With Deadpool, its a lot like going to prison for the first day, Reynolds said. You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred. With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. Theres a gamble to it youre going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually youre going to win them back. You wont lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like
back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies. And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that
The comics are very inconsistent in the writing, Reynolds said. All the different writers, different voices, but at the core of the character his heart is really interesting. Hes the funniest guy youll ever meet, too, and for me thats exciting but its not as hard as capturing that moral flexibility, which is so important. He hasnt really experienced the full spectrum of human emotion the way most people do.
