![]() Wherever he is, he snacks on these orange bars called Zero Impact Pumpkin Supremes-"sort of like a pumpkin made out of cinder block," he quips. On the kitchen counter of the house he rents in New Orleans is a huge jar of a white powder called Isolyze, primarily whey protein. On the Green Lantern set, I watch him eat his usual plate of steamed chicken, salmon, broccoli, carrots, and rice. (Precisely why a New York publishing assistant-his character in The Proposal-should have, or need, this level of muscular definition is unclear, other than that he is the star of a movie that will often find him partially or fully unclothed in Sandra Bullock's company.) "It was a strange sort of sleight-of-hand trick I learned-I could do it again if I needed to and get there faster if I needed to." ![]() Reynolds is at pains to point out that this isn't his natural, or permanent, way of being, just something he is currently doing for the third time, for Green Lantern, after Blade: Trinity and The Proposal. At least Blade: Trinity gave him the body. "Everything went so horribly wrong on that set," he remembers, though he still takes some pride in the film's most celebrated linguistic invention ("you cock-juggling thunder"). His remarkable torso was first developed during rehearsals for Blade: Trinity, the unsatisfying continuation of Wesley Snipes's vampire series. "Everybody loved Ryan, and they all wanted to go and support the movie," says Lively, "but they all thought, 'Okay, this will be interesting to see how this turns out.' As much as I like Ryan, I thought, 'I don't think I can watch anybody in a box for an hour and a half.'" How could that work, or be worthwhile, or even tolerable? Reynolds himself had much the same reaction when he was first told about the script: "I just thought, There's no possible way that could be any good." The camera never once leaves his enclosure. The whole of Buried consists of footage of the buried man-Reynolds-in his coffin. What they already knew gave them some trepidation. Blake Lively, who appears with Reynolds in the superhero film he is now making, Green Lantern, describes the mood before a Buried screening that had been set up for the Green Lantern cast and crew in New Orleans. ![]() Ryan Reynolds's new movie is an unusual one.īuried tells the story of a contractor buried alive in Iraq. ![]()
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