Hugh Jackman & Ryan Reynolds Talk Marvel Leaks, Original 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Idea & Their Bromance on 'Hot Ones'
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are taking on the spicy wings of death!
The Deadpool & Wolverine co-stars appeared on Hot Ones and took on burning questions from host Sean Evans.
During their funny appearance, the two discussed superhero costumes, Marvel leaks, the original opening idea for Deadpool & Wolverine, jobs before acting, the depths of their bromance and more.
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Hugh on Wolverine’s potential to be in a double-act comedy:
“Literally the moment I saw Deadpool, that’s when everything came flashing to me. That’s when I saw 48 Hours, Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy…I saw The Odd Couple…I was like these two characters have to be together and I literally announced my retirement three days before…it took us six years to get there but we got there.”
Ryan on getting fitted for superhero suits:
“…I think that the Deadpool suit and this Wolverine suit are the two best comic book movie suits ever made.”
On pre-fame jobs, Ryan as a forklift driver/Hugh as a clown for birthday parties:
Ryan: “I crushed my ankle a couple of times on those forklifts…”
Hugh: “I literally rented a clown outfit…and we had no skills, literally no skills…I broke my rule and I did an 8 year old’s party. I always knew they were going to find me out and he found me out and this kid yelled to his mom ‘mom, this clown is crap’. And I’m like ‘shut up, kid’…”
Ryan reveals original opening for Deadpool & Wolverine:
“I’m shocked that we managed to get through this without some of our biggest surprises, even hypothesized online…the original idea with this movie was to shoot a fake movie called Alpha Cop, that was intentionally bad…It was about two guys that were sharing one brain and together they make the perfect cop…and the poster says Alpha Cop: two cops, one brain, all balls. And it was meant to be kind of like horrible. Like 10 people in America would go to see this movie on opening weekend and five minutes into the movie the Marvel logo would flip up and it would actually be Deadpool & Wolverine…”
Hugh on X-Men Origins: Wolverine leak:
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine…it was leaked maybe a week before we came out, and I think I just remember someone saying and I think it’s up to 10 million people had seen it before it came out. That’s a bad leak.”
Ryan, on importance of character vs. spectacles in films to resonate with the audience:
RR: “Some films that I’ve been on, they have a lot of money and you kind of keep throwing more money at a problem, when your real problem is that you’re focused on spectacle over character…and when you focus on spectacles as much as character, the audiences I think are a little unnerved to spectacle. I feel like CGI effects and those kinds of things aren’t what actually sustains an audience after a movie comes out but they in fact relate to and remember character moments…”
Hugh on singing the National Anthem at Australia vs. New Zealand rugby match:
“I was so scared, and I remember being in the dressing room…and I just was singing the National Anthem over and over again…and there’s an old guy sitting in the corner whose job it is to clean up and he goes…’oh you a bit nervous?’. I said yeah, well it’s only 90,000 people out there. He goes ‘forget that, there’s like only a billion people watching on TV’…That, I never been more scared in my life, actually it helped me because hosting the Oscars, opening weekend, nothing has been more scary than that.”
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