Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one dialed up for you this week

with the man of the moment in Hollywood.

He is Ryan Reynolds.

His film, Deadpool and Wolverine recently became the single highest grossing

R-rated film in the history of Hollywood. No R-rated movie ever made has made more money

than did Deadpool and Wolverine, which co-stars his real life buddy

Hugh Jackman. If you don't know the story about Deadpool, Ryan of course has had a great career before

Deadpool, lots of romantic comedies and other films, but he really wanted to make this

movie about a comic book character that he knew called Deadpool that had kind of a cult following.

Couldn't get a studio to get behind it and ultimately had some, well let's say

test footage, animated test footage made a couple of minutes of what the movie might look like.

Mysteriously, as we'll hear us discuss in a second,

that footage found its way onto the internet

and fans went crazy demanding a standalone Deadpool movie.

They got it. The first one in 2016 became a hit, two more

since and now this record smashing edition this summer in Deadpool and Wolverine.

You know Ryan, I'm not going to get big wind up on who he is, a great guy, a guy

I've known for just over a decade and we bonded because both of our fathers have Parkinson's

disease. We're both on the board of the Michael J Fox Foundation and

he's given so much of his time and his fame and his platform to helping the

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