Before Deadpool, the star made... pretty much every kind of movie ever Before Ryan Reynolds was a four-quadrant tentpole leading man, the media mogul behind Maximum Effort, the owner of the Wrexham soccer club, and a viral stuntman shill for Mint Mobile (which, to be fair, he owns a 25% stake in), the 49-year-old actor was… well, just an actor. But he hustled as hard. No one over the last 30 years has wanted to be a movie star as bad as Ryan Reynolds. He parlayed a sitcom stint in Two Guys and Girl and a Pizza Place into a comedy career with Van Wilder. A surprising role as Wesley Snipes’ co-star in Blade: Trinity was supposed to make him an action guy. When that didn’t work out, he tried horror (The Amityville Horror), R-rated thriller (Smoking’ Aces), indie (The Nines), and rom-com (Definitely, Maybe). Everyone in Hollywood knew Reynolds had that special something, but no writer, director, or producer could quite crack it. Which might explain why Reynolds went back to the superhero well twice after Blade: Trinity, appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Green Lantern. Those were both disasters too. We all know how this story ends: Passionate about resurrecting the Deadpool char
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Before Deadpool, the star made... pretty much every kind of movie ever Before Ryan Reynolds was a four-quadrant tentpole leading man, the media mogul behind Maximum Effort, the owner of the Wrexham soccer club, and a viral stuntman shill…
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