United Kingdom, June 19 -- Ryan Gosling loved "bonding" with Eva Mendes' family over household chores.

The 51-year-old actress has revealed how a love of cleaning together was instilled with her from childhood, and when she started dating her now-husband in 2011, she found that he had a similar passion.

She told New Beauty magazine: "I always thought it was a Cuban thing that we love to clean, and we love a clean kitchen.

"Some of my best memories from when I was little are of my mom cleaning the house over the weekend.

"She'd be playing a record super loudly, and it would wake me up. There was the smell of Pine-Sol and the sounds of her singing to El Puma."

Eva and Ryan met while working together on The Place Beyond the Pines, and h...