Ryan Reynolds had fears of an “absentee” father while making the Deadpool movies

Creating a healthy work-life balance can be tricky for anyone, especially when you’re writing and starring in one of the biggest superhero movie franchises.

Ryan Reynolds Teased what’s in store for Deadpool’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while talking to Andrew Garfield for diverseof The “actors about actors” series. on Monday, December 9. In particular, he opened up about wanting to be there for him and his wife Blake LivelyThe four children of the four children can share when and where fans will see Deadpool next.

“My feeling is that a character works very well in two ways, one is scarcity and surprise,” he said while talking about the success of Deadpool and WolverineReleased in July. “It’s been six years since the last one (of 2018 Deadpool 2), and part of the reason is that it consumes my whole life. You can’t take your hand off the stick all the way through development, through post-production to marketing and promo, and then, you kind of (stop).

Discussing his children, he added: “I never want to be absent, and I never want to miss things. I’m, like, dead inside when I see their faces and they have a competition or they have something sports or something and I missed it.”

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Reynolds and Lively, who married in 2012, are parents to daughters James, 9, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, as well as son Olin, born in February 2023. Reynolds became Deadpool and Wolverine to enter into a family affair by giving his wife and children make cameos Like the Deadpool versions Ladypool, Kidpool and Babypool.

Deadpool and Wolverine Mark Reynolds’ third solo outing as the Apothecary with a Mouth and see him team up with an alternate version of Hugh Jackmanof Wolverine to help save his universe from extinction. The film dominated the summer, earning more than $1.3 billion at the box office worldwide, according to Forbes. It has since become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time.

Despite the film’s achievements, Reynolds admitted that he doesn’t know when Deadpool will return. “I know that (director) Shawn (Levi) And I made the film so that it would have a beginning, middle and end and be a complete experience instead of a commercial for another film,” he said. “And I think that, sort of, sometimes it’s important to make room for a film to be just a film.”

As for Deadpool’s next on-screen appearance, Reynolds said the character could take a step back from the spotlight. “I see Deadpool as a supporting character much more than he is the main (character), the center,” he shared. “We center him sometimes because that’s what they want, but you can’t center him unless you take everything away from him. You have to create a situation where he’s such an underdog, and I don’t think I can do that again. So if he comes back, it will be in someone else’s movie.”

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Reynolds even has a potential project in mind that he’d like to see Deadpool appear in.Channing Tatum Was so excited to play Gambit (b Deadpool and Wolverine), and I would happily be the fifth banana in his or anyone else’s movie,” he said.

Fans will have to wait and see when Deadpool makes his way back to the MCU. But for now, Reynolds is holding viewers back Another exciting project. “I spend the year writing,” he teased in an interview with diverse last month “I’m writing a movie for myself, Hugh and Shawn to do that is not Marvel.”