Time travel in movies is fantastic, especially when it puts a hottie like Ryan Gosling in 1940′s gangster-era gear! The 30-year-old, Canadian native was spotted with co-stars Michael Pena and Robert Patrick during the filming of The Gangster Squad in Los Angeles, California on September 16, 2011.

The crime drama follows a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1940s which was tasked with ridding the city of real-life gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) and his crime operation.

Gosling stars as police sergeant Jerry Wooters, Pena plays officer Navidad Ramirez, and Patrick is taking on the role of gangster Max Kennard– filling in the vacancy left by Bryan Cranston.