Ryan Reynolds says watching 'Deadpool & Wolverine' with his daughter and mother was 'one of the best moments.'
Deadpool & Wolverine is bringing Ryan Reynolds' family together. The actor opens up about a bonding experience he shared with his eldest daughter, James, and his mother, Tammy, while watching his new R-rated superhero film.
"I'm not saying that other people should do this, but my 9-year-old watched the movie with me and my mom, who's in her late 70s, and it was just one of the best moments of this whole experience for me," Reynolds tells The New York Times. "Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be."
Reynolds, 47, shares four children with wife Blake Lively, 36. The couple, who wed in 2012, are parents to 9-year-old daughter James, 7-year-old daughter Inez, 4-year-old daughter Betty, and a 1-year-old child whose name and sex have not been publicly revealed.
"When I saw rated-R movies when I was a kid, they left a huge impression on me because I didn't feel like people were pulling punches, and it's been a huge inspiration to so many of the things that I look to make now," Reynolds tells the outlet.
The revelation comes as Reynolds is explaining that his latest Deadpool sequel uses its R-rated material not only to deliver shock value but to tell a "much more authentic" story "than you could if you were bound by a PG-13 rating."
In Deadpool & Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, 55, returns to the character he last played in 2017's Logan. The new film marks Disney's first R-rated offering since the studio's acquisition of the characters from 20th Century Fox -- which released the first two Deadpool films -- in 2019.
"In terms of the emotion, I’ve waited forever to do a movie with this guy, and I think he’s waited a long time to do something like this with me, so there are scenes where it’s pretty hard to distinguish between Wade Wilson talking to Logan and Ryan talking to Hugh," Reynolds shares with NYT. "I love that, I get goose bumps even just talking about it."
When ET spoke with Reynolds in April, he joked about his dueling bromances with Jackman and his Welcome to Wrexham counterpart, Rob McElhenney, with whom he co-owns the Wrexham Association Football Club. The Red Notice actor joked that it may have taken Jackman some time to understand he isn't the only man in Reynolds' life after McElhenney, 47, purchased the Welsh soccer team back in 2020.
"Oh, he's a very jealous person," Reynolds joked of Jackman. "It's a real proprietary sense of meaning in everything I do... [I'm] just Hugh's little meat puppet."
All jokes aside, Reynolds and director Shawn Levy both credit Jackman with providing the key element to bring the third Deadpool installment to the big screen.
"We had been trying to craft a story for several months. We had some interesting approaches, but it never gelled. Literally within a day of Hugh joining this story, we knew what the movie was," Levy recently told Variety.
Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters on July 26. For more on the movie, check out the links below.
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