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 47-year-old Canadian actor revealed that he stopped being paid during filming and accepted a smaller salary to pay the writers who were on set.
Ryan explained: ‘I stopped getting paid to make the movie just to get it back on screen – they wouldn’t let my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took what 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 salary, it was worth it to help the creative team who were struggling to work on 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 encouraged a focus on characters 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 47-year-old Canadian actor has revealed that he stopped being paid during filming and accepted a smaller salary to pay the writers who were on set.
“I was so immersed in every micro detail, and I haven’t felt that way in a long time. I remember wanting to feel that way more, not just in Deadpool, but in anything.”
Deadpool was released in February 2016 and grossed nearly $783 million at the worldwide box office.
Ryan and Hugh, 55, star in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine, and both spoke about playing superheroes in a recent article in The New York Times.
“There was no part of me that thought that when Deadpool finally got greenlit that it would be a hit,” Reynolds admitted of the R-rated 2016 film during a late June video call with Jackman.
The third film in the Deadpool franchise features Reynolds reprising his role and Jackman teaming up with his titular character, Wolverine.
Deadpool & Wolverine will 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 her nine-year-old daughter James has already seen the upcoming R-rated film with her mother Tammy Reynolds.
Ryan and Hugh, 55, star in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine, and both spoke about playing superheroes in a recent article in The New York Times.
“Well, I’m not saying other people should do this, but my nine-year-old daughter watched the movie with me and my mother, who is in her 70s, and it was one of the highlights of this whole experience for me,” the A-list actor told the paper.
Reynolds said he was encouraged by the reaction he received among the film’s multigenerational audience.
“They were both laughing out loud, feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would feel it,” 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 2023.
He told the paper he had no hesitation in showing his oldest son the R-rated film, as he saw a lot of them at that age and felt they helped provide an influence that would serve him well later in life.
The couple is currently on the promotional tour for Deadpool and Wolverine.
Deadpool and Wolverine are shown in a trailer for the upcoming Marvel Studios film
“When I was a kid I watched R-rated movies, and they made a big impression on me because I didn’t feel like people were pulling any punches,” Reynolds said, “and it’s been a big inspiration for a lot of the things I want to do now.”
In the interview, Reynolds also explained the massive impact the character of Deadpool has had on his career.
“I was a pretty well-known actor,” Reynolds said. “I don’t know how you could say that without sounding like a fool.”
“But I was 37 when Deadpool had his pop culture moment, and I’m really grateful I had it, because I knew exactly how to enjoy it.”