The Adam Project director: "We expect Ryan Reynolds to be heroic and funny – but we don’t expect him to make us cry"

The Adam Project
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"When we signed up for a time-travel adventure, I’m not sure that either one of us knew it would become one of his greatest dramatic performances of his career," director Shawn Levy tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Total Film in the . "The amount of emotional authenticity he brings to this👍 performance... we expect him to be a movie star, heroic and funny. But we don’t ex🎃pect Ryan Reynolds to make us cry."

It's certainly a surprise hearing that Netflix's upcoming movie The Adam Project features such a dramatic turn from Reynolds, last seen on the streaming service as a comedic crook in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Notice.𒅌 Yet, though his latest venture may be a fun, time-traveling escapade that sees his character revisit his youth and his father (played by Mark Ruffalo), Reynolds had a deeply personal connection to the script, especially when it came to plumbing the depths of his own relationship with his father, who passed away in 2020.

"There are lines written in the script that I put there because they’re true," Reynolds says. "There’s a line in the movie that my younger self says: 'I know why you hate [your father]. You’re you because he died.' I think that’s part of the reason I had a frustration with my own father – it’s that he died, and I wasn’t able to say andꦅ do the things I wanted to do with him. I wasn’t able to experience all the good parts of him or reconcile some of the bad parts of him. So I think that lands as well."

The Adam Project

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He stares down for a beat anꦆd then that famous grin💝 breaks across his face. "I mean, when we talk about this, it sounds like it’s this really heady, emotional movie," he laughs. "But it’s a very fun, popcorn, space-time continuum sort of extravaganza. But these stories and that part of it are what make it worth doing."

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