Welcome Ryan Gosling! Here’s Four Unhinged Cameo Ideas to Welcome You to Days of Our Lives

HEY RYAN GOSLING! IS IT A VISIT? OR ARE YOU COMING TO PLAY!?

TL;DR: Ryan Gosling just accepted Deidre Hall’s invitation to visit the Days of Our Lives set, and because we are who we are, we came up with four completely unhinged cameo ideas that range from him becoming Susan Banks’ Elvis impersonator boyfriend to a resurrection experiment gone beautifully wrong in Dr. Rolf’s lab. Daytime Emmy, anyone?

The Man Said Yes and We Said “Now Cast Him”

Ryan Gosling just accepted Deidre Hall‘s invitation to visit the Days of Our Lives set after calling her his “OG acting inspiration” on a podcast. Not Brando. Not De Niro. Deidre Hall. The woman who sold a demonic possession storyline so convincingly that a kid in Canada decided acting was what he wanted to do. The whole exchange has been beautiful. And we are saying what every soap fan with a pulse is already thinking: a visit is terrific, but a cameo would be legendary.

So we came up with four ideas. Each one is rooted in something real, whether it’s based on a Gosling film, a Gosling fun fact, or on current Days of Our Lives lore. None of them are normal. That’s okay. Since when is Days normal?

Got a cameo pitch of your own for Ryan Gosling on Days of Our Lives? We want to hear it! Send your wildest ideas to [email protected] and yours might make it into a future article!

He Appears As Susan Banks’ Elvis Impersonator Boyfriend

Susan Banks already has an Elvis impersonator boyfriend. This is a real man who exists in her life, who gave her a gift on Valentine’s Day consisting of a ticket from Elvis’ last concert ever, and he’s out there right now doing a lip curl in a rhinestone jumpsuit while Susan tells anyone who will listen that she has finally found her soulmate. But he hasn’t been seen.

Enter Ryan Gosling AS Susan Banks’ Elvis impersonator boyfriend!? Who needs Ken when you can upgrade to Elvis?!

How about a one day appearance when “Elvis” comes to town? Walk into Salem in a white jumpsuit, oversized sunglasses, and a rhinestone cape, fully committed in the way only a man who sang “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars in a sparkling pink suit could commit. This is not a cameo. This is a cultural event.

He Brings a Doll to Dr. Rolf’s Lab

In the film Lars and the Real Girl, Gosling played a man who fell in love with a life-sized doll and treated her like a real person. The entire town played along. Now transplant that into Salem. A stranger walks into Dr. Wilhelm Rolf‘s lab carrying a mannequin and asks the mad scientist to bring her to life. Rolf, who has literally resurrected Stefano DiMera, Will Horton, and half the population of Salem, looks at this stranger like HE is the unhinged one. The comedy writes itself. Gosling plays it completely straight, exactly how he played Lars, and that deadpan sincerity against Rolf’s mad scientist energy would be the funniest thing Days of Our Lives has aired in years. And then, Rolf makes him disappear. That’s his specialty.

He Brings Dead Man’s Bones Back to Life

This one is rooted in real life. Ryan Gosling had a band called Dead Man’s Bones. They wrote love songs about ghosts and monsters. He grew up in a house his mother believed was haunted and his family moved because of it. He was obsessed with the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. AND he specifically said that Marlena Evans‘ possession storyline was one of many things that made him fall in love with Deidre Hall’s acting ability. So bring him in as a paranormal specialist who shows up in Salem claiming he can handle the next supernatural crisis. He is not ISA. He is not a priest. He is just a guy with a guitar, a bag of sage, and an album about ghost love who tries to perform an exorcism by singing to the demon. It does not go well. Marlena is both horrified and oddly charmed. And fans who discover the Dead Man’s Bones connection will spiral.

He Resurrects WAY Too Many Salem Citizens

In Blade Runner 2049, Gosling played an artificial being who didn’t know if his memories were real or implanted. Now put that in Rolf’s resurrection lab. A man stumbles out with no memory of who he is. He has fragments of multiple Salemites’ personalities. One minute he is quoting Stefano. The next he is acting like Roman Brady. Then he is suddenly giving tender Jack Deveraux vibes. Nobody can figure out who Rolf was trying to bring back because the experiment went sideways and this stranger is a patchwork of every consciousness Rolf ever stored. EJ DiMera is furious. Rolf is baffled. And Ryan Gosling doing impressions of Salem legends for an entire episode would be the kind of unhinged television that daytime was built for. He disappears after one episode and leaves Salem confused.

What else is new?

Then again, he could come back to play the new Chad for a day? The new Jeremy? A much older Thomas? Too many changes!

We’re just glad you’ve given soap actors a shout out, Ryan! And we’re loving you right back.

Which cameo would you lose your mind over? Susan’s Elvis boyfriend? The doll in the lab? The ghost singer exorcist? Or the Rolf Replicant? Fight it out in the comments because this is exactly the kind of chaos Salem was built for!

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