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RYAN REYNOLDS: Hi, everybody.
I was expecting, like, a tiny room, with like, 20 people.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yeah, this is a tiny room for us.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Good lord.
Wow.
This is amazing.
All right.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Hi, everyone.
Welcome to Talks at Google.
Today it is my pleasure to welcome
Ryan Reynolds for "Deadpool."
RYAN REYNOLDS: All right.
Thank you.
Thank you very much here.
Very nice to be here.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Thanks for joining us.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
I feel like I'm rubbing shoulders with real power.
Here at Google.
Love it.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yes.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Ryan, how excited are you
for people to see this movie?
RYAN REYNOLDS: I am-- I could not be more excited, actually.
I'm 11 years excited.
When I talk about it, I'm always just grateful I'm
wearing an adult diaper.
This movie has been just the biggest pain in the ass
to get made, and somehow, some way, the movie gods
looked down on us and made that happen
through a number of illegal transactions,
not the least of which being our test footage leaking
onto the internet, uh, accidentally,
about two years ago.
And that's what gave us the green light,
so I'm thrilled to talk about the Deadpool movie,
because I never thought "Deadpool" would exist.
It's been an 11 year thing, and it's the worst relationship
we've ever been in.
But we're happily married now, and we're expecting.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Congratulations.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Would it be fair to say the internet helped
make this movie happen?
RYAN REYNOLDS: No, it would be absolute fact
to say that the internet-- the internet
is why I'm sitting here talking to you, quite literally.
It was the fans overwhelmed 20th Century Fox
Studios with hate mail.
I'm sure other illegal substances filled
in all sorts of containers.
They were vicious.
And they so overwhelmed Fox with feedback,
positive feedback about a Deadpool movie
that, yeah, here we are.
In relatively short order they basically
said, go make your movie, and leave us alone.
Because we were sending emails-- we
sent emails to the heads of the studio
that you would never send to the head of a major film studio.
They were just, like, just borderline illegal.
So, yeah, I think they were just happy to say,
here's the green light, now please leave us alone.
And they left us alone, so we got
to make the movie that we'd always dreamt of.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yeah.
How relieved were you when they said, yeah,
make an R rated movie?
Because you guys embraced that R rated--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah, we hugged it like a cuddly koala.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Hug is not the word?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes.
We dry humped a cuddly koala into an R rating,
which is weirdly legal.
We had a blast.
No, the only way to make "Deadpool"
is to make it without any kind of reservation,
and having it PG-13 just wouldn't really
allow us to have the creative freedom we needed
to sort of really bring to life, in the most authentic way,
this Marvel character.
And he lives within the X-Men universe,
so technically he's kind of orbiting
the same areas as, you know, Wolverine
and all these other guys.
So they're all sort of touched upon in the movie,
and we see a couple of other X-Men.
And I just think personally, on a personal level
it's just funny to me to see, like, this-- me
yelling at another X-Man that he's
a wheezing bag of dick tips.
And the fact that like, they let me get away with that
was refreshing, I'll say.
Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: My question is how would you
convince someone's grandmother to go see this movie?
Would that be the exact phrasing you'd use?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Wheezing bag of dick tips is a start, for sure.
No, I think what's funny is that a lot of-- I've
seen some older women at some of the screenings,
and they loved it.
I mean, but then again, they sort of
go in knowing what they're getting.
But in terms of-- no, I think you just
have to lift grandma up and physically
take her to the theater.
And yeah, just tell her we're going
to go see "On Golden Pond," part two, or "Driving Miss Daisy,"
or something like that.
And, yeah, hope it doesn't kill her.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Let's hope.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: What's been the most surreal experience,
either filming the movie or afterwards?
RYAN REYNOLDS: The most surreal experience
by far was the day I walked in to Film Illusions--
there's a gentleman named Russ Shinkle who's the guy
and Hollywood that makes all the really cool, you know,
superhero costumes.
You know, you go into a shop and you see, oh, there's Batman,
and oh, there's, you know, Spider-Man.
But he had spent months and months trying
to get the Deadpool suit right.
Our sort of edict at the beginning
was this has to look-- this has to be the most
faithful comic book to screen costume adaptation that's
ever been attempted.
And he met that challenge tenfold.
When I saw-- that was the most surreal moment,
where I saw the suit for the first time.
And I'm not exaggerating or trying to be funny-- I wept.
I, like, cried, because it was this 11 year journey.
And I thought, wow, we're off to the races here.
I mean, we really are on to something.
If we're starting the movie off on this foot, on this footing,
this is going to be really special.
So that was pretty surreal.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Well, speaking of the suit,
it's interesting to have a superhero who
we kind of don't always actually want to see his face.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah, no.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: For aesthetic reasons.
So how did you sort of approach that performance?
It looked like the eyes are animated a little bit, which
was awesome, but you also have to combine
that with your body language, and then
the raw physicality of--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
Well, we sort of-- in the screenwriting process--
we started developing the script six years ago.
Myself, Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick,
and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote "Zombieland."
And they're just, like, really fun, smart, engaging, really
funny writers.
And we all sat around-- we sort of felt like you needed it
for an origin story on Deadpool, we
need a third, a third, a third.
So a third looks like me, and then a third looks
like the scarred version of Wade, who we affectionately say
looks like Shrek took a shit on his shoulders.
And then you have the masked version of Deadpool,
and that is sort of the true embodiment of the character
and the spirit.
So it was always a challenge.
I mean, the mask, pushing emotion through the mask
is interesting.
Like I-- two days before shooting--
I produced the movie, so I got luxuries that I would never
have as an actor.
I actually got to assemble a small camera crew and say,
I need to just go into a room, I need
you to film me acting like a moron for about two days,
so I could just see how the suit behaves,
and how the suit moves, and how much expression I
can have through the suit.
So I learned a ton.
I got to do a lot of R&D with the suit, and we were shocked.
You could actually really kind of come through that.
There was a little bit of facial animation in the eyes, which
really helped us, but by and large, you know,
we loved the scenes where we're not even animating the face.
It just sort of works.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yeah.
It was great to see the sort of, like, the physical--
I'll say comedy parts, and then action.
And--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah, you have to be really big, you know?
You have to be like-- you have to sort of take
a tip from clown school, a little bit,
when you're in that thing.
So all my reactions are sort of huge.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: When were you first introduced
to the character of Deadpool?
RYAN REYNOLDS: I was on a set-- I was on the movie
"Blade: Trinity" which I hope most of you have not seen.
But-- no, there's some fun parts in that movie,
but it was a movie where I got to have a lot of fun.
I got to do the movie with my friends.
The movie was fraught with a number
of different frustrations that sometimes big movies can have,
but I played a character in that movie
that I guess resembles Wade Wilson in "Deadpool,"
and a rival executive at another studio
said, I saw a little piece of "Blade,"
and you're Wade Wilson.
You're Deadpool.
And I didn't know at the time-- this is in 2004--
I didn't know who Deadpool was.
And he said, trust me, if they ever
make a movie about Deadpool, you're
the only guy that can play Deadpool.
So he sent me over all these comics, and I--
I'm not a big comic book guy, but I really
gravitated toward Deadpool.
I fell in love with Deadpool.
The first issue I opened up-- I'm
not making this up-- I was on the panel.
Like, in the comic, it said-- Deadpool was saying-- somebody
asked him what he looks like.
He says, I look like a cross between Ryan Reynolds
and a shar-pei.
And I was like, Jesus, this is fucking destiny.
What the hell?
Who's fucking with me?
Is like, Kirk Cameron going to jump out
of the corner with his little candid camera,
and I'm going to offend him with my swears?
So I just kept reading them all, and I
was just so-- I fell so in love with this character.
He was like, meta.
He breaks the fourth wall, addresses the audience.
He knows he's in a comic book.
I mean, you know, in the film "Deadpool,"
Deadpool makes fun of Ryan Reynolds.
And I love that.
I love that he gets to do that.
It's kind of a groundbreaking, genre bending property.
And the fact that a studio let us
make it-- not just let us make it,
but let us make it as a rated R movie was just, I mean, crazy.
I couldn't believe it.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: I think Deadpool the comic character is
definitely very self aware, and--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: You guys very much embrace that.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah we did.
Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Pop culture, and other--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah there's a lot of--
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Cinematic history.
RYAN REYNOLDS: There's a ton of pop culture references.
And there's like-- the movie has over 100 Easter eggs, too.
I mean, it's just the little things, like-- some things
that you may not see, that I don't know if we'll ever
get the opportunity to shoot another Deadpool movie,
or another 10, if I have my way, I'll use in those,
so I don't want to really give them away.
But there's so many great little Easter eggs.
It was so much fun to plant all these things in the movie.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Of what you can tell us,
what was one of your favorite things to film for the movie?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, god, what-- probably my favorite scene
in the movie-- there's a scene where
Deadpool attacks another X-Man.
And I just liked it, that in this moment
we're really embodying the moral flexibility of the character.
I mean, that's one of the things that I personally
love about Deadpool so much, is that he ostensibly
looks like a superhero, but he's morally flexible in every way.
And that, to me, is just-- you get a lot of superheroes
that are tough, and they (GRAVELY)
talk like this, and all that.
But, you know, Deadpool's like-- he genuinely
is a guy that will just sort of help out whoever
has the fattest wad of cash.
And I love that about him.
And so there's a scene where he just-- his ego gets bruised,
and he just attacks this X-Man named Colossus.
And the scene-- he ends up breaking every bone in his body
attacking Colossus, and I just love that scene,
because he just never shuts up.
The whole time he just keeps this running editorial going
of everything that's happening, and it's-- that scene was a lot
of fun.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Every bone?
It was--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes.
Graphically.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: He's not exaggerating.
What's one of the things that you did in the preparation
process that you weren't sort of expecting
to have a large effect on playing the part?
RYAN REYNOLDS: The prep for me was easy.
It was basically being eased out of my mother's womb,
and then being fed enough to grow into adulthood,
and then beginning filming.
I mean, to me it was just was a matter of that marriage
between myself, Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick,
and just finding these two writers that
so understood everything that we were trying to do.
And those guys have been such a privilege, not only
to know, but to work with.
Also, the thing I love about Deadpool
is the marketing campaign is an extension of the film, which
is not normal.
You know, most times when you have
a character the breaks the fourth wall
and addresses the audience directly,
the possibilities for a film are obviously limitless,
but so is the marketing.
So for me, the marketing been a lot of fun.
We've been shooting-- I think we shot over 40 viral videos.
Maybe only 12, or 15 we've released.
We have so many.
I mean, it's just an embarrassment of riches,
but half the time it was just me and my iPhone just,
you know, shooting myself at the trailer, or wherever,
and while we were shooting.
So that part's been amazing.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yeah, I think you guys
have done a great job of building the excitement
amongst the fans.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah-- well, not that many people
knew about Deadpool a year ago, and I
feel like they've done a great job of really introducing him
to the uninitiated as well.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: What's been one of the greatest
sort of fan experiences?
Because I think there's a very rabid audience who's excited.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, Comic Con, man.
Comic Con was crazy.
Because the last time I was at Comic Con,
I was there for "Green Lantern."
And that was tough.
So you sort of feel like, I'm so close to Deadpool,
and I'm so intimate with it that I have zero objectivity.
I mean, absolutely zero.
So walking into Comic Con, everybody's
laughing and smiling, and Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick,
and Tim Miller, the director and everything,
they're all just laughing and backslapping.
And I just am sheet white and terrified,
because I have no idea.
I'm too close to it.
So then when our presentation played,
we showed them about three or four minutes of the movie,
and it finished, and they were all on their feet.
And then they started chanting, one more time, one more time.
And on the side stage, I looked over there,
and I could see the studio head, who
had waited 10 years to greenlight the movie,
just looking at me, like, with this smile on her face,
like, well, there you fucking go.
You know?
And Hugh Jackman was actually standing next to her,
because Wolverine-- they were doing a Wolverine presentation
next.
And he actually told them to play it one more time,
or they're going to fucking riot.
So they played it one more time, our presentation,
and that, to me, was like-- it was so surreal.
It was such a magical moment, I mean, just for everybody.
Because we didn't make the movie on-- I mean,
I always joked, like, our budget for "Deadpool"
was what most superhero movie spend on just cocaine.
So like, for us it was-- you know,
we didn't have $200 million to sort of make
all our dreams come true.
Every single cent counted, and Tim Miller, our director,
is like-- he's a visual effects guru.
He owns a visual effects company,
so he made every dollar magically turn into 10.
I don't know how he did that, and I'm so grateful to him
for like, making everything-- us being
able to realize our vision for the movie, and really
kind of put everything that was on the page
on the screen at a cost that you can't tell we compromised.
I mean, it still feels like you're watching,
you know, one of these movies with these massive budgets.
But just way less recreational drugs.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Would cocaine fall under craft services,
do you think?
RYAN REYNOLDS: I don't know.
You know, it's funny, but like-- obviously
that never happens anymore, but-- well, maybe it does.
But back in the '80s, they'd always
talk about the line costs on a movie and stuff,
and there'd always be, like, this miscellaneous line that
was like, $80,000.
And they'd just be like, oh, no, that was just individually
wrapped Norwegian toffee.
You know?
And you're like, right.
Right.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Whatever you wanna call it.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: We're going to take audience questions
in a moment, if anyone wants to line up.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Thank god.
No, I'm kidding.
You've been doing great.
You've been doing so great.
You've been doing amazing.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Thanks, everyone.
That's my two week's notice, and I'm out.
RYAN REYNOLDS: And a big hand for Dana.
Please, come on, she's amazing.
You've been doing great.
Thank you.
All right?
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I think a lot of people on the internet were curious,
were there any onset shenanigans, and if so,
can you tell us about any of them?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Wow.
Not a ton.
Like, surprisingly, for a movie like this,
there weren't a ton of on set shenanigans.
A lot of it was just alternate jokes.
I mean, we just had so much fun with messing around.
I mean, it was just a matter of time that sort of pulled us
away from each scene, but we would do 15 alt jokes
for every one you see in the movie.
So the home entertainment package,
or whatever the hell they-- I'm like, so old, I'm like,
the LaserDisc package for this film
is going to be exceptional.
No, but the digital package that comes after, they're
going to have everything.
I mean, the gag reel is just stupid, stupid funny.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Like a nine hour cut?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
You could do, like, a nine hour-- I mean,
there's so many little extras that that stuff's gonna be fun,
I think.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: And do you have a favorite furniture line?
Any--
RYAN REYNOLDS: A favorite?
Oh.
Oh.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Yeah.
Any thoughts on--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, from IKEA?
DANA HAN-KLEIN: It could be IKEA.
It could be, you know-- this is you.
RYAN REYNOLDS: The Orvaash is Deadpool's personal favorite.
But the Bjorsch, that thing's just absolute bullshit,
and I think we all know it.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: We'll let IKEA know.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
For anyone who hasn't seen the movie here,
they're just going, what the fuck is he talking about?
Deadpool in the movie forces his blind, elderly roommate
to assemble IKEA furniture all day.
Because he's a wonderful guy.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: He's a stand up citizen.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
AUDIENCE: So my question is, what's a fictional character
that you wish to have played, but haven't?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, that's a good question.
Not Bella from "Twilight."
Fictional character that-- there's a-- oh,
what's a boring answer?
There's a great prison baseball player
named Blackie Schwamb from, I think, the '20s or the '30s,
and he was known as the greatest prison baseball player ever.
He was a pitcher, but he was totally debilitated
by alcoholism.
And I've always been sort of totally
fascinated by his story, and so I
would love to play Blackie Schwamb in a movie
that nobody will ever make.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Well, they said that about Deadpool,
and then they made that.
RYAN REYNOLDS: That's true.
You never know, right?
Start writing your letters.
I know how passionate you all are about Blackie Schwamb.
So--
DANA HAN-KLEIN: It begins now.
It begins now.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Actually, what sort
of other-- what of your other acting
experiences you bring us-- there's
a moment that I was sort of reliving your performance in,
like, "Buried."
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Where I was like,
he's just really good at, like, freaking out in small spaces.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Were there any moments you were like, oh, no?
RYAN REYNOLDS: I am good at freaking out in small spaces.
I'm pretty-- like, I'm the first guy
to say, like, a movie I did, or a performance I did sucked,
but like, yeah, that's one gift I've always had,
is freaking out in small spaces.
And it's probably because I'm the youngest of four boys,
so I was often crammed into small spaces,
both for survival, and for torture.
But yeah, in the movie, in Deadpool I
certainly, like-- I'm choking to death, and I'm being tortured,
and I am fine with it, but the problem is
it blows all the blood vessels in my face,
so they have to end up, like, putting a lot of makeup
on to cover up my horribly, yeah, blood vessel blown face.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: And then put your horrible on in make up?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes, and then putting the horrible scar
make up on on over top of that.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Awesome.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Hi.
AUDIENCE: What is your favorite movie other than "Deadpool?"
So what is the movie that you're most proud of?
RYAN REYNOLDS: That I am most proud of?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, probably "Buried."
I mean, it was just because it was really difficult to do,
and everyone said it was impossible,
and I loved that experience.
We shot the whole thing in Barcelona.
The whole movie takes place in a coffin,
for those of you who don't know, and it's just a real Hitchcock
kind of thrill ride.
So I love that movie.
I still don't know why we shot it in Barcelona,
and we couldn't just do it my living room, but whatever.
I don't make the rules.
So, yeah.
AUDIENCE: Thank you.
RYAN REYNOLDS: You're welcome.
Thank you.
Hello.
AUDIENCE: Hello, So about the last time you played Deadpool--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Uh-huh--
AUDIENCE: --was there, like, an agreement
that if you played that less entertaining version, that you
would get to, like, do a full Deadpool movie?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Actually, yes.
There fucking was.
No, true.
I remember they said-- I sort of got the script,
and it was during the Hollywood writers' strike,
so there's no writers, so it just-- it basically
said Deadpool shows up, talks really fast,
annoys everyone around him.
So for the whole first half of that movie I play Wade Wilson,
and I'm just yada, yada, yada the whole time.
And I just had to make up all my dialogue, because there
was no one to write it.
And I had fun.
I love doing that stuff.
But the second half, Deadpool, they sew his fucking mouth
shut.
AUDIENCE: Right, he doesn't talk at all.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
Let lasers come out of his eyes, and he has, like, weird knives
that fly out of his hands.
And I remember saying, that's really
going to anger some people.
That's not Deadpool.
And they basically said, well, you know, you can play him,
or we can hire, you know, someone else to play him.
I don't-- you know, pick your guy.
So for me, it was a little bit, you know,
I was a little bit blackmailed.
I just said, you know, all right, let's do it,
I guess, and let's see what happens.
And then, you know, it's funny.
I probably shouldn't be saying this, but the--
which is why it's awesome.
After the movie had-- it was just about to come out,
"Wolverwine" was just about to come out,
and I got a call from one of the executives
at the studio who said, where are you?
And I said, I'm up in Canada.
He's like, we need you to fly here right now.
And I was like, what's wrong?
What's going on?
He's like, we've tested the movie,
and people are very upset about the Deadpool.
About everything we did with the Deadpool.
And I was like, you fucking did it!
I told you!
And they said, we shot this little tag that
happens at the very end, after the credits, where
Deadpool's severed head is on the ground, and I open my eyes,
and my mouth is now open, and I go, shh.
And it was just so dumb, but we did it anyway, I guess,
to sort of make people think that there might
be another Deadpool after that.
Then it just rotted and died on the shelves of Fox forever.
They never wanted to make a Deadpool movie after that, so--
AUDIENCE: All right.
Perfect.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
But we made the right one now, so, there you go.
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
Looks great.
I can't wait to see it.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Cool.
Thank you.
Hey, there.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
So in the movie, you and the taxi driver
have a great relationship.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, yeah.
AUDIENCE: The question is, why does he
keep driving you around, and did he
get compensated for the movie?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes, we paid all our actors.
It was low budget, but they were definitely paid.
And no, in the movie, Dopinder does not-- he is not
compensated, unfortunately.
Deadpool only pays him in a crisp high five.
And at one point he gives him a crisp 10.
AUDIENCE: It was really--
RYAN REYNOLDS: And some life advice.
But no, Dopinder is that-- that name comes from-- my friend
in high school-- no, sorry, elementary school.
I went to school with this guy named Dopinder,
and it's actually-- we're paying tribute to him.
He was killed, he was struck by lightning, which
is so-- just utterly crazy.
Don't laugh.
They're all laughing about it now.
It's fine.
No.
And so that's-- Dopinder is a tribute to this guy, Dopinder,
that I knew in school.
He was a really cool guy.
Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Thank you.
RYAN REYNOLDS: There you go.
That was more information than you ever wanted.
Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Hey, Ryan.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Hey.
AUDIENCE: Who have been some of your favorite actors
or actresses you've worked with in your career?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Helen Mirren.
Amazing.
Sandra Bullock is like, as classy and fantastic as a human
being can get.
God, I'm thinking of other actresses
that I've worked with that I loved.
You know, some you might not necessarily know.
Traylor Howard, who I did my TV show with 155 years ago,
she was the girl in the show on "Two Guys, A Girl,
And A Pizza Place."
She was an awesome, awesome person.
But I've been lucky.
Mary Louise Parker's one that I think
is really talented, and super, super smart and cool.
So yeah, I don't know.
I've been pretty lucky in that department
I've had a lot of great, great co-stars.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Denzel Washington is a wonderful actress as well.
AUDIENCE: IN case you've ever heard of him.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
Thank you so much for your time.
I think back on your career, and you've
done such a variety of different genres of movies,
from, you know, Sandra Bullock in "The Proposal,"
to animated movies, and these adaptations now.
What would you say have been the challenges
of doing these different genres, and then also
the favorite parts to, say, doing
voice animation versus doing something more physical?
RYAN REYNOLDS: OK.
Well, my career is largely driven by desperation,
so this different genre thing is like, yeah, you
just-- you find a script that you like,
and you beg someone to let you make it.
The voice over acting-- I love voice over acting.
I love it, because there's zero ceiling,
and you can do and say anything.
And in a weird way, Deadpool is--
there's a lot of voice over acting in the movie, too.
So doing animated films has been fun.
Working on "Crudes," and now "Crudes 2" has been incredible.
And "Turbo."
And I just-- I don't know, I love it.
And it's nice that I can, you know,
have something I can show my one year old daughter.
For God's sake, everything else is just vile.
So, yeah.
Yeah, that's-- yeah.
AUDIENCE: All right.
Thank you.
RYAN REYNOLDS: You're welcome.
Thank you.
AUDIENCE: So the marketing for this movie has been insane.
I wanted to know, did you have a hand in that?
Did you say from the very beginning,
we should make Nicholas Sparks billboards to promote this,
or did that come in towards the end?
RYAN REYNOLDS: The Nicholas sparks billboards were not-- I
actually was like, the last guy on board with that,
because they were too good.
I was like, people are really going
to think that this is, like, the sequel to "The Notebook."
You know?
So I was a worried about that one.
And that was such a hit, and I think
there's a couple of our marketing guys in here
right now.
They're somewhere, they could raise their hands.
But they're chicken shits, so they won't do that.
They are geniuses.
But it has been a-- like I said, it's
been an extension of the film, which is so unusual.
So we've all had our hand in every little piece of it.
It's been so much of a harder job than the filming,
actually, because it's just been full time, around the clock.
You know, I've never had a social media calendar
that I have to adhere to, which has been just crazy,
you know, just trying to get stuff out, content.
We shot so many videos, so many viral videos.
Some I write, some Fox writes, some Rhett and Paul write.
So it's just been-- everybody's been all hands on deck.
But it's been so much fun.
I mean, everybody just loves it, you know?
I think a lot of the feedback we've been getting
is people are sad that the movie is coming out,
because the viral videos are gonna stop.
But that's just simply not true.
AUDIENCE: Thanks a lot.
RYAN REYNOLDS: We have many more.
Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: I think we have time for one more question.
AUDIENCE: Oh, great.
Hi, Ryan.
This is unrelated to the movie.
I promise to see it, but I just wanted
to ask you about being a dad, and your new baby.
Can you just talk just a little bit about that?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
I just found out I had a child.
AUDIENCE: Surprise!
RYAN REYNOLDS: She's like, a year old, too.
Walking and talking.
Has no idea who I am.
No, I love it.
It's the best.
Honestly, it's been incredible.
Thankfully, I have a wife that we both sort of
feel like we don't want to work at the same time,
so we have the luxury to be able to do that, you know?
Because oftentimes are jobs are in, you know, Thailand,
or our jobs are in Russia, or-- you know.
So we all kind of travel together, and stay together.
It's been amazing, you know?
My daughter wept, though, when I would come in with the scar
makeup on from "Deadpool."
That was--
AUDIENCE: Did Blake, too?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Really, really frightening.
Well, sometimes I'd just put it on just for fun,
so she hated that.
But no, it's the best.
Honestly, it's been like, the best thing.
Every cliche is so stupidly true, you know?
It's like, giving birth is like, you know,
one of the greatest privileges.
It's so common, but it's like, one of the most profound things
that happens.
So many people do it.
But I'm always careful when I talk about it, because, like, I
know so many celebrities that talk about when they have
a child, like, they're the only fucking human
being alive that's ever squeezed a kid out of them.
So I'm like, I'm a little-- I'm always
a little bit weary of that.
And I have one friend that is always like, my daughter is
quoting Chekhov.
And she's two.
And I was like, your daughter's an asshole.
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AUDIENCE: Thank you.
Thanks for coming.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah.
Thank you.
Let's not end on that.
Come on.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: OK you don't think
calling your friend's daughter an asshole
isn't the-- all right.
We'll go out on a different note.
RYAN REYNOLDS: You know, you do interviews,
and you're in my position, and you like,
just, you wake up in the middle of the night at a perfect right
angle, and you're like, why am I sitting up sweating?
And you're like, oh, that fucking question.
I answered that question.
I said that thing, yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: It's just the internet, you know?
RYAN REYNOLDS: I know.
It's just the internet.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: Nobody uses Google.
RYAN REYNOLDS: We're all gonna be fine.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: All right, well, where do you
think the character Deadpool could
do the most good in the world we currently live in?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Oh, where he could the-- oh my god.
Well, certainly the presidential election
would be someplace where I would implement his unique--
DANA HAN-KLEIN: He's Canadian, though.
I don't know if he can--
RYAN REYNOLDS: Unique skill set.
Yeah, I know.
He can't-- we did run a brief Deadpool for El Presidente
campaign in the middle of last week, I think,
but we pulled it the same day, because he's just too immature
for that.
So I think he could do some good there.
I'd love to see him as a pundit, because he can't really focus.
So it would be fun to just see the tangents, you know?
Love to see Bill O'Reilly handle him.
Yeah.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: A pundit with a mouth.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Right?
Exactly.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: It's got a good ring to it.
"Deadpool 2, the Pundit with a Mouth."
RYAN REYNOLDS: Yeah, exactly.
DANA HAN-KLEIN: All right.
Well, thank you so much for joining us today.
RYAN REYNOLDS: Thank you so much.
Thank you guys for having me.
This was really fun.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
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