Ryan Reynolds has revealed that he cried while watching Spider-Man: No Way Home.
In a new interview as part of Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ series, Reynolds spoke to Andrew Garfield about his return to the Spider-Man franchise in 2021. As part of a ‘multiverse’ storyline in the film, both he and Toby Maguire returned to their Spider-Man characters for the first time since leaving the franchise.
Garfield played Spider-Man between 2012-2014 while Maguire played the character between 2002-2007. Tom Holland currently plays the Marvel superhero.
The pair spoke about the franchises they had each starred in respectively and Garfield asked what the future holds for Deadpool after the latest instalment in the series arrived this summer.
Reynolds replied: “I don’t know. Honestly, my feeling is that the character works very well in two ways. One is scarcity and surprise. So it had been six years since the last one, and part of the reason is that it swallows my whole life. I have four kids, and I don’t ever want to be an absentee [dad]. I kind of die inside when I see their faces and they do a sports thing or something and I missed it. I don’t know what the future of Deadpool will be, but I do know that we made the movie to be a complete experience instead of a commercial for another one.”
He then went on to open up about how he thought Garfield and Maguire did this in Spider-Man and about how emotive he found the film’s scenes in which all three Spider-Men characters were on screen together.
Reynolds shared: “I love how you did this in Spider-Man: No Way Home: You’re weaving DNA strands of a cultural conversation along with the narrative of the movie. You guys did it in such a way that I burst into tears. One of the best feelings I’ve ever had is sitting in Hall H at Comic-Con and watching Wesley Snipes cross the frame and people are crying. They realize in an instant that they desperately missed this person, but they didn’t know they missed him.
“I think it’s OK to appreciate the spectrum of our business: You make movies like We Live in Time, intimate character pieces, and then you also do these movies that have this collective effervescence in a movie theater. The way you moved people in both of those movies is fascinating and singular to you. You and only you were put on Earth to do those.”
In a three-star review of Deadpool & Wolverine, NME wrote: “Despite the A-list distractions (no spoilers here), Deadpool & Wolverine is really all about Reynolds and Jackman. In fact, it’s really all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of playing the surly straight man trying to keep up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown. The first two Deadpool films were funny and violent and original, but this one shows Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his very best and worst.”
The film was a huge success in cinemas this year, with Reynolds and Blake Lively recently becoming the first married couple to top the US box office since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.
Released around the same time, Deadpool & Wolverine clinched the top spot, and Lively’s It Ends With Us captured the second, marking the first time the feat has been achieved since Die Hard 2 and Ghost took up the top two spots in 1990.
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