Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes trade Hollywood for London privacy

“They love the laid-back lifestyle of London. It’s easy for them to move around unrecognised,” says a source.

‘Plus, Eva has made some friends, which is very important to her as she has been such a recluse in recent years.’

The couple and their daughters, Esmeralda, 11, and Amada Lee, 9, live in an exclusive area that is also home to other A-listers including Harry Styles, Jude Law and Emma Thompson.

Sources said it is an ideal place for the family, where the Hollywood hunk, 45, is filming the upcoming movie Star Wars: Starfighter in London. Rumor has it that Mendes, 51, will play his wife in the sci-fi epic.

“They made a pact about a year ago to travel more as a family, which happened to coincide with Ryan leaving his role in the Star fighter,” the insider revealed.

‘But even without that work incentive, they wanted to leave America. Los Angeles in particular had become stale and boring for many reasons.”