Ryan Reynolds has admitted that he learned an important lesson during the making Green Lantern.
The 49-year-old Canadian-American actor and film producer was present on Tuesday, November 18 The Wall Street Journal CMO Council Summitwhere he reflected on his 2011 superhero film based on the DC Comics character.
When moderator Maryam Banikarim asked Reynolds to find a past failure in his career that helped him learn a lesson.
He replied: “Creatively, it’s hard to say. Someone could say Green Lantern. You laugh, but my son, it’s his favorite movie and he watches it every day.”
The Deadpool and Wolverine star further asked the audience, “Do you understand the work I had to do to get to the place where I can just pass by that screen and not say, ‘Well, we could have [done something to make it better]?’”
For those who don’t know, Reynolds first met his now wife Blake Lively on set Green Lantern, which turned out to be a critical and commercial failure.
The Just friends hero waited five years for his comic book stardom that at the Deadpool series in 2016, adapted from the Marvel Comics character.
Recalling his creative approach earlier in his career, he joked, “But you know, that was a time in my life when I was like, ‘Yes, sir, no, sir. How high can I jump, sir?'”
“You’re sitting there and you say, ‘I have very strong thoughts and opinions on a creative issue,’ and someone else in another movie, I remember, made a creative decision, and ‘I thought, that’s a nail in the coffin that I’m going to be in alone,'” Ryan Reynolds noted.
