Ryan Reynolds has recently expressed his discomfort with people pleaser on movie sets.
The Deadpool & Wolverine star revealed that he welcomed “dissent and feedback” when people agreed with his ideas due to leadership qualities.
Ryan discussed his leadership on movie set while speaking with the Wall Street Journal Leadership chair, Maryam Banikarim, at The Wall Street Journal CMO Summit.
“I’m screwed if people start agreeing with me, cause I’m the boss or something. That makes him ill,” explained the Free Guy actor.
Ryan opened up that his leadership quality “created wonderful conversation,” where he could get suggestions for improvement with his crew.
The Red Notice actor’s unique thought on leadership reflects his success as a producer and businessman with his company, Maximum Effort.
Elsewhere in the interview, Ryan took a firmer leadership on the set of 2011 movie, Green Lantern.
“Do you understand the work I’ve had to do to get to the place where I can just pass by that screen and not go, ‘Well, we could have…?’” continued the Adam Project actor.
However, Ryan shared that he had a more passive attitude in the industry about 15 years ago.
His mentality was, according to the Proposal actor was “Yes, sir; no, sir; how high can I jump, sir?’ despite having ‘strong opinions’ that he often kept to himself with workplace politics in mind”.
Interestingly, Ryan learned that the accountability he faced as a leading man led him to take more charge on movie sets.
“They don’t say ‘This producer’s movie flopped or ‘This director’ – that’s me,” remarked the actor.
Therefore, Ryan noted at the time that if he’s “going to be on that headline, I’d like to be the architect of my own demise or success”.
