Ryan Reynolds: Why Free Guy is more than a 'video game movie'

<div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00"><strong class="ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3"><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XTCTrWS4FkE" width="1280" height="720" frameborder="0"></iframe></strong></p> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00"><strong class="ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3">It's difficult to hear the name Ryan Reynolds without thinking of Deadpool, the sweary and sarcastic alternative superhero he's best known for playing.</strong></p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">But in his latest summer blockbuster Free Guy, the Canadian actor portrays an altogether different kind of hero.</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">Reynolds stars as a kind and wholesome - but ultimately quite ordinary - bank clerk named Guy. Compared with the 44-year-old's previous film roles, it's quite a gear change.</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"Well, my default is just pure trash, on the inside," he laughs. "So this is slightly new for me. There's something really wonderful about playing a character who's kind of naïve and innocent."</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">The movie's titular character lives in Free City, a fictional universe within a video game. (The premise is a little out there, but we'll come to that in a second.)</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">After a chance encounter with a young woman named Millie, played by British actress Jodie Comer, he begins to question the confines of the virtual world around him.</p> </div> </div> <div class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87"> <div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1"> <p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"I think there's something really fun about exploring everything with new eyes, which is what this character gets to do, and filtering that through the prism of comedy and occasionally cynicism," Reynolds says.</p> </div> </div>

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