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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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