Ryan Reynolds on DEADPOOL budget, rating and more!

The cast and crew of DEADPOOL are currently filming in Vancouver and the film’s star Ryan Reynolds recently opened up to Entertainment Weekly about the long road to bringing the film to screen. The actor says making this movie is a “wish fulfillment” and goes on to compare the film with the larger-budgeted X-Men films. And what about that film rating?

“Yeah, it is a bit of wish fulfillment,” says Reynolds. “I do feel like I flipped a coin in the exact right fountain at some point, but I’m excited. It’s been an incredible year. Actually, we’re just at the beginning of our first week [of filming] so I’m not even into [it] yet fully.”

What’s the most exciting thing about playing the merc with a mouth?

“It’s just how unusual he is. You understand why there was trepidation to make the movie early on? Because it’s a really difficult character to put up on the screen for the studio. He’s a character that’s aware he’s in a film, he’s aware that he breaks the fourth wall. I mean, he does certain things that are unlike anything else in the X-Men Universe yet he is a part of the X-Men Universe. So it makes it a little challenging, I think, to find a way. He’s so popular—the comic book alone [is] one of the most popular selling comic books of all time so it’s exiting to be here shooting it. We don’t have the budget that most X-Men movies do. In the super hero world, this would be considered an independent film.”

On whether the film will receive a PG-13 or R rating, Reynolds says “that debate rages on. We’ll see.”