Ryan Gosling can solve all of your problems. Need someone to break up a fight? Ryan (he will be referred to on a first name basis, because he’s so media saturated we feel like we know him) will come to the rescue, a knight in sweaty gym clothes when someone steals your painting, as captured in the now infamous YouTube video where he is dubbed as “that guy from The Notebook” by the squealing fangirl who caught it on camera. Need someone to soothe your heartache? Ryan can woo you away from your ex-lover as he did for singer, Florence Welch, who claims watching his films made her recent breakup bearable. “I haven’t met him yet but we feel like we have because we’ve basically got his back catalogue,” she told The Sun. Or do you need someone to entertain you? Comment editor, Becky Chan claimed she’s been a Ryan worshipper before he was even a religion. “My devotion actually has less to do with his bum and more to do with the fact that he never ceases to entertain me. He has furiously resisted the typecasting claw of Hollywood and has a shelf full of distinctive films to show for it.” It’s official, Ryan Gosling is both the new Hollywood hunk and the panacea to Hollywood simultaneously.

Why does Ryan cause grown women and men to react like Justin Bieber fans? He’s about as uncontroversial as a chocolate-chip cookie, yet just as lovable; a classic that never needs to change. Ryan harkens back to when Hollywood had dignity. He’s a cool and confident Steve McQueen in the visceral thriller Drive. He’s Robert Redford, the horribly flawed yet still affable hero, in Ides of March.  Even Ryan’s accent is an old Hollywood affectation, “As a kid I thought having a Canadian accent didn’t sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore,” he told W in 2010. Despite his ubiquity in films, he manages to keep himself out of the tabloids except when he’s dating yet another 1940s-style brassy broad like his current squeeze, Eva Mendes. He’s got all of the old-school glamour in a world where actors purposely release their own sex tapes. This is hard to do in cynical Hollywood, but even they love him.

Before he was known for his not “photoshopped” six-pack, Ryan was the serious indie heartthrob. His most embarrassing role to date was in The Notebook, but even grown men cry while watching that. He garnered his first Oscar nod for 2006’s Half Nelson, as a drug addicted junior high teacher. Since then, he’s been churning out great performances faster than blogs spring up about him. He’s  been the love-addled, self-destructive husband in Blue Valentine and the introvert who falls for a sex doll in Lars and the Real Girl. Ironically, he was so rattled between emotions that it was tough to imagine him as the stud until Crazy, Stupid Love. Besides wearing a suit better than any other actor, Ryan also fronts an indie rock band Dead Man’s Bones about ghosts and takes ballet as he recently told The Independent. “A lot of the students are young girls so they’re there with their mums but they just kind of watch and tell me to keep it up.”

So who is the real Ryan? He’s probably not the man from the popular Feminist Ryan Gosling tumblr , which features memes of Gosling saying “Hey girl, gender is a social construct but everyone likes to cuddle.” In reality, he is almost annoyingly self-deprecating and in effect, even more amiable than ever. He spent most of ShortList’s interview avoiding their comparisons of him to George Clooney and was incredulous when they told him Brad Pitt respected his career. Ryan did admit, “I’m pretty sick of myself.” Well, we certainly aren’t and eagerly anticipate his next few films The Place Beyond the Pines where he plays a motorcycle stunt driver (yes, more driving, but he looks so good when he does it) and Gangster Squad, about the LAPDs feud with the mafia in 1940s. Any excuse to see Ryan in a fedora and we are there. Not to mention, the remake of Logan’s Run. Ryan hasn’t even seen the original, but we’ll forgive him.

In short, Ryan can do no wrong. He is Hollywood’s messiah, getting everyone into theatres whether it’s just to drool or see some of the best performances of the year.