Eva Mendes kicked off the New Year by winning over Ryan Gosling’s mother. The actress, who began dating Gosling after the two co-starred in the film “The Place Beyond the Pines” this past summer, met up with the mother-son duo Sunday after they were spotted spending some quality time together in New York.
"They all hung out and went to the movies together," a source told People of the get-together at an AMC movie theater in uptown Manhattan. "Ryan and Eva seemed very happy."Dating since September, the couple appears to be getting serious as this is believed to be the first time Gosling has introduced Mendes to his family.
It’s a big move for the Canadian heartthrob, who recently boasted about being raised by his mother in a single-parent home. "I think like a girl,” Gosling, 31, told The Independent. “I was literally raised by my mother and my sister. And I just feel like I wouldn't know how to think any other way … My sister was my best friend and my hero growing up. Because I was home-schooled I didn't have a lot of friends and I did ballet, which was always just girls. All of that had an effect on my brain."
Now that Mendes,37, is the main woman in Gosling’s life, the couple has been having a difficult time hiding their blossoming romance. After witnesses watched the pair “kissing and hugging” before boarding their flight to New York from L.A. on Friday, Mendes and Gosling continued their PDA streak when they were spotted leaving the Bowery Hotel together on New Year’s Eve. "While they waited for a cab outside the hotel, they kept kissing," an onlooker told People. "They both looked very happy."