Between running a gin company, launching a mobile provider, and taunting his fellow Marvel stars, you might wonder where Ryan Reynolds found the time to make half of a Netflix action movie with Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot. But that's apparently what he was doing, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down production on the generically titled Red Notice.
"I'm guessing we might have finished the movie if we didn't spend 90 percent of the time dicking around laughing," Reynolds told Jimmy Fallon over video chat. "I've known Dwayne for like 15 years so we spend most of our time together trying to make each other laugh, which is a really irresponsible thing to do with [Netflix's] money."
Apparently the secret to getting famously dedicated and hardworking man Dwayne Johnson to dissolve into giggles manly baritone guffaws is to make fun of him directly, with swears.
"He really laughs at himself, which is one of the things I love about him," Reynolds explained, breaking out a gravelly, half-assed Johnson impression. "So if you just parrot back the thing he just said, like 27% faster with a swear word... he's gone. He leaves the room and he never comes back."
Reynolds also discussed what it's like being trapped in a house with his wife Blake Lively and their three daughters ("like the third act of Alien," complete with horrifying noises about Cheerios). And in the other half of the interview (which I'll warn you now has zero details about Deadpool 3 and the MCU) he talked about the contributions his businesses are making to help people affected by the pandemic, from overwhelmed hospitals in New York and Canadian foodbanks to unemployed bartenders in London.
"We're obscenely, and I mean obscenely, privileged to be able to do that," he said. "And my companies... are doing well despite all this, and if you're a company that's staying afloat and doing well, especially if you're doing well, it's incumbent on you to give back."
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