Ryan Gosling Wouldn't Change Much in His Career -- Except His 'Hamburger Hands' on 'La La Land' Poster

La La Land received one of the most memorable do-over moments in Hollywood history when the film was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture winner at the 2017 Academy Awards, which was actually presented to Moonlight. But the film's leading man Ryan Gosling would rather go back and change a more crucial, aesthetic error about the movie: it's promotional poster.

"La La Land. There is a moment that haunts me," Gosling recently told The Wall Street Journal Magazine when asked if there were any particular roles he would want to do over. "We're dancing, Emma [Stone] and I, and I didn't know this would become the poster for the movie. We were supposed to have our hands up, and I thought it would be cool to put my hand [more flat] even though everyone told me it wasn't cool. I was sure it was cooler."

The La La Land poster features Stone and Gosling dancing with the lights of Los Angeles and the stars in the sky twinkling in the background. It's a sweet image — Stone in a bright yellow dress and completely lost in her dance while Gosling contorts his body into a backwards "C" shape and extends his hand flat out like he's imitating a bird or a plane.

"Now when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would've been cooler…[the intended pose]," Gosling added. "It just killed the energy that way. I call it La La Hand." The correct term for the motion is "hamburger hands," the journalist told the actor, who quipped back: "Hamburger hands Gosling over here."

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There are worse regrets to have in Hollywood than making a weird hand motion of the poster of an acclaimed and award-winning film, at least. The latest string of Gosling's films include few misfires on their posters or otherwise. The actor is currently promoting The Fall Guy, in which he stars alongside Emily Blunt. Last year, he redefined what it means to be a Ken in Greta Gerwig's Barbie alongside Margot Robbie. And the year before that, he teamed up with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas for The Gray Man.

"I don't really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place," Gosling told The Wall Street Journal Magazine. "This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us. The decisions I make, I make them with Eva and we make them with our family in mind first."