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Ryan Reynolds Just Revealed He Had to Pay for One Shocking Thing Himself to Finish the Original ‘Deadpool’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When you think of Marvel movies, you typically think of big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big movies with massive budgets. But Ryan Reynolds just confessed
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  Speaker 2: to The New York Times he had to whip out
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  Speaker 2: his own checkbook on the set of the first Deadpool
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  Speaker 2: in order to have something he desperately wanted on set writers.
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  Speaker 2: He says, no part of me thought Deadpool would be
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  Speaker 2: a success. I even let go of getting paid to
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  Speaker 2: do the movie just to put it back on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: They would not allow my co writers At Reese and
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  Speaker 2: Paul Warnick on the set, so I took the little
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  Speaker 2: salary I had left and paid them to be on
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  Speaker 2: set with me to form a writer's room. One of
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  Speaker 2: the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money.
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  Speaker 2: In that movie had neither. It really fostered focusing on
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  Speaker 2: character over spectacle. Ryan Reynolds there on the making of
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  Speaker 2: the first Deadpool without much money. Deadpool Wolverine is out now.
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