Ryan Reynolds Jokingly Calls His Parents 'Absolute Failures' for Letting Him See R-Rated Movies as a Kid
justjared.comRyan Reynolds is looking back at some of his early movie-watching experiences! The 45-year-old actor stopped by The Today Show on Monday (March 7), where he shared that his latest film, The Adam Project, was inspired by the classics he watched as a kid. Click inside to read more… “There’s, like, real spectacle-driven wish fulfillment.
Something I love about ’80s Amblin movies like E.T. and Back to the Future, even Stand By Me, those kinds of movies that are steeped in nostalgia for us,” he said.
He went on to say that the movie is “engineered to audience delight.” “I don’t wanna make movies that contribute to any of the weight people are already carrying around, certainly in the last few years,” Ryan said. “These movies remind me of when I was a kid and I would watch these movies with my dad, like Back to the Future, and we would both think it was the coolest movie we’d ever seen.
They don’t bifurcate the audience; they really hit both kids and adults in equal measure.” The actor also joked that his three kids — daughters James, 7, Inez, 5, and Betty, 2, who he shares with wife Blake Lively — are “like me, when I was a kid I used to watch all the movies you weren’t supposed to watch.” “I keep coming home, I’m like, ‘What— why is this on?!’ ” he joked. “The first rated-R movie I ever saw was Stand By Me.
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