Michelle Williams complains living with Ryan Gosling was horrible when filming Blue Valentine

It was no la la land.For Michelle Williams, living with Ryan Gosling while filming the 2010 drama “Blue Valentine” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.“We shot the first part where they’re young and in love and everything is going really well and then we took a two-week break and we lived together.Office hours, baby, like, 9 to 5.

Professional situation,” the actress, 44, said on Monday’s episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast.“So we did these improvisations during the day to, honestly, find out ways to annoy each other and to destroy this thing that we had made.”Williams revealed production didn’t want a break from filming, but she and Gosling, 44, were “having such a hard time letting go of the thing we loved.”The film’s director, Derek Cianfrance, would pop into the shared living space and leave them with a “scenario” in hopes of Williams and Gosling furthering their estrangement.

Williams reminisced on when Cianfrance, 51, would come back and say: “After you’ve had this frustrating day, now you’re going to go take your daughter to the amusement park and try and have a good time.”As she put it, “It was fun.”“Try selling that to a producer,” Williams teased about the freedom she and Gosling had to build out their characters and relationship. The pair went as far as to burn their characters’ wedding photos.“We learned how to annoy each other.

It was horrible,” the “Dying for Sex” star recalled.“I don’t want to give you reasons to hate me.

We were having such a good time.The party has to be over so soon?”“You don’t have to hate me, because now I hate me,” she stated about how the tables turned during filming.

“I’m annoying.We [were] calling forth all our worst qualities!”“Blue Valentine” followed Cindy (Williams) and Dean (Gosling) as a couple whose relationship goes downhill after falling in love in their 20s.Williams earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress f...