Canadian alcohol/football magnate and actor Ryan Reynolds along with Australian acting/dancing/singing triple threat Hugh Jackman team up again on screen in “Deadpool & Wolverine” this Summer. Doing an extensive interview with each other for , 47-year-old Reynolds and 55-year-old Jackman spoke about getting into superhero shape at their ages and how in some ways it was easy, in others not so much. Reynolds says Jackman’s athleticism was both jaw-dropping and intimidating and made him realise how invaluable a background in song and dance can help with an action film: “You hit your marks in those fight scenes with speed and confidence, the likes of which I have never seen.
I don’t care if you were 25, 35, 45 or 55. It was lightning. Watching you do what just looked like a clinic on stunt work was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen in my life.
You would do stuff where I was convinced when you were coming at me a few times, there is no way this guy’s pulling his punch. I will be decapitated by Hugh Jackman, and that will be his f—ing cross to bear, not mine. When Hugh Jackman is coming at you at 150 Australian miles per hour, you feel like there’s no way you’re not going to be dead in four seconds, and I will never forget that.
And thank God I’m in a mask, because under the mask my face is going, ‘Oh God!'” Jackman says his physicality came from working with stunt coordinator Brian Smrz who introduced the idea of dance training in order to .
