Ryan Reynolds

Host: Hi everyone. Welcome to Talks at Google. Today it is my pleasure to welcome Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds: Right. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Very nice to be here. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. I feel like I'm rubbing shoulders with real power.

Here at Google. Love it. Yes. Yes. Host: Ryan, how excited are you for people to see this movie? Ryan Reynolds: I'm. I could not be more excited, actually.

I'm 11 years excited. I When I talk about it, I always is just grateful. I'm wearing an adult diaper.

The, This movie has been a, 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, accidentally about, two years ago, and that's what gave us the green light.

So I'm thrilled to talk about Deadpool movie, 'cause I never thought Deadpool would actually be, would exist. It's, it's been an 11-year thing, and it's the worst relationship I've ever been in. But we're happily married now, and and we're, we're expecting.

Congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. Host: Would it be fair to say the internet helped make this movie happen? Ryan Reynolds: The. No, it would be, 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 sorts of, all sorts of containers.

They were, they were vicious, and they so overwhelmed Fox with feedback, positive feedback about a Deadpool movie that yeah, here we are. With a relatively short order they were, they were basically said, "Go make your movie, and leave us alone." Because we we were sending emails to.

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, they.

I think they were just happy to say, "Here's the green light. Now please leave us alone." Host: 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, I hope most of you have not seen. But No, I there's some, there's some fun parts to that movie.

But it's, it's, it was a movie where I got to have a lot of fun. I got to do the movie with my friends. It was certainly the movie was fraught with a lot of, 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 I know, and a rival executive at another studio said, "I saw a little piece of Blade, and you know, 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 of, about Deadpool, you're the only guy that can play Deadpool." So he sent me over all these comics, and 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. Not making this up, I was on the panel.

Like, in the comic it said, Deadpool was saying, I. Somebody asked him what he looks like. He says, "I look like a cross between Ryan Reynolds and a Shar Pei."

So I just I kept reading them all, and I was just so in, 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, in the film Deadpool makes fun of Ryan Reynolds, and I love that. I love that he gets to do that.