Ryan Reynolds has admitted he learnt an important lesson while making Green Lantern.
On Tuesday, November 18, the 49-year-old Canadian-American actor and film producer attended The Wall Street Journal’s CMO Council Summit, where he reflected on his 2011 superhero movie based on the character from DC Comics.
When the moderator Maryam Banikarim asked Reynolds to find a past failure in his career that helped him learn a lesson.
He replied, “Creatively speaking, it’s hard to say. Someone might say Green Lantern. You laugh, but my son, it’s his favorite movie and he watches it every f**** day.”
The Deadpool & Wolverine star went on to ask the audience, “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 [done something to make it better]?’”
For those unaware, Reynolds first met his now wife Blake Lively on the set of Green Lantern, which turned out to be a critical and commercial failure.
The Just Friends hero waited five years for his comic book stardom that came with the Deadpool series in 2016, adapted from the Marvel Comics character.
Remembering his creative approach earlier in his career, he quipped, “But you know, that was a time in my life when I was ‘Yes, sir, no, sir. How high can I jump, sir?’”
“You sit there and you go, ‘I have really strong thoughts and opinions on a creative matter,’ and someone else on another movie, I remember, made a creative decision, and ‘I thought, well, that’s a nail in a coffin that I alone will lie in,’” Ryan Reynolds noted.
