Ryan Reynolds is a fantastic actor. So fantastic in fact, that he takes the full-on Daniel Day Lewis approach to method acting to prepare for his roles.
Which is why he didn't pick up his two daughters from school when he found out he'd been cast as the title role in the Detective Pikachu movie.
"I was on my way to pick up my daughters from school when I heard that I got the role," Ryan explains. "I didn't show up at school because Detective Pikachu, he doesn't know who those two little girls are. Who are they?"
This is where Blake Lively steps in.
"They're our daughters," replies Blake. "He just... he just left them."
"He doesn't have a wife, no," Ryan adds. "He's a little yellow guy."
The worst part, as Reynolds explains to Jimmy Fallon in the clip above, was that some people on his recent press tour around Asia believed that video was true.
"A lot of people thought that was real," Reynolds says. "That I was being quite serious."
Uh-oh.
