It ends up that Toronto’s Grinder Coffee wasn’t living in la-la land. Owner Joelle Murray really wanted to get actor Ryan Gosling to visit her coffee shop while he was in town to screen his new film, “First Man,” at the Toronto International Film Festival — even though the café is a 20-minute drive from the event. But Murray wanted it so badly that she decided to re-try a quirky plan — one Grinder Coffee had previously attempted with actor Idris Elba that wasn’t successful. The café posted photos of a cardboard cutout of the Golden Globe-winning actor on Twitter, with the plan to do so until he passed over the shop’s threshold. It all started with a simple photo and a dream:

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2018 19:18 UTC