Ryan Reynolds, star and producer of "Deadpool", comes to Google to discuss the process of bringing the Merc with a Mouth to life.

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

In theaters February 12, 2016
Moderated by Dana Han-Klein

I was expecting a tiny room with 20 people.

Today, it is my pleasure to welcome Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool.

I feel like I'm rubbing shoulders with real power.

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

When I talk about it, I'm always just grateful I'm wearing an adult diaper.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm sure other illegal substances filled in all sorts of containers.

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.

We sent emails to the heads of the studio that you would never send to the head of a major film studio.

So yeah, I think they were just happy to say, here's the green light, now please leave us alone.

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

Yeah, how relieved were you when they said, yeah, I'd make an R-rated movie?

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

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.

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 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.

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

My question is, how would you convince someone's grandmother to go see this movie?

Would that be the exact phrasing you'd use?

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.

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.

What's been the most surreal experience, either filming the movie or afterwards?

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.

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.

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.

If we're starting the movie off on this foot, on this footing, this is going to be really special.

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.

So how did you sort of approach that performance?

It looks like the eyes are animated a little bit, which was awesome.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You have to sort of take a tip from clown school a little bit when you're in that thing.

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

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.

But it's, it was a movie where I got to have a lot of fun.

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.

And a rival executive at another studio said, I saw a little piece of Blade, and you're Wade Wilson.

And he said, trust me, if they ever make a movie about Deadpool, you're the only guy that can play Deadpool.

And I'm not a big comic book guy, but I really gravitated toward 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.

And I was like, Jesus, this is fucking destiny.

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.

I mean, in the film, Deadpool, Deadpool makes fun of Ryan Reynolds And I love 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.

I think Deadpool, the comic character, is definitely very self-aware.

And The movie has over 100 Easter eggs, too.

I mean, there's just little things like that.

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.

So I don't want to really give them away.

But there's so many great little Easter eggs.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

What's been 1 of the greatest sort of fan experiences?

Because I think there's a very rabid audience

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

So you sort of feel like, I'm so close to Deadpool, and I'm so intimate with it, that I have 0 objectivity.

So walking into Comic-Con, everybody's laughing and smiling.

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.

So then when our presentation played, We showed them about 3 or 4 minutes of the movie.

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.

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.

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.

And Tim Miller, our director, he's a visual effects guru.

So he made every dollar magically turn into 10.

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.

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

You know, it's funny, but obviously that never happens anymore.

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.

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

I think a lot of people on the internet were curious, were there any on-set shenanigans?

Like, surprisingly for a movie like this, There weren't a ton of on-set shenanigans.

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.

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

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

The Bjorsch, that thing's just absolute bullshit.

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.

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