Apparently, Ryan Reynolds never planned to be an actor. However, he did always have his sights set on being an entertainer. “When I turned 18, I got back into improv comedy, and that’s why I moved to Los Angeles, to see if I could join a group called The Groundlings, which is a really famous improv comedy group in Los Angeles,” said Reynolds during a visit to Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School (via Parade). “So that was my main goal for going down here. It wasn’t to work in films; it was to be on stage,” he added.
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Even though Reynolds never got to officially get into improv, his interest has surely served him well. While Deadpool has always famously been hailed as the “merc with a mouth,” Reynolds actually improvised many of the film’s R-rated jokes. And much of what Reynolds didn’t improvise, he wrote himself alongside the film’s screenwriters. Reynolds took a similar approach in 2021’s “Red Notice,” an art heist action film. “I improvised a lot of the jokes,” revealed Reynolds to Elle, “I mean, that’s kind of my job. I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to say it’s improv because I write a lot of the jokes. I write eight or nine options for each joke and I leave it to the editor and the director just to decide which ones they feel are suitable for the movie.”
