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That's, uh, that's real. [Music] [Applause]
Ryan Reynolds shares hilarious stories, discusses training for Deadpool, and talks about family on The Ellen Show.
Key Takeaways
- Ryan Reynolds is deeply connected to his Canadian roots and family.
- Training for action roles involves rigorous physical and technical preparation.
- Deadpool is a unique, meta superhero film with an R-rating and strong fan appeal.
- Ryan values his role as a father alongside his acting career.
- His humor and candid storytelling make the interview engaging and entertaining.
What the video covers
- Ryan Reynolds talks about his love for Vancouver and his parents living nearby.
- He shares funny anecdotes about intense training and learning sword fighting for his movie roles.
- Reynolds discusses the challenges of prosthetic makeup and performing stunts without a double.
- He humorously recounts a painful Swedish massage experience.
- The conversation touches on the Deadpool movie, its R-rating, and the character's meta nature.
- Ryan mentions the emotional connection kids with cancer have to his character Wade Wilson.
- He talks about balancing fatherhood with his acting career and his young daughter’s development.
- The interview includes playful banter about co-stars and behind-the-scenes moments.
- Ryan demonstrates some sword moves he learned for the movie.
- The show highlights Ryan's charm, humor, and dedication to his craft.
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Speaker A
hello look at that yes Vancouver Vancouver in 1966 I love Vancouver I love it too it's beautiful there I get there as much as I can still yeah do your parents still live there they do they live just
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Hi, everybody.
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looks like there's a microphone in front of two people I hope it's them oh my God yeah oh there they are hi guys nice people you know it's interesting to look at them to look at them you'd never know they're
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Hi, you look great.
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sister once they they they're here because they're supporting you they your Premiere is coming up and they they've seen every one of your movies right they have they've seen them all you and Hugh are just like the two of you together that
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Thank you. You look fantastic.
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well we trained a ton for the movie I mean if you're going to stand next to that that guy you know look there's there's getting in good shape then there's there's there's getting in great no you're competing with look at your
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Thank you very much.
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for the most part I know you had to learn some kind of crazy sword thing we have to take a break and we come back you're going to show us this sword thing that you learned for months and it was
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We should put your hometown up too.
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Hugh Grant but know Hugh Jackman Hugh Grant doesn't look like that oh my God I am so sorry he might yeah I know I've been out of the loop for four or five months maybe he's been working out I
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Oh, we do.
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just outside of Sydney in Australia and so this this little kind of town that we were in and uh there was a couple of times I made the the the enormous mistake of working out with you uhhuh like what kind of things did he do what
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All right, we have it. We're, you're from Canada, right?
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was probably the the biggest mistake of my life second to the marathon maybe um uh it was it was uh actually just humiliating and awful the whole experience I I I finished it and I was in such pain I I never get like massages
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Hello, look at that.
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she says what kind of massage would you like and I I made the critical mistake of saying Swedish sort of joking but I think I angered her and uh I spent the next n 90 minutes on this thing I mean she she was
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Yes, Vancouver.
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when they're trying to submit like it's I'm good I'm good it's over can I can taste my thorax please stop stop and uh and uh she finally did but I know that I I know that I Anor the thing is is when
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Vancouver in 1966.
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hilarious all right so this this sword thing I mean first of all to do a movie like that you have to like like we're just talking about train like crazy but then you had to learn a sword thing that
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I love Vancouver.
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to know what you're doing you have to know how to handle them and you want to be up there and it's not a stunt double so you got to you know learn it which why we to give you time if that's not
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I love it too. It's beautiful there. I get there as much as I can still.
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going to be with a real sword and you're going to go over there ah all right okay all right I saw some over there okay they're back there this is the part of the show where we um arbitrarily take the life of an audience
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Yeah, do your parents still live there?
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them going and then you go over and then wow and then you finish with a little bit of that very impressive no want to no are you sure later put those back there maybe later I'll try I'm I'm all right with them not
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They do. They live just outside of Vancouver.
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little bit more and and why did people not want to make this movie and now those people must feel stupid I think they do I mean really anyone who said no to that all of a sudden they're looking
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Oh, in the, in the, um, there's little islands, right?
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20th centur fo they call the X-Men chi-ching so they didn't want to mess with their chiching butol worked I don't you know it just it really sort of fit filled a kind of a void in the marketplace I think and I I
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Is that?
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going to be sequels it sounds like there can't not be okay so tell everyone we're talking about it tell everyone what it is about uh de the Deadpool is about a uh a mercenary who uh come he has
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Yes.
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covered in scars so he puts a uh a mask and a suit on and and but he also comes out at the other side sort of slightly nuts and meta like he knows he's in a movie all of a sudden like he makes Ryan
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No, they're not part of the island people.
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naked I mean first like it's it's rated R so you know there's going to be so you're wearing this robe and then all of a sudden the robe catches fire and then you so the robe is off and you you do
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Oh, no, no, no. They're right on the mainland.
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to see things that you shouldn't see uh and you just kind of go for I kind of got an idea what it's like to maybe work in the adult film industry you're just sort of like by lunchtime you're just
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They're here today too somewhere. They're in the audience.
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that's what we've learned pretty much um but how much cuz I have some cash on this yeah I I think that that that broke me though I think I mean this morning I showered in a three-piece suit nudity is
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It looks like there's a microphone in front of two people. I hope it's them.
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because just accidentally someone really hits you and you are as we say you just yeah whoa you don't want to get hit there yeah and he's no I would imagine not so were you hurt and and how and how
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Oh my God.
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two days and it was um the entire set was on fire and it and and we could have shot it in one day except I had eight hours of prosthetic makeup so I get into the set around 1 in the morning and I
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Yeah, oh, there they are.
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so it's not a really comfortable process you know as I fight this this guy wielding this uh fire extinguisher that's incredible and you've been up since 1:00 a.m. getting makeup on and you can't really sleep because you sort
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Hi, guys.
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would be in maybe in another movie kind of yeah right the back that's not a sweater that's a sofa yeah a sofa sweater um all right we have to take a break and then we'll talk about you being the sexiest
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Nice people.
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you um you know I quite a while ago I was and I clear graduated to the the the next worst day yes sexiest D yeah I don't think there's a scientific method for choosing that I don't think they
Speaker A
You know, it's interesting to look at them, to look at them. You'd never know they're cannibals either.
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think you deserve that title and and because you are a dad and how old is your child uh she is a year old I guess well she's 14 months I when do you stop doing the months thing um it's it's kind
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Them?
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months then then we'll go to years or something yeah yeah you just graduated I don't so she's yeah running around talking and having a having a ball talking at 14 months isn't that young yeah she's yeah I guess she says she has
Speaker A
They look just like two normal people.
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I don't know how she I'm in a mask I mean what do you you know but yeah she knows that's me so well obviously you've worn that around the house yeah yeah yeah yeah only Wednesday nights yeah yeah there's no way she would know
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Wow.
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so unique and it just just they truly make kids' dreams come true and for whatever reason kids uh particularly kids that are dealing with cancer which is a very serious issue uh gravitate toward Wade Wilson the character play in
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I did not know that.
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little little spots and they're just absolutely incredible and uh so thanks yeah I mean any this anything anything you at home if can do for a wish is is just a great thing by me and I they're these people are amazing well you're
Speaker A
That's wonderful that he's telling people that on national television.
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is it's sort of like a Jacuzzi but you're above it and then if I if I hit something with a ball and it it drops and then you're just a nice warm water naked um wow okay I'm in okay all
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You've raised him well.
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let's go over let's do it right let go let's go [Music] all right see look at that let's just let's just uh all right I don't know how long this will take cuz I actually am not good at this
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You're so proud of him right now.
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make they should make alarm clocks that do that yeah that' be a great way to wake up every morning oh wonderful to any any room you enter you have that right just boom and you get that more often if you were here more often you're
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Man, I had a sister once.
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walked out yeah yeah uh because uh she was sound asleep I went to say hello to her and I just saw the back of her hair and she look she seemed adorable oh she did yeah she did that's uh that's just a
Speaker A
They, they, they're here because they're supporting you.
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plane she's pretty good you know I mean you know flight I carry a blow dart so you know she's you know and then I just inhale one for myself them out um but no she's she's actually pretty good you know
Speaker A
Your premiere is coming up and they, they've seen every one of your movies, right?
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and um we uh we yes we had just FYI um it uh is that she's two uhhuh yeah so she's just just turned two so you've only had sex the twice two yeah it's uh it's a mercenary job
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They have. They've seen them all.
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book right the I badwell oh that's right you're right um all right so what did you do what were you doing in Abu Dhabi I was shooting a movie uh I was shooting movie called six underground um how long
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You and Hugh are just like the two of you together.
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cool to bring my kids to this this entirely new culture what did you do there I uh well we had Thanksgiving there which was you know probably I don't know if that was the mayflower's first choice but uh but we got we we we
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That must be, was well.
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much of the place as we could I mean our both of our kids were there so we wanted them to see as much as as possible but um I liked it I actually I actually really quite like I had a bit of time
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I mean, yeah, look, look at, look at this picture right there.
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went to like a barber in like a strip mall there um which and you've done movies you're not supposed to actually cut your hair without them actually supervising there's continuity and stuff yeah and it was just amazing it looked
Speaker A
Look at that.
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could do your hair there was but I had almost a week off before and I was like well I'm going home I have a I'm wearing a hat for the whole rest of the movie I may as well just uh get a just a
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Wow.
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there not a mirror in front of you there was and at the time it was like all happening in slow motion I was like this isn't I'm going to be fine there's no way it looks this bad the mirror is
Speaker A
I'll tell you that makes the Thunder from Down Under look like the Jonas Brothers right now.
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yes yeah yeah yes cuz she just married you for your looks I'm sure 100% 100% so if you lose that you've got nothing yeah she didn't she didn't she didn't marry me for my stanislavsky method I'll tell you that much uh so I heard that you're
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Ask me.
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if I decorated the whole house would just be like I don't know like old spit or something like there's no I'm I have none of that sensibility but my wife Blake is don't know how to decorate if You' use spit clearly uh uh she's
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Um, yeah.
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it and and you seem to I mean you brought your daughter by herself here so you love being a dad I love it it's like it's really kind of made me a better person I think you know I I I sort of
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Well, we trained a ton for the movie.
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know it's a dream you know it's the best they're like my buddies I I love it I love it D all right um we're going to take a break I think it's a good idea you're friends with Hugh Jackman
Speaker A
I mean, if you're going to stand next to that guy, you know, look, there's, there's getting in good shape, then there's, there's, there's getting in great.
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of Logan thing I don't know he's on this kickball change kick right now uh I can't seem to bring him back I can't seem to bring him back to the in Mayhem I'm trying uh I talk to him
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No, you're competing with, look at your arm.
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is Young okay all right all right we are back with Ryan Reynolds and we thought we would help raise a money for fudge cancer so we're playing something called Ryan Reynolds race to raise real fudging [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
Speaker A
I don't know. That is, see, I'm in good shape, but Hugh's in what's called terrifying shape.
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this red nose and antlers and make some folks shout out with Glee by taking a selfie with Helen I would love to Precious so wow yeah nose sure gets in the way of your kissing game doesn't it right that's
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Uh-huh.
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Jin but before each one okay say before each one say something you love about Hugh Jackman okay all right there we go I have daughters to raise oh I have to before each one okay um uh uh Hugh
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You know, he's, you should only be in that kind of shape if you're going to make a necklace out of someone's teeth.
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underwear since X-Men 2 [Applause] all right wow I could I can feel myself growing more powerful by the drink um uh uh I got one uh Hugh Jackman uh named his dog Hugh Jackman all right uh okay don't don't forget to
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Uh, that's how I feel for the most part.
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oh okay oh God all okay watch to all right there's something in there yeah oh that is that is surprisingly lovely that's fudge uh okay this is this is I I can't it feels sticky and and sad this is my
Speaker A
I know you had to learn some kind of crazy sword thing.
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get it I should have know delicious yeah delicious all right that was amazing our friends our friends at sharfly also think what you're doing with fudge cancer is amazing so they want to give you this check for $20,000 fudge gigantic novelty size
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We have to take a break and when we come back, you're going to show us this sword thing that you learned for months and it was in the movie for a minute.
Topics:Ryan ReynoldsThe Ellen ShowDeadpoolmovie trainingsword fightingVancouvercelebrity interviewfatherhoodprosthetic makeupHollywood
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