TORONTO - Ryan Reynolds admits he’s not always as chipper in the morning as his character in the new comedy film “Free Guy,” about an uber-positive bank teller who discovers he’s actually a background player in a violent video game. “My earliest direction to Ryan was, ‘You need to play this like your most Canadian self. This is not Wade Wilson in ‘Deadpool.’ This is ”Ryan, the Canadian.“ Just friendly, open, civil,’” said Levy, who got an Oscar nomination for producing the film “Arrival” and is executive producer/director on the Netflix series “Stranger Things.“Another homegrown element to “Free Guy”: Alex Trebek. “Killing Eve” star Jodie Comer co-stars as a real-world programmer who plays the “Free City” game and helps Guy realize he’s not a human being. “I think we share a work ethic that sometimes is also our Achilles heel, because it’s a little too intense sometimes.

Source: thestar August 10, 2021 08:03 UTC