Ryan Reynolds Interviews: Actor Reveals Which Role Propelled Him to Take On 'Deadpool'

There is arguably no other actor better suited to play Deadpool (a.k.a. Wade Wilson) better than Ryan Reynolds, especially since the two share some very striking similarities as far as their personalities are concerned.

Reynold's portrayal of Deadpool is actually years in the making, and it all started when he took on the role of Hannibal King in "Blade Trinity."

According to Movie Pilot, after seeing his performance in "Blade Trinity," an executive came up to the actor and said that since he is "basically playing" Deadpool anyway, he should be the one to play him in the feature-length film.

Reynolds later made a cameo as the character in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," but this 2016, he is finally getting his time under the sun as Deadpool.

Reynolds absolutely loves the foul-mouthed character, and he researched everything he could about Deadpool in order to provide a compelling portrayal.

"I pored through the comics and realized that this character occupies a space in the comic book universe that nobody else does," he said. "There are moments where we really just venture into the heart of darkness and stay there for a few beats, but then it also has this very humorous undertone. We can go places and do things with this that you couldn't do with any other superhero property."

What Reynolds also appreciates about "Deadpool" is the raw honesty of its storytelling. The lead character is not charismatic nor good-looking because he is disfigured and mentally unstable. He is also so talkative that he has been called the "Merc with the Mouth." The one good thing about Deadpool is that despite his crazy antics, he has a strong sense of moral values.

"Well, every comic book movie I go to nobody (expletive) dies!" Reynolds said during an interview with Collider. "I mean, like, everybody's getting shot at, it's like an episode of 'The A-Team,' you know, everyone's shooting the ground - so, we get an opportunity to do this in a way that follows all the scripture that Deadpool's laid out, which is fourth-wall breaking, that kind of mercenary sensibility and humor and then we also have this opportunity, which is very rare in this world, to do something that's not necessarily for just kids. There's some pretty racy, pretty hyper-violent things that happen in this movie and it's been a lot of fun to shoot."