Ryan Reynolds Says He Gave Up His Salary to Star in the “Deadpool” Franchise

On the eve of the launch of “Deadpool & Wolverine” which hits theaters on July 25, Ryan Reynolds 47, recalled some of the challenges of the beginning of the franchise. For the first film, released in 2016, to get off the ground, the actor said he gave up his own salary and was even responsible for paying the scriptwriters on set.

The statements were made during an interview with The New York Times, released last Monday (15). According to the Canadian star, Fox studios resisted producing the film.

“When Deadpool finally got the green light, part of me thought it was going to be a big deal. I even stopped getting paid to make the movie just to get it on the big screen: They wouldn’t let my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took what little paycheck I had left and paid them to come on set with me so we could form a writers’ room,” Reynolds said.

He added that this “was a lesson in some ways.” The actor also opined that “one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that film had no time and no money.”

“We invest in the character rather than the spectacle, which makes it harder in a film adapting a comic book. [de super-heróis]. I got caught up in all the details and that hadn’t happened in a long time. I remember wanting to feel that again – and not just in ‘Deadpool’ but in everything else,” he said.

Ryan Reynolds further stated: “Necessity is the mother of invention. The more constraints you put on a creative process, the more you think outside the box.”

The first two films in the franchise were produced by Fox Studios, before the group was acquired by Disney in 2017.

The film “Deadpool & Wolverine” picks up years after the events of “Deadpool 2,” released in 2018. The character Wade Wilson, Deadpool, is now working as a used car salesman and is no longer dating his longtime lover, Vanessa.

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