Brianna Hildebrand on Auditioning for ‘Deadpool’
“When I auditioned, her name was Kathy, because they do these codenames. I didn’t know anything about the film at all” – Brianna Hildebrand on ‘Deadpool’
Ryan Reynolds on Indie Films and the “Uptown Problem” of Being a Character Actor in a Leading Man’s Body
“Actors get an undeserved amount of credit when a movie works. The same is true when it doesn’t work. So you kind of take the good with the bad” – Ryan Reynolds
Biography: Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after leading men, with two very distinctive recent hit projects that surpassed the $300 million mark at the global box office: the romantic comedy The Proposal, opposite Sandra Bullock, in which he played a guy forced to marry his boss to curtail her deportation, and the fantasy-adventure X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in the role of Deadpool.
Ryan Reynolds: “The spotlight can be a very stressful place to be”
“That’s the thing I learned early on: No matter how preposterous it is, I don’t say a word (about tabloid stories), ever.
Blake Lively on her role in “Green Lantern”: “As soon as I got the role, I was quickly humbled about how naïve I was”
“I actually knew nothing about Green Lantern, and I imagined that nobody else in the world knew anything about Green Lantern.”
Warning: Don’t Skype with Ryan Reynolds
When, towards the end of the article, he was asked if he had any projects coming up, Reynolds said, “I don’t really know what I’m going to do next. I’ll meet with some directors via Skype.”