Reynolds Still Excited About Deadpool

 

Worried that Ryan Reynolds’ increasing success means that he might step away from Fox’s Deadpool movie? A new interview should go a long way to making you feel better about that.

Talking to the LA Times, Reynolds’ enthusiasm about the project is infectious:

It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that… There’s a gamble to it — you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ’You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’ And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that…

Firstly, I don’t think he really said “nasty.” Secondly, what draws him to the character… is the character:

The comics are very inconsistent in the writing… All the different writers, different voices, but at the core of the character his heart is really interesting. He’s the funniest guy you’ll ever meet, too, and for me that’s exciting but it’s not as hard as capturing that moral flexibility, which is so important. He hasn’t really experienced the full spectrum of human emotion the way most people do.

Dammit, now I want them to make this movie.