Perhaps there is something Ryan Gosling can't do? The Drive actor accidentally tattooed a "cactus" onto his body.

Gosling wanted to personally create a tattoo for himself, but when he tried to ink a monster's hand with a bloody heart onto his left arm, his needle skills left with a design that looked like the prickly plant.

"One of my tattoos is supposed to be a monster's hand dropping a bloody heart, but I did it myself with a tattoo kit so it looks like a cactus."

Despite the self tattooing disaster, it hasn't put Ryan off getting more pieces of body art and he has the cover of children's book The Giving Tree on his left upper arm because it reminds him of his mother and sister: "Another one is a ghostly lady and a skeleton and the other one is the cover of The Giving Tree a children's book my mother used to read to my sister and me - so that one is significant."