>\n Mia\u2019s yearning for something beyond the ordinary also hit home with her. \u201cMia is driven by something that maybe she doesn\u2019t completely understand,\u201d says Stone. \u201cShe wants to be an artist in a city of so many people who seem to be just like her. She feels that there’s something special inside her but she doesn’t quite know what it is. I could relate to her being an actress and going on auditions but even more so, there was something so exciting about taking her into this musical world where you can suddenly spin down the street or burst into song. That was a wonderful challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLa La Land\u201d opens January 11 in cinemas from Pioneer Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Step into the city where the biggest and brightest stars are made in this year\u2019s most anticipated romantic musical \u201cLa La Land\u201d starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling with John Legend in his first major screen role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1873,1953,1871,1952,503,1816,1659,1874],"class_list":["post-11895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-emma-stone","tag-hollywood-film","tag-january-11","tag-john-legend","tag-la-la-land","tag-philippine-cinemas","tag-pioneer-films","tag-ryan-gosling"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/ryan-gosling-and-emma-stone-in-LA-LA-LAND-e1483956421235.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}