Post by cremetangerine82 on Jul 22, 2024 11:24:59 GMT -4
Ryan Reynolds says "I let go of getting paid" on Deadpool and "took the little salary I had left" to pay for the screenwriters to be on set.
It's great to hear an actor acknowledge how essential writers are to the production process, yet get underpaid and undervalued.
“No part of me was thinking when Deadpool was finally greenlit that this would be a success,” Reynolds said. “I even let go of getting paid to do the movie just to put it back on the screen: They wouldn’t allow my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room.”
“It was a lesson in a couple of senses,” Reynolds continued. “I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money. It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie. I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it and I hadn’t felt like that in a long, long time. I remembered wanting to feel that more — not just on Deadpool, but on anything.”
“It was a lesson in a couple of senses,” Reynolds continued. “I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money. It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie. I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it and I hadn’t felt like that in a long, long time. I remembered wanting to feel that more — not just on Deadpool, but on anything.”
It's great to hear an actor acknowledge how essential writers are to the production process, yet get underpaid and undervalued.