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Ryan Reynolds Says ‘I Let Go of Getting Paid’ on ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Took the Little Salary I Had Left’ to Pay for the Screenwriters to Be on Set
Ryan Reynolds says the first "Deadpool" movie did not have the budget to pay his writers to be on set during filming. So he paid them himself.
Ryan Reynolds recently spoke to The New York Times ahead of the release of “ Deadpool and Wolverine” and remembered the humble beginnings of his R-rated superhero franchise. Reynolds even paid out of pocket for his screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to be on set because the scrappier production was not that of a normal comic book tentpole. Reese and Wernick revealed back in 2016 as the original “Deadpool” movie was opening in theaters that they worked on the script with Reynolds for at leasts six years, adding: “It was really a core creative team of us, Ryan, and the director Tim Miller.
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