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Speaker 1

00:09

Hi, everybody. I was expecting a tiny room with 20 people.

Speaker 2

00:15

Wow. This is a tiny room

Speaker 3

00:16

for us.

Speaker 1

00:17

Good lord, wow. This is amazing.

Speaker 2

00:20

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Talks at Google. Today, it is my pleasure to welcome Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool.

Speaker 1

00:26

Right, thank you. Thank you very much. Very nice to be here.

Speaker 2

00:31

Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 1

00:32

Yeah. I feel like I'm rubbing shoulders with real power. We're at Google. I love it.

Speaker 2

00:38

Yes. Ryan, how excited are you for people to see this movie?

Speaker 1

00:43

I could not be more excited, actually. I'm 11 years excited. When I talk about it, I'm always just grateful I'm wearing an adult diaper.

Speaker 1

00:52

This movie has been just the biggest pain in the ass to get made. And somehow, some way, the movie gods looked down on us and made that happen through a number of illegal transactions, not the least of which being our test footage leaking onto the internet accidentally about 2 years ago. And that's what gave us the green light. So I'm thrilled to talk about Deadpool.

Speaker 1

01:15

Because I never thought Deadpool would exist. It's been an 11-year thing, and it's the worst relationship I've ever been in. But we're happily married now, and we're expecting.

Speaker 2

01:25

FEMALE SPEAKER 1. Congratulations. CHRISTIAN SEALS-MILLER

Speaker 1

01:27

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. FEMALE SPEAKER 1.

Speaker 2

01:29

Would it be fair to say the internet helped make this movie happen?

Speaker 1

01:31

CHRISTIAN SEALS-MILLER No, it would be absolute fact to say that the internet. The internet is why I'm sitting here talking to you, quite literally. It was the fans overwhelmed 20th Century Fox Studios with hate mail.

Speaker 1

01:46

I'm sure other illegal substances filled in all sorts of containers. They were vicious. And they so overwhelmed Fox with feedback, positive feedback about a Deadpool movie that, yeah, here we are. With relatively short order, they were basically said, go make your movie and leave us alone.

Speaker 1

02:04

Because we were sending emails. We sent emails to the heads of the studio that you would never send to the head of a major film studio. They were just borderline illegal. So yeah, I think they were just happy to say, here's the green light, now please leave us alone.

Speaker 1

02:20

And they left us alone, so we got to make the movie that we'd always dreamt of. So.

Speaker 2

02:24

Yeah, how relieved were you when they said, yeah, I'd make an R-rated movie? Because you guys embraced that R-rating. Yeah,

Speaker 1

02:30

We hugged it like a cuddly koala.

Speaker 2

02:33

Hug is not the word

Speaker 1

02:34

I use. Yeah. Yes, we dry humped a cuddly koala into an R rating, which is weirdly legal.

Speaker 1

02:42

We had a blast. No, the only way to make Deadpool is to make it without any kind of reservation. And having a PG-13 just wouldn't really allow us to have the creative freedom we needed to sort of really bring to life in the most authentic way this Marvel character. And he lives within the X-Men universe.

Speaker 1

03:00

So technically, he's kind of orbiting the same areas as Wolverine and all these other guys. So they're all sort of touched upon in the movie. And we see a couple of other X-Men. And I just think, personally, on a personal level, it's just funny to me to see me yelling at another X-Man that he's a wheezing bag of dick tips.

Speaker 1

03:20

And the fact that, like, they let me get away with that was refreshing, I'll say.

Speaker 2

03:26

Yeah. My question is, how would you convince someone's grandmother to go see this movie? Would that be the exact phrasing you'd use?

Speaker 3

03:33

CHRISTIAN BORLETTA, JR.:

Speaker 1

03:33

Wheezing bag of dick tips is the start, for sure. No, I think what's funny is that a lot of, I've seen some older women at some of the screenings, and they loved it. But then again, they sort of go in knowing what they're getting.

Speaker 1

03:48

But in terms of, I think you just have to lift grandma up and physically take her to the theater. And yeah, just tell her we're going to go see on Golden Pond, part 2, or Driving Miss Daisy, or something like that. And yeah, hope it doesn't kill her.

Speaker 2

04:04

Let's hope. Yeah. What's been the most surreal experience, either filming the movie or afterwards?

Speaker 1

04:11

Oh, the most surreal experience by far was the day I walked into Film Illusions. There's a gentleman named Russ Schenkel who's the guy in Hollywood that makes all the really cool, you know, superhero costumes. You know, he's the, he's, he's the, you go into a shop and you see there, oh, there's Batman and oh, there's, you know, Spider-Man and there's, you know.

Speaker 1

04:30

But he, he had spent months and months trying to get the Deadpool suit, right? We are sort of edict at the beginning was, this has to look, this has to be the most faithful comic book to screen costume adaptation that's ever been attempted. And he met that challenge tenfold. That was the most surreal moment, where I saw this suit for the first time, and I'm not exaggerating or trying to be funny, I wept, I like cried, because it was this 11 year journey, And I thought, wow, we're off to the races here.

Speaker 1

05:03

I mean, we really are onto something. If we're starting the movie off on this foot, on this footing, this is going to be really special. So that was pretty surreal.

Speaker 2

05:10

Well, speaking of the suit, it's interesting to have a superhero who we kind of don't always actually want to see his face.

Speaker 1

05:17

Yeah, no. It's, yeah.

Speaker 2

05:18

For aesthetic reasons. So how did you sort of approach that performance? It looks like the eyes are animated a little bit, which was awesome.

Speaker 2

05:25

But you also have to combine that with your body language, and then the raw physicality of.

Speaker 1

05:30

Yeah. Well, we sort of, in the screenwriting process, we started developing the script 6 years ago, myself, Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick. And Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote Zombieland. And they're just like really fun, smart, engaging, really funny writers.

Speaker 1

05:43

And we all sat around. We sort of felt like you needed it for an origin story on Deadpool, you needed a third, a third, a third. So, a third looks like me and then a third looks like the scarred version of Wade who we affectionately say looks like Shrek took a shit on his shoulders. And then you have the, the masked version of, of, of Deadpool and that is sort of the true embodiment of the character and the spirit.

Speaker 1

06:04

So, it was always a challenge. I mean, the mask, pushing emotions through the mask is interesting. Like, II2 days before shooting, I produced the movie so I was, I got luxuries that I would never have as an actor. I actually got to assemble a small camera crew and say, I need to just go into a room.

Speaker 1

06:18

I need you to film me acting like a moron for about 2 days so I could just see how the suit behaves, and how the suit moves, and how much expression I could have through the suit. So I learned a ton. I got to do a lot of R&D with the suit. And we were shocked.

Speaker 1

06:32

You could actually really kind of come through that. There was a little bit of facial animation in the eyes, which really helped us. But by and large, we loved the scenes where you were not even animating the face. It just sort of works.

Speaker 2

06:43

Yeah, it was great to see the physical, I'll say comedy parts, and then action. And JORDAN KLEPPER

Speaker 1

06:47

Yeah, you have to be really big. You have to sort of take a tip from clown school a little bit when you're in that thing. So all my reactions are sort of huge.

Speaker 2

06:57

DANA HAN-KLEIN When were you first introduced to the character of Deadpool?

Speaker 1

07:00

JORDAN KLEPPER I was on a set. I was on the movie Blade Trinity, which I hope most of you have not seen. But no, there's some fun parts of that movie.

Speaker 1

07:12

But it's, it was a movie where I got to have a lot of fun. I got to do the movie with my friends. It was certainly, the movie was fraught with a lot of, a number of different frustrations that sometimes big movies can have. But, but I played a character in that movie that I guess resembles Wade Wilson in Deadpool.

Speaker 1

07:30

And a rival executive at another studio said, I saw a little piece of Blade, and you're Wade Wilson. You're Deadpool. I didn't know at the time. This is in 2004.

Speaker 1

07:37

I didn't know who Deadpool was. And he said, trust me, if they ever make a movie about Deadpool, you're the only guy that can play Deadpool. So he sent me over all these comics. And I'm not a big comic book guy, but I really gravitated toward Deadpool.

Speaker 1

07:49

I fell in love with Deadpool. The first issue I opened up, I'm not making this up, I was on the panel. In the comic, it said, Deadpool was saying, somebody asked him what he looks like. He says, I look like a cross between Ryan Reynolds and a Sharpay.

Speaker 4

08:03

And I was like, Jesus, this is fucking destiny. What the hell? Who's fucking with me?

Speaker 1

08:09

It's like, you know, Kirk Cameron gonna jump out of the corner with his little candid camera and I'm gonna offend him with my swears? So, I just kept reading them all and I was just so in love, I fell so in love with this character. He was like meta, he breaks the fourth wall, addresses the audience, he knows he's in a comic book.

Speaker 1

08:26

I mean, in the film, Deadpool, Deadpool makes fun of Ryan Reynolds And I love that. I love that he gets to do that. It's a kind of a groundbreaking, genre-bending property. And the fact that a studio let us make it, not just let us make it, but let us make it as a rated R movie was just, I mean, crazy.

Speaker 1

08:45

I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2

08:48

I think Deadpool, the comic character, is definitely very self-aware. And you guys very much embraced that.

Speaker 1

08:53

Yeah, we did.

Speaker 2

08:54

Pop culture

Speaker 1

08:55

and other cinematic history.

Speaker 2

08:57

Yeah, there's a ton

Speaker 1

08:57

of pop culture references in it. And The movie has over 100 Easter eggs, too. I mean, there's just little things like that.

Speaker 1

09:03

Some things that you may not see that I don't know if we ever get the opportunity to shoot another Deadpool movie or another 10 if I have my way. I'll use in those. So I don't want to really give them away. But there's so many great little Easter eggs.

Speaker 1

09:15

It was so much fun to plant all these things in the movie.

Speaker 2

09:17

Of what you can tell us, what was 1 of your favorite things to film for the movie?

Speaker 1

09:21

Oh God, of what? Probably my favorite scene. There's a scene where Deadpool attacks another X-Men and I just like that in this moment we're really embodying the moral flexibility of the character.

Speaker 1

09:31

I mean, that's 1 of the things that I personally love about Deadpool so much is that he ostensibly looks like a superhero, but he's morally flexible in every way. And that, to me, is just, you get a lot of superheroes that are tough and that talk like this and the egg and all that. But Deadpool, he genuinely is a guy that'll just sort of help out whoever has the fattest wad of cash. And I love that about him.

Speaker 1

09:52

And so there's a scene where he just, his ego gets bruised and he just attacks this X-Men named Colossus. And the scene, he ends up breaking every bone in his body, attacking Colossus. And I just love that scene because he just never shuts up. The whole time he just keeps this running editorial going of everything that's happening.

Speaker 1

10:10

And it's, that to me was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2

10:12

Every bone. Yes. Graphically too.

Speaker 2

10:17

What's 1 of the things that you did in the preparation process that you weren't sort of expecting to have a large effect on playing the part?

Speaker 1

10:25

The prep for me was easy. I was basically being eased out of my mother's womb, And then being fed enough to grow into adulthood, and then beginning filming. I mean, to me, it was just a matter of that marriage between myself, Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick, and just finding these 2 writers that so understood everything that we were trying to do.

Speaker 1

10:47

And those guys have been such a privilege to not only to know, but to work with. Also, the thing I love about Deadpool is the marketing campaign is an extension of the film, which is not normal. Most times, when you have a character that breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience directly, the possibilities for a film are obviously limitless, but so is the marketing. So for me, the marketing's been a lot of fun.

Speaker 1

11:06

We've been shooting, I think we've shot over 40 viral videos, maybe only 12 or 15 we've released that we have so many. I mean, it's just an embarrassment of riches, but half the time it was just me and my iPhone just, you know, shooting myself at the trailer or wherever while we were shooting. That part's been amazing.

Speaker 2

11:25

Yeah, I think you guys have done a great job of building the excitement amongst the fans.

Speaker 1

11:28

Yeah, well not that many people knew about Deadpool a year ago, and I feel like they've done a great job of really introducing him to the uninitiated as well. So.

Speaker 2

11:35

What's been 1 of the greatest sort of fan experiences? Because I think there's a very rabid audience

Speaker 3

11:38

who's excited.

Speaker 2

11:38

Oh, Comic-Con, man.

Speaker 1

11:38

Comic-Con? Comic-Con was crazy. I, I was nervous. Because the last time I was at Comic-Con was, was I was there for Green Lantern.

Speaker 1

11:46

And that was tough. So you sort of feel like, I'm so close to Deadpool, and I'm so intimate with it, that I have 0 objectivity. I mean, absolutely 0. So walking into Comic-Con, everybody's laughing and smiling.

Speaker 1

12:02

And Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and Tim Miller, the director, and everybody, they're all just laughing and backslapping. And I just am sheet white and terrified, because I have no idea. I'm too close to it. So then when our presentation played, We showed them about 3 or 4 minutes of the movie.

Speaker 1

12:18

And it finished. And they were all on their feet. And then they started chanting, 1 more time, 1 more time. And on the side stage, I looked over there and I could see the studio head who had waited 10 years to green light the movie, just looking at me with this smile on her face, like, well, there you fucking go.

Speaker 1

12:38

And Hugh Jackman was actually standing next to her, because they were doing a Wolverine presentation next. And he actually told them to say, play it 1 more time, or they're going to fucking riot. So they played it 1 more time, our presentation. And that, to me, was like, I was so surreal.

Speaker 1

12:54

It was such a magical moment. I mean, just for everybody, because we didn't make the movie on, I mean, I always joke, Like, our budget for Deadpool was what most superhero movies spend on just cocaine. So for us, we didn't have $200 million to sort of make all our dreams come true. We had every single cent counted.

Speaker 1

13:14

And Tim Miller, our director, he's a visual effects guru. He owns a visual effects company. So he made every dollar magically turn into 10. I don't know how he did that.

Speaker 1

13:24

I'm so grateful to him for us being able to realize our vision for the movie and really kind of put everything that was on the page on the screen at a cost that you can't tell we compromised. I mean, it still feels like you're watching 1 of these movies with these massive budgets and, and yeah, but just way less recreational drugs, so.

Speaker 2

13:42

So. Would, would cocaine fall under craft services, do you think? I

Speaker 1

13:45

don't know. You know, it's funny, but obviously that never happens anymore. But well, maybe it does.

Speaker 1

13:51

But back in the 80s, you'd always look at, they'd always talk about the line costs on a movie and stuff. And there'd always be this miscellaneous line that was like $80, 000. And they'd just be like, oh, no, that was just individually wrapped Norwegian toffee. And you're like, right, right.

Speaker 2

14:09

DANA HAN-KLEIN, MD, PhD

Speaker 3

14:09

Whatever you

Speaker 2

14:09

want to call it. We're going to take audience questions in a moment, if anyone wants to line up.

Speaker 1

14:14

DANA HAN-KLEIN, MD, PhD Thank God. No, I'm kidding. You've been doing great.

Speaker 1

14:17

You've been doing so great. You've been doing amazing. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1

14:21

Thank you very much.

Speaker 2

14:22

I appreciate it.

Speaker 4

14:23

Thanks, everyone.

Speaker 2

14:24

It's my 2 weeks notice, and I'm out.

Speaker 1

14:26

And a big hand for Dana. Please, come on. She's amazing.

Speaker 5

14:29

You've been doing great. Thank you.

Speaker 4

14:30

Right? Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 2

14:35

I think a lot of people on the internet were curious, were there any on-set shenanigans? And if so, can you

Speaker 1

14:40

tell us about any of them? Not a ton. Like, surprisingly for a movie like this, There weren't a ton of on-set shenanigans.

Speaker 1

14:46

A lot of it was just alternate jokes. I mean, we just had so much fun with messing around. I mean, it was just a matter of time that sort of pulled us away from each scene. But we would do 15 alt jokes for every 1 you see in the movie.

Speaker 1

14:58

So the home entertainment package or whatever the hell they eat. I'm so old, I'm like, the LaserDisc package for this film is going to be exceptional. No, but the digital package that comes after it, they're going to have everything. I mean, all the gag reel is just stupid, stupid

Speaker 2

15:12

fun. A nine-hour cut.

Speaker 1

15:13

Yeah, you could do a nine-hour. There's so many little extras. That stuff's going to be fun, I

Speaker 2

15:18

think. FEMALE SPEAKER 1 And do you have a favorite furniture line?

Speaker 1

15:22

Any preferences? CHRISTIAN SEBERINO Yeah.

Speaker 2

15:24

Any thoughts on? It could be Ikea. This is you in real life.

Speaker 5

15:28

CHRISTIAN SEBERINO The

Speaker 1

15:28

Urwash is Deadpool's personal favorite. The Bjorsch, that thing's just absolute bullshit. And I think we all know it.

Speaker 2

15:35

Yeah. We'll let Ikea know.

Speaker 1

15:37

Yeah. For anyone who hasn't seen the movie here, they're just going, what the fuck is he talking about? Deadpool in the movie forces his blind, elderly roommate to assemble Ikea furniture all day because he's a wonderful guy.

Speaker 2

15:50

He's a stand-up citizen.

Speaker 6

15:52

Yeah. So my question is, what's a fictional character that you wish you'd played but haven't?

Speaker 1

16:00

Oh, that's a good question. Not Bella from Twilight. Fictional character that there's a, oh, so boring answer.

Speaker 1

16:12

There's a great prison baseball player named Blackie Schwamm from, I think, the 20s or the 30s. And he was known as the greatest prison baseball player ever. He was a pitcher, but he was totally debilitated by alcoholism. And I've always been sort of totally fascinated by his story.

Speaker 1

16:25

And so I would love to play Blackie Schwamm in a movie that nobody will ever make.

Speaker 3

16:31

So. Yeah. Well, they

Speaker 2

16:33

said that about Deadpool, and then they

Speaker 4

16:34

made that. That's true. That's the best

Speaker 1

16:36

you'd ever know, right? Writing your letters. I know how passionate you all are about Blackie Schwab.

Speaker 2

16:42

It begins now. It begins now. Actually, what sort of other acting experiences do you bring?

Speaker 2

16:49

There was a moment that I was sort of reliving your performance in Buried.

Speaker 3

16:54

Where I

Speaker 2

16:54

was like, he's just really good at freaking out in small spaces. Were there any moments where you were like, oh no, I have to

Speaker 3

17:01

deal with this. I am

Speaker 1

17:01

good at freaking out in small spaces. I'm pretty like, I'm the first guy to say, like a movie I did or a performance I did sucked. But like, that's 1 gift I've always had is freaking out in small spaces.

Speaker 1

17:10

And it's probably because I'm the youngest of 4 boys. So I was often crammed into small spaces, both for survival and for torture. But yeah, in the movie, in Deadpool, I'm choking to death and I'm being tortured. And I am fine with it.

Speaker 1

17:25

But the problem is it blows all the blood vessels in my face. So they have to end up putting a lot of makeup on to cover up my horribly blood vessel-blown face.

Speaker 2

17:36

And then put your horrible face on

Speaker 3

17:38

in makeup later. Yes, and

Speaker 2

17:38

then putting the horrible

Speaker 1

17:40

scar makeup on over top of that. Awesome. Hi.

Speaker 1

17:44

Hi.

Speaker 7

17:45

What is your favorite movie other than Deadpool? So what is the movie that you're most proud of?

Speaker 1

17:49

That I am most proud of?

Speaker 7

17:50

Yes.

Speaker 1

17:51

Oh, probably Buried. I mean, it was just really difficult to do. And everyone said it was impossible.

Speaker 1

17:55

And I loved that experience. We shot the whole thing in Barcelona. The whole movie takes place in a coffin, for those of you who don't know. And it's just a real Hitchcock kind of thrill ride.

Speaker 1

18:05

So I love that movie. I still don't know why we shot it in Barcelona. We couldn't just do it in my living room. Whatever.

Speaker 1

18:10

I don't make the rules. So yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 1

18:13

You're welcome. Thank you. Hello.

Speaker 8

18:16

Hello. So about the last time you played Deadpool, was there an agreement that if you played that less entertaining version, that you would get to do a full Deadpool movie?

Speaker 1

18:26

Actually, yes. There fucking was. No, true.

Speaker 1

18:31

I remember I got the script, and it was during the Hollywood writer's strike, so there was no writers. So it basically said Deadpool shows up, talks really fast, annoys everyone around him. So for the whole first half of that movie, I play Wade Wilson, and I'm just yada, yada, yada the whole time. And I just had to make up all my dialogue, because there was no 1 to write it.

Speaker 1

18:47

And I had fun. I love doing that stuff. So, but the second half, Deadpool, they sew his fucking mouth shut. Right.

Speaker 1

18:52

He doesn't talk at all. Yeah. Let lasers come out of his eyes and he has like weird knives that fly out of his hands. And I remember saying, that's really gonna anger some people.

Speaker 1

19:01

That's not Deadpool. And they basically said, well, you can play him, or we can hire someone else to play him. Pick your guy. So for me, I was a little bit blackmailed.

Speaker 1

19:16

I just said, all right, let's do it, I guess. And let's see what happens. And then, you know, it's funny. I probably shouldn't be saying this, which is why it's awesome.

Speaker 1

19:27

After the movie was just about to come out, Wolverine was just about to come out, we got a call from 1 of the executives of the studio. He said, where are you? And I said, I'm up in Canada. He's like, we need you to fly here right now.

Speaker 1

19:36

I was like, what's wrong? What's going on? He's like, we've tested the movie, and people are very upset about the Deadpool, about everything we did to the Deadpool. And I was

Speaker 4

19:42

like, you fucking

Speaker 1

19:43

did it! I told you! And so we shot this little tag that happens at the very end after the credits where Deadpool's severed head is on the ground.

Speaker 1

19:51

And I open my eyes, and my mouth is now open. And I go, shh. And it was just so dumb. But we did it anyway, I guess, to sort of make people think that there might be another Deadpool after that.

Speaker 1

19:59

Then it just rotted and died on the shelves of Fox forever. They never wanted to make a Deadpool movie after that. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1

20:07

But we made the right 1 now. So there you go. Yeah. Looks great.

Speaker 1

20:09

I can't wait to see it. Cool. Thank you. Hey there.

Speaker 9

20:13

Hi. So in the movie, you and the taxi driver have a great relationship.

Speaker 3

20:16

The

Speaker 9

20:16

question is, why does he keep driving you around, and did he get compensated for the movie?

Speaker 1

20:21

Yes, we paid all our actors. It was low budget, but they were definitely paid. And no, in the movie, Dopinder does not, he is not compensated, unfortunately.

Speaker 1

20:30

Deadpool only pays him in a crisp high 5. And at 1 point, he gives him a crisp 10. It was really- And some life advice. But no, Dopinder is that, that name comes from my friend in high school, no sorry, elementary school.

Speaker 1

20:42

I went to school with this guy named Dopinder and it's actually, we're paying tribute to him. He, he, he was killed, he was struck by lightning which is so just utterly crazy. Don't laugh. They're all laughing about it now.

Speaker 1

20:54

It's fine. No. And so that's Dopinder. Dopinder is a tribute to this guy, Dopinder, that I knew in school.

Speaker 1

21:01

He was a really cool guy. Yeah. There you go. There's more information than you ever wanted.

Speaker 1

21:07

Hey, Ryan. Who have been some of your favorite actors or actresses you've worked with in your career? Helen Mirren, amazing. Sandra Bullock is classy and fantastic as a human being can get.

Speaker 1

21:21

God, I'm thinking of other actresses that I've worked with that I loved. I don't, you know, some of you might not necessarily know, Traylor Howard, who I did my TV show with 155 years ago, she was the girl on the show on 2 guys, a girl in a pizza place. She was an awesome, awesome person. But I've been lucky.

Speaker 1

21:36

Mary Louise Parker is 1 that I think is really talented and super, super smart and cool. So yeah, I've been pretty lucky in that department. I've had a lot of great co-stars. Yeah.

Speaker 1

21:47

Yeah. Yeah. Denzel Washington is a wonderful actress as well. So.

Speaker 1

21:51

Yeah.

Speaker 7

21:52

In case you've ever heard of him.

Speaker 6

21:53

Yeah. Hi. Thank you so much for your time. I think back on your career, and you've done such a variety of different genres of movies, from Sandra Bullock in the proposal to animated movies in these adaptations now.

Speaker 6

22:07

What would you say have been the challenges of doing these different genres, and then also the favorite parts to, say, doing voice animation versus doing something more physical?

Speaker 1

22:18

OK, well, my career is largely driven by desperation. So there's a different genre thing. It's like, yeah, you find a script that you like, and you beg someone to let you make it.

Speaker 1

22:28

The voiceover acting, I love voiceover acting. I love it because there's 0 ceiling, and you can do and say anything. In a weird way, Deadpool, there's a lot of voiceover acting in the movie, too. So doing animated films has been fun.

Speaker 1

22:40

Working on Croods, and now Croods 2, has been incredible and turbo. I just, I don't know, I love it. And it's nice that I have something I can show my one-year-old daughter. For God's sake, everything else is just vile.

Speaker 1

22:52

So yeah. Yeah, that's, yeah. AUDIENCE MEMBER 3.

Speaker 6

22:54

Thank you. JORDAN METZLER-SHIFFMANN, JR.:

Speaker 1

22:55

You're welcome. Thank you.

Speaker 10

22:56

So the marketing for this movie has been insane. I wanted to know, did you have a hand in that? Did you say from the very beginning we should make Nicholas Sparks billboards to promote this?

Speaker 3

23:06

Or did

Speaker 10

23:06

that come in towards the end?

Speaker 1

23:08

The Nicholas Sparks billboards were not. I actually was like the last guy on board with that, because they were too good. I was like, people are really gonna think that this is, say, like the sequel to the Notebook, you know?

Speaker 1

23:22

So, I was a little worried about that 1. And that was such a hit. And I think there's a couple of our marketing guys in here right now or somewhere that could raise their hands. But they're chicken shits, so they won't do that.

Speaker 1

23:34

They are geniuses. But it has been a, like I said, it's been an extension of the film, which is so unusual. So we've all been, we've all had our hand in every little piece of it. It's been so much of a harder job than the filming, actually, because it's just been full time, round the clock.

Speaker 1

23:51

I've never had a social media calendar that I have to adhere to, which has been just crazy. Just trying to get stuff out, content. We shot so many videos, so many viral videos. Some I write, some Fox writes, some Rhett and Paul write.

Speaker 1

24:04

So it's just been a, everybody's been all hands on deck. But it's been so much fun. I mean, everybody just loves it. I think a lot of the feedback we've been getting, people are sad that the movie's coming out because the viral videos are gonna stop.

Speaker 1

24:15

But that's just simply not true. We have many more. Yeah.

Speaker 2

24:19

I think we have time for 1 more question.

Speaker 7

24:21

Oh, great. Hi, Ryan. This is unrelated to the movie.

Speaker 7

24:24

I promised to see it, but I just wanted to ask you about being a dad and your new baby. Can you just talk to us a little bit about that?

Speaker 1

24:30

Yeah, I just found out I had a child.

Speaker 2

24:34

She's like a year old,

Speaker 4

24:35

too, walking and talking. Has no idea who

Speaker 1

24:38

I am. No, I love it. It's the best, honestly.

Speaker 1

24:40

It's been incredible. Thankfully, I have a wife that we both sort of feel like we don't want to work at the same time. So we have the luxury to be able to do that. Because oftentimes our jobs are in Thailand, or our jobs are in Russia.

Speaker 1

24:53

So we all kind of travel together and stay together. And it's been amazing. My daughter wept, though, when I would come in with the scar makeup on from Deadpool. That was really, really frightening.

Speaker 1

25:03

Well, sometimes I just put it on just for fun. So she hated that. But no, it's the best. Honestly, it's been the best thing.

Speaker 1

25:11

Every cliche is so stupidly true. Giving birth is 1 of the greatest privileges. It's so common, but it's like 1 of the most profound things that happens. So many people do it.

Speaker 1

25:23

But I'm always careful when I talk about it because every, like I know so many celebrities that talk about when they have a child, like they're the only fucking human being alive that's ever squeezed a kid out of them. So I'm like, I'm a little, I'm always a little bit wary of that. I have 1 friend that always like, my daughter is quoting Chekhov and she's 2. And I was like, your daughter's an asshole.

Speaker 1

25:43

So.

Speaker 2

25:46

Thank you.

Speaker 1

25:47

Thanks for

Speaker 3

25:48

coming. Yeah.

Speaker 1

25:49

Thank you. Let's not end on that.

Speaker 2

25:51

God. Okay. You don't wanna call your goddard asshole, isn't it?

Speaker 4

25:55

All right.

Speaker 2

25:55

We'll go on a

Speaker 4

25:55

different note. This is like 1 of

Speaker 1

25:56

those things. You do interviews and you're in my position and You wake up in the middle of the night at a perfect right angle. And you're like, why am I sitting up sweating?

Speaker 1

26:04

And you're like, oh, that fucking question.

Speaker 4

26:06

I answered that question. I said that thing. Yeah.

Speaker 2

26:08

So it's not too late.

Speaker 3

26:09

DANA HAN-KLEIN, MD, PhD It's just the internet. You know? We're only.

Speaker 1

26:10

DAN HARMON, MD, PhD I know. It's just the internet.

Speaker 3

26:12

It's fine. We're all

Speaker 1

26:12

going to be fine.

Speaker 3

26:13

DANA HAN-KLEIN, MD, PhD No, we

Speaker 2

26:14

use it. All right. Well, where do you think the character Deadpool could do the most good in the world we currently live in?

Speaker 1

26:19

Oh, where he could do the, oh my god, well, certainly the presidential election would be someplace that I would implement his unique skill set. Yeah, no, he can't. We did run a brief Deadpool for El Presidente campaign in the middle of our last week, I think.

Speaker 1

26:35

But we pulled it the same day because he's just too immature for that. So I think he could do some do some good there. I'd love to see him as a pundit because he can't really focus. So it would be fun to just see the tangents, you know.

Speaker 1

26:46

I would love to see Bill O'Reilly handle him. Yeah.

Speaker 2

26:50

Yeah, the pundit with a mouth. Right, exactly. It's got a good ring

Speaker 4

26:52

to it.

Speaker 2

26:54

Yeah. That pool

Speaker 3

26:54

too, the

Speaker 1

26:55

pundit with a mouth.

Speaker 3

26:55

Yeah, exactly. All right.

Speaker 2

26:55

Well, thank you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 3

26:57

Thank you so much.

Speaker 1

26:57

Thank you guys for having me.

Speaker 2

26:58

Thank you guys.

Speaker 5

26:59

This was so fun. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 5

27:00

Thank you.