Eva Mendes says seeing Ryan Gosling, 32, play a father in their new film was "adorable."
The 39-year-old star struck up a relationship with the
Drive actor after meeting on the set of
The Place Beyond The Pines, and Eva admits playing parents to a little boy in the crime drama made her fall even more in love with Ryan because he was so gentle and caring. Asked whether her beau was good with kids, she enthused: "He's really good. He loves babies and he loved playing with the little boy we used in the film to play our son. It was adorable to see him in that light. There's one intense scene in particular where everyone has been screaming, including the baby. The beauty of that scene comes when Ryan picks up the baby and he immediately calms down and starts to fall asleep on him. That's just magical." The couple - who have been living together in New York for a year - might be two of the sexiest stars in Hollywood, but Eva insists she is attracted to Ryan because he doesn't pay any attention to how he looks and is refreshingly low-key about his image. In an interview with
The Sun, she said: "I know a lot of actors who are totally obsessed with creating a certain look, whether it's very polished or very street. I definitely don't need that in a man. A real man doesn't fuss about his appearance."