And just like that, Ryan Gosling disses ‘Hey Girl’ meme

With the drop of a microphone, the actor dispels his Internet infamy, saying he never once uttered the phrase that made him a viral phenomenon.

“I understand if you’re in a movie and you say something like ‘I’ll be back,’ you own that. But I never said it,” says Gosling while giggling with Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro at a panel conversation at South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 13.