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Peaky Blinders star takes on thrilling new role in an action-packed movie alongside Jason Statham.
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29 May 2022, 16:28
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Well you're in luck... sickos.
If you've ever seen the 2010 psychological thriller Buried, you'll know that Ryan Reynolds - lovely Ryan Reynolds from Deadpool and all that - stars as a man who has just woken up buried six feet under, with a mobile phone, a lighter, 90 minutes of air, but no way out. It is terrifying.
Now Reynolds has spoken of how traumatic the filming of said movie was for him, during an appearance on the latest series of legendary talk show host David Letterman's Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
Reynolds said it was one of the harder gigs he's had to go through, saying he 'passed out' while on set.
“This one – out of all the ones I’ve done – I would say was actually really tough,” he said. “Almost everything you see in the movie is one take, with the exception of a couple of moments where I passed out. The thing I wasn’t ready for or realised when I was shooting was that when you’re out breath and you’re not moving to accommodate the increased oxygen in your blood, you pass out."
He continue; “There was one sequence in the movie where I had a paper bag. That's when I would breathe into this paper bag as much as possible before the take and then when I came to, I would grab it, breathe, breathe, breathe, we’d wait for a beat and then we’d keep going.”
Letterman then asked his guest on what made him want to be 'the guy in the coffin for 90 minutes’, with only a ‘cellphone and a Zippo [lighter]' as props.
Reynolds explained: “I love Hitchcock, I love Rope, I love Lifeboat, I love these movies that place unnecessary constraints on the filmmakers, so I thought it felt a little bit like that."
At the time of the film's release, Reynolds told Entertainment Weekly that he'd "never been happier to finish a movie", and that he would "never complain on a film set again".
Wait, you didn't feel happier to finish the abomination that was Green Lantern, Ryan? BOOM BOOM!
Fans of Ryan Reynolds experiencing humiliation may be interested to see him celebrating an offside goal scored by the football team he co-owns, Wrexham A.F.C!
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