Ryan Reynolds dishes on the Deadpool suit and Chris Evans’ ‘powerful ass’

Ryan Reynolds at the press conference in Taipei. (Photo: Bryan Huang/Yahoo Singapore)

Ryan Reynolds may have cried tears of joy when he saw the suit his character uses for the movie Deadpool, but it needs one small change.

In a press conference in Taipei on Friday (22 Jan), the 39-year-old actor said it had initially taken him 45 minutes to get in and out of the costume, although towards the end of filming he had cut that time down to 10 with “some shortcuts”.

Despite that, he still needed to remove the suit every time he needed a toilet break.

“If we ever do a sequel, which I hope we do, the first thing I’m going to say… is ‘you have to find a way to let me pee quickly’,” Reynolds said with a laugh.

“We lost days,” the 39-year-old actor joked. He was in the city to promote his new movie, which is scheduled to be released on Valentine’s week across the globe.

Apart from the minor wardrobe issue, Reynolds said the suit was everything he had dreamed of for Deadpool.

“What I would’ve hoped for was to make a comic book character, the first comic book character ever, to feel like he’s truly ripped right out from the pages of the comic book. That suit helped us achieve that. I loved it,” he said.

Reynolds also added the suit was “skin tight”, though he did concede he felt he would lose when asked about an “ass competition” between him and Chris Evans, who plays Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“Chis Evans is Captain America. He has a very powerful ass,” Reynolds said, drawing laughs from the crowd. “I’m from Canada, which is America’s hat. I can imagine we have a slightly smaller ass in Canada.”

Ryan Reynolds at the red carpet in Taipei. (Photo: Bryan Huang/Yahoo Singapore)

The actor looked at home as he candidly joked with the gathered reporters from Taiwan and the Asia Pacific region, after having appeared at a red carpet event the day before.

His tone turned a little more serious, though, when he was asked about the previous time he had played the Merc with a Mouth, in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

“It was just wrong,” Reynolds said of that version of Deadpool.

“I warned them. I remember saying to them, you guys, this is gonna come back to haunt you, and probably haunt me,” he said.

“The Wade Wilson I played in the beginning was correct. I don’t know who made the decision at the studio to sew his mouth shut and not give him all the powers Deadpool has (in the comics). Let’s take away everything that makes him Deadpool.”

“It was very frustrating,” Reynolds said.

He also added that Fox thought the new Deadpool movie “was going to be the troublemakers”.

“I mean they had us shooting, they had X-Men: Apocalypse shooting, they had all these other films shooting, and they thought ‘all right, Deadpool is going to be the one that’s gonna haunt us. Deadpool is gonna be the one that’s a problem’,” he said.

“But we actually finished on time and under budget. The other ones didn’t. I think we surprised them all with how easy it was, because we had a script that we worked on and developed six years ago,” Reynolds said, drawing an exclamation of ‘wow’ from the host.

“We were ready. We were ready to go. All we needed was a bit of money to make the movie and that was it.”

Deadpool opens on 11 Feb.