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DEFINITELY MAYBE
An Interview with Ryan Reynolds

 

DEFINITELY MAYBE
An Interview with Ryan Reynolds
, continued
by Cole Smithey

February 11, 2008

CS: What's your next movie?

RR: The next movie I have is a movie with Sandra Bullock ("The Proposal"). But I start that in late March. It's a comedy we're shooting in Boston.


CS: Can you talk a little about your film "Fireflies in the Garden" with Julia Roberts?

RR: It's a movie that's opening the Berlin Film Festival. It's a story about a family basically. It's a family that's disrupted by the death of the matriarch.


CS: What is it like working with someone as iconic as Julia Roberts?

RR: It's incredible to work with her because she's such a class act. I think that's the only way you could survive this long and be that well regarded.


CS: So "Fireflies in the Garden" is a drama. Do you find it any easier to do drama than comedy?

RR: Yeah, in a sense doing a drama is easy. It's a little more straightforward. I mean with comedy your brain can kind of lock up at the possibilities of every moment. There's 80 different ways to time a scene. Timing is a very crucial part of comedy. So, with drama, it's a little bit more fluid.


CS: Do you have any social causes that you support?

RR: In terms of causes that I'm passionate about--there's many, politically speaking. I think somebody has to be critically stupid to not be involved in politics these days. I mean, the fate of the world, I think, hangs in the balance.

I have an organization that I work for called FOMO, which is "Friends of the Mulanje Orphans, which is an African organization that I love. You know I went over there in the summer with John August, who wrote and directed a movie I did called "The Nines." We just went together as a pseudo sort of vacation slash just-going-to-check-it-out. We just really wanted to go see it without any kind of ulterior motive. There's this woman Mary Wadsworth who single-handedly saved four thousand orphans herself. So that's a pretty incredible organization there in Mulanje.


CS: If you could work for any political candidate now. Who would it be?

RR: Any political candidate now? Ted Kennedy,,,no uh (laughs) let me think. I think I would probably put my hat.....uh, look I think...OK, I think I'll avoid the land mine right now. I would probably work for Barack Obama. I do enjoy him.


CS: Why?

RR: I met him and I liked what he had to say. Unfortunately not everyone gets to meet these guys, but you get a real sense of them in a way that you can't just from the political rhetoric. And they are all guilty of it. They're all like Cathy dolls pulling thier own strings, but they have to in a sense because that's the way the political landscape is set up.


I met Barack Obama. I swooned.


CS: Have you met Bill Clinton?

RR: No, I haven't. But I would also swoon.


CS: Can you vote here in America?

RR: Not at all. I can't vote at all in America, and you know that doesn't dissuade me from getting involved in it. I think the President is also the President of the most powerful country in the entire world. It affects the entire world.


CS: I understand that Abigail beat you in a dance contest.

RR: There was a dance-off and that was the consensus. But you know I didn't whip out any of my "A"-game dance moves.

 


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