Deadpool & Wolverine may be rated R, but Ryan Reynolds didn’t let that stop him from watching the upcoming film with one of his daughters and his mother.
In a conversation with The New York Times alongside his co-star, Hugh Jackman, Reynolds opened up about the Deadpool sequel‘s R-rating.
“Well, 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. Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be.”
He reflected on watching R-rated movies as a child and how they left a “huge impression” on him, so much so that they play a part in the projects he takes on as an adult. He then transitioned into talking about how much it meant for him to work with Jackman.
“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 said. “I love that. I get goosebumps even just talking about it. That’s the kind of stuff that I will carry with me til my inevitable death.”
Elsewhere in the profile, the Free Guy star and producer recalled meeting The Greatest Showman star on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he portrayed Deadpool for the first time.
“Hugh probably had the biggest imprint on me,” he said. “I will never forget seeing what it looked like to lead and produce a movie with humility and a level of graciousness that I frankly had never seen in this business before.”
He remembered Jackman showing him how an actor could be successful, content and good at what they do without being “some tortured schmuck who’s willfully hurting themselves to find some kind of vaporous artistic truth.”
The Adam Project star and producer shared that the Oscar-nominated actor approached him while they were shooting the 2009 film and asked him how he was feeling. When he told him that he wished he could go back to a scene they shot earlier, Jackman asked everyone to get back into position and do it again.
“He didn’t even know me, we had just met,” Reynolds said. “I thought, ‘If I’m ever lucky enough to be breathing the rare air that this guy breathes, this is how you do it.’ I still pinch myself because we can be best friends, but I can also be going, ‘That’s Hugh fucking Jackman, wow.’ That never gets old.”
Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters July 26.
