Ryan Reynolds has revealed he felt “totally intimidated” about teaming up with Kenneth Branagh in their new movie.
While conversing with PEOPLE about the new action-comedy, Mayday, the Henry V star and the Green Lantern star were asked about how they get a chance to work together?
“I guess we might have Marvel’d up, but we didn’t,” Branagh said.
“I can say with complete sincerity, as a big fan, particularly when this script came to me, I thought, ‘Oh, this is all about chemistry,’” Branagh revealed that Reynolds’ performances alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the Hitman’s Bodyguard movies had already caught his attention.
He mentioned, “So I’m being asked to do this in the guesstimation that we might have some sort of rapport. I think that Ryan Reynolds’ generosity is screaming out there. I’m betting on this guy, and I was right.”
Reynolds jumped in the conversation, saying, “I also think there’s two things. One is that when we met, it was as though we knew each other for 20 years. We’d known each other forever.”
He added, “It felt like that. I mean, right away, just in lockstep. There was no overexcitement or anything.”
Reynolds continued, “I was totally intimidated to work with him because he’s a freaking genius, obviously, but at the same time, I’ve done this enough to know that when you’re playing tennis with a superior tennis player, somebody who’s truly gifted, you get better, and I just loved that.”
“I get a front row seat to Ken Branagh. That’s a pinch-me kind of moment anyway,” the Deadpool & Wolverine star shared.
He noted, “But I sat there thinking like, ‘My God, this man is doing a Russian accent. He’s doing kung fu with a pool table triangle. He’s kicking a-- left, right and center, must just go home black and bloody blue every single night. ”
Reynolds praised Branagh for effortlessly handling the demands of a busy film set without ever letting the hard work show.
Mayday is now streaming on Apple TV.
