DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Ryan Reynolds Defends His Inclusion In Variety's "Actors On Actors" Series

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Ryan Reynolds Defends His Inclusion In Variety's "Actors On Actors" Series

There was some surprise among film snobs that Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds has been included in Variety's "Actors on Actors" series this year, and he's now defended both himself and comedy...

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By JoshWilding - Dec 07, 2024 08:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors is an annual series which sees each episode bring together multiple pairs of actors as they engage in intimate one-on-one discussions about their acting craft and work.

There's already been some controversy surrounding this year's series after it was revealed that no one was willing to be paired with Thunderbolts* star Sebastian Stan to discuss his role as Donald Trump in The Apprentice. 

When the full list was finally revealed this week, there was some surprise to see Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds alongside We Live in Time's Andrew Garfield (who many of you will know best for playing Spider-Man). 

One clearly unimpressed X user shared a now-deleted post reading, "Andrew Garfield talking about playing a husband and father who's wife decides to forgo cancer treatment and Ryan Reynolds talking about playing Deadpool."

That prompted an impassioned response from the MCU actor: 

"Correct. Andrew’s a genius. He and Florence are magic together in ‘We Live in Time.’ They’re heartbreaking and charming and spend the entire film in a high-wire act of humanity and constraint. And yes I am Deadpool, but I will take a second and speak up in defense of comedy."

"Dramatic work is difficult. And we’re also meant to see it’s difficult, which is one of the reasons it feels visceral and effective. Comedy is also very difficult. But it has an added dimension in that it’s meant to look and feel effortless. You intentionally hide the stitching and unstitching. I think both disciplines are beautiful. And both work beautifully together."

"Comedy and drama subsist on tension. Both thrive when subverting expectation. Both thrive backstopped by real emotion. And both are deeply subjective. Your favorite comedy might be 'Anchorman.' Mine might be Lars Von Trier’s 'Melancholia.'"

The Deadpool & Wolverine star makes a lot of very good points here and is arguably as worthy as anyone else listed. It's definitely an intriguing lineup, and you can likely see what the trade was doing with Wicked star Ariana Grande and Gladiator II's Paul Mescal after the "Glicked" hype!

Below is the full list of Actors on Actors pairing for 2024 along with Reynolds' X post.

Andrew Garfield & Ryan Reynolds 
Ariana Grande & Paul Mescal
Selena Gomez & Saoirse Ronan
Angelina Jolie & Cynthia Erivo
Zendaya & Nicole Kidman
Drew Starkey & Harris Dickinson 
Kate Winslet & Zoë Saldaña
Daniel Craig & Josh O’Connor 
Pamela Anderson & Mikey Madison
Colman Domingo & Kieran Culkin
Demi Moore & Amy Adams
Adrien Brody & Tilda Swinton

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Thing94
Thing94 - 12/7/2024, 8:33 AM
First off, go Trump and go Sebastian Stan. Second, good job Ryan. I truly appreciate your comedic take on Deadpool.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 12/7/2024, 10:04 AM
@Thing94 - as much as hollywood despises Trump they really have no shame profiting off his life story
Fares
Fares - 12/7/2024, 8:34 AM
I dislike how so many people forget what cinema can be, how broad it is, how there's magic in every kind of film. I hate how there's this unspoken rule that drama by default is somehow superior to every other genre.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/7/2024, 8:38 AM
@Fares - agreed

I also have started to dislike people even more looking down not just on the cbm genre but any really

It’s just such a sign of snobbery.
Fares
Fares - 12/7/2024, 9:47 AM
@TheVisionary25 - A lot of us, me included, get into that mind set in our formative years thinking that that's how things are supposed to be, we want to seem mature, we want to fit in. But with maturity should come the realization that that's not necessarily true, that one can be free from those made up rules, and enjoy more things without fear of being judged for it. It astounds me how many people don't reach that point.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 12/7/2024, 10:01 AM
@Fares - With age you also should realise more and more you can't spend all your time taking yourself and things you watch all being serious and thought provoking. If you don't allow yourself to relax and be self critical and fun along with at times enjoying comedy and/or formulaic types of action it can be easy to become bitter and isolated cos who wants to be around anyone for long who can't enjoy the lighter side of life too.

I STILL love weird arthouse films, the sort you end up spending hours after discussing what the underlying meaning of it all was and REALY heavy films like Schindlers list (and STILL primarily a scifi fan, esp the more serious/dramatic end of those) but with the way the world has been the last few years increasingly NEEDED, not just wanted to sit back and have fun watching CBM's more to escape all of the RL BS.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/7/2024, 10:16 AM
@Fares - well said man

I agree!!.
Fares
Fares - 12/7/2024, 10:26 AM
@Apophis71 - Amen to that dude
Polaris
Polaris - 12/7/2024, 11:02 AM
@Apophis71 - @Fares -

Exactly!!
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/7/2024, 8:43 AM
Well said…

There’s a reason that it’s said that comedy is the hardest genre to pull off and that if you can do that , you can do anything which I agree with.

Say what you want about Reynolds but comedy is all about timing which not everyone has which then further highlights the people that do like himself imo who understand the art of it.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 12/7/2024, 9:52 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Also tend to feel why so oft the best villains in both serious and action drama have a comedy background. When I was young found it a head scratcher why that funny person was suddenly a scary bad guy but then when your realise all that goes into making gags land effortlessly whilst also realising what makes some villains work so well is oft a kind of dark sarcasm and good timining with lines too it makes sense.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 12/7/2024, 8:44 AM
Good comedy is actually helluva lot more harder to pull off than a dramatic work and he's right, just because the task asks them to make it look effortless don't think it's easy.

Making people genuinely laugh ain't easy, try it yourself.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 12/7/2024, 8:45 AM
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TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/7/2024, 8:47 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - we get a repeat in the interview I bet lol
bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/7/2024, 8:52 AM
Melancholia is his favorite comedy? Cringe comment. Maybe he should start challenging himself and people would say stuff like this. Switch it up
NGFB
NGFB - 12/7/2024, 9:53 AM
@bobevanz - I believe this choice was meant to be ironic and/or sarcastic. Which is a form of comedy and is typically used by both Ryan and Deadpool. It would have been clearer if he went with a more easily recognized tragedy, like Macbeth.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 12/7/2024, 11:19 AM
@bobevanz - “Cringe” is your reading comprehension skills, he was just giving an example. “MINE MIGHT BE Lars Von Trier’s 'Melancholia.'"
MisterBones
MisterBones - 12/7/2024, 8:54 AM
Everything he is saying is right and yet none of it applies to his own work
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 12/7/2024, 11:20 AM
@MisterBones - How so? Do you think the comedic timing required to do Deadpool is easy? I bet most dramatic actors out there wouldn’t be able to pull off that character.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 12/7/2024, 5:29 PM
@Urubrodi - there are excellent comedic performances that should be recognized, his is not one of them. He has been playing the same character in every comedy he's done since Van Wilder, over 20 years ago. And he’s good as DP but he just so happens to be a man whose personality corresponds with this character
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 12/9/2024, 9:27 AM
@MisterBones - Yes, his personality does adds up to the character, but let's not act like that Deadpool is an easy role to play just because of that. Deadpool is like his personality dialed up to 1000, plus one of the great things about the Deadpool movies is that he knows when to add emotion and a bit of drama to the character. Ryan may not be the actor with the most range but let's not act that he's like a The Rock type of actor.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 12/7/2024, 9:00 AM
Kind of shocking that no one would pair with Stan. Maybe chilling is more appropriate.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 12/7/2024, 10:14 AM
@Dotanuki - If it had been Stan with any other film there likely would be no issue but seems from an outside PoV it is impossible to not piss off half of America one way or another directly talking about a film role as Trump. That is not meant to take sides on any of that, not that as a non-American I should need to say that, but at this specific time in particular I can't think of much that would likely cause more backlash than signing up to take on that acting role and/or then sit down and talk about that film/character.

IF it had been a couple years ago or in two more years then it may differ greatly but this specific year your either going to get one side of the aisle or the other (and possibly both at the same time) on your case fast (without even considering other potential ramifications).
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 12/7/2024, 11:58 AM
'Comedy isn't art' belongs in the same braindead category of takes as 'video games cause violence' and 'cartoons are exclusively for kids'

The guy thought he was being clever and pointing out an imbalance, only to show off his ignorance. Perfect.
SpiderBloke2099
SpiderBloke2099 - 12/7/2024, 2:57 PM
@OrgasmicPotatoe - came to say the same thing about animation. It's not a genre, it's a medium.
bcom
bcom - 12/7/2024, 3:03 PM
Ryan is an actor, why shouldn’t he be included? Variety let Kim Kardashian do one of these things so if they consider her an actor then Ryan definitely deserves to be on this list.
xstryker
xstryker - 12/7/2024, 7:10 PM
So they objected to Ryan Reynolds instead of Pamela Anderson?

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