Ryan Reynolds reveals he stopped getting paid during the filming of Deadpool and took a smaller salary to pay for the screenwriters to be on set
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Ryan Reynolds has shared details about his salary for the first Deadpool movie while promoting the upcoming third installment with co-star Hugh Jackman.
The Canadian actor, 47, has revealed he stopped getting paid during filming and took a smaller salary to pay for the screenwriters to be on set.
Ryan explained: 'I let go of getting paid to do the movie just to put it back on the screen: They wouldn’t allow my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room.'
The Marvel star said that despite having to give up his pay, it was worth it to help the creative team which was struggling working with a tight budget.
He said: 'I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money. It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie.
Ryan Reynolds has shared details about his salary for the first Deadpool movie while promoting the upcoming third installment with co-star Hugh Jackman
The Canadian actor , 47, has revealed he stopped getting paid during filming and took a smaller salary to pay for the screenwriters to be on set
'I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it and I hadn’t felt like that in a long, long time. I remembered wanting to feel that more — not just on Deadpool, but on anything.'
Deadpool was released in February 2016 and earned nearly $783 million at the worldwide box office.
Ryan and Hugh, 55, star in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine and both discussed portraying superheroes in a recent article by The New York Times .
'No part of me was thinking when Deadpool was finally greenlit that this would be a success,' Reynolds admitted about the 2016 R-rated movie during a video call in late June with Jackman.
The third film in the Deadpool franchise features Reynolds reprising his role and Jackman joining with his title character Wolverine.
Deadpool & Wolverine is scheduled to be released in theaters on July 26.
The highly anticipated superhero sequel also stars Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Matthew Macfadyen and Jennifer Garner.
Reynolds also told the NYT that his daughter James, nine, already has watched the R-rated upcoming film along with his mother Tammy Reynolds.
Ryan and Hugh, 55, star in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine and both discussed portraying superheroes in a recent article by The New York Times
'Well, I'm not saying that other people should do this, but my nine-year-old watched the movie with me and my mom, who's in her late 70s, and it was just was one of the best moments of this whole experience for me,' the A-list actor told the newspaper.
Reynolds said he was encouraged by the reaction he received amid the multi-generational audience for the motion picture.
'Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be,' he said.
Reynolds shares four children with wife Blake Lively, 36 - daughters James, nine, Inez, seven, and Betty, four, and a fourth child who was born in February of 2023.
He told the newspaper that he wasn't tentative to show his eldest child the R-rated film, as he watched many at that age and felt they helped provide an influence that would serve him later in his life.
The pair are currently on the promotional tour for Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool and Wolverine are shown in a trailer for the upcoming Marvel Studios film
'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,' Reynolds said, 'and it's been a huge inspiration to so many of the things that I look to make now.'
In the interview, Reynolds also explained the massive impact the Deadpool character has had on his career.
'I was an actor who was semi-well-known,' Reynolds said. 'I don't know how you would phrase that without sounding like a dink.
'But I was 37 when Deadpool had its pop-culture phenomenon moment, and I'm really grateful I was, because I knew exactly how to enjoy it.'
