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"  He would never admit it, his manner is so self-deprecatingly Canadian, but there&amp;#039;s something about Ryan Reynolds that is superhuman.  Last September, when no one was looking, he married Scarlett Johansson. Their wedding at a small eco-resort on Vancouver Island went off without even a whisper of warning on the gossip blogs. We never even saw a photo.  For the past two years, he&amp;#039;s been keeping a work schedule that would make most mortals crumble. He filmed five movies back-toback, with three of them out in the next month. On an ordinary day, he makes Daniel Craig look like Seth Rogen, but to augment his chiseled frame for two new roles, he rose at 4 a.m. to hit the gym and stuck to a steady diet of &amp;quot;chicken and drywall.&amp;quot;  It worked. Jeff Daniels costars with Reynolds in the upcoming Paper Man, in which Reynolds plays a 1950s-era superhero, complete with cape and unitard. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m looking at him, going, I&amp;#039;m not gay,&amp;quot; Daniels says. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;m thinking about it.&amp;quot;   On a rare drizzly day in Santa Monica, Reynolds is driving us to lunch in his Prius. He is sick. Really sick. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got Claritinhead. I&amp;#039;m really sorry,&amp;quot; he croaks. He raises his eyebrows and offers the don&amp;#039;t-hate-me smile he perfected in National Lampoon&amp;#039;s Van Wilder, the 2002 college comedy for which he&amp;#039;s probably still best known.   He&amp;#039;s dressed in jeans and a plaid buttondown covering a white ribbed tank and (presumably) miles of cobblestone abs. He is broad but slight, like a swimmer, and tall. Much taller than most actors. His short, spiky, skate-punk-meets-boy-band hair is slightly caramel from being dyed for so many different parts. &amp;quot;I have a newfound respect for women everywhere,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Nobody should be forced to talk about their hair that much.&amp;quot;  Scarlett is in Milan. They just got back from a two-week road trip through the American Southwest. They took the Prius and plugged it in overnight at each stop. As he&amp;#039;s finally off his training regimen, Reynolds gleefully explains, they used the book Road Food as their guide and stopped in tiny towns for authentic, high-calorie fare. In fact, there&amp;#039;s a particular restaurant at the Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas, he wants to recommend. He says it was better than French Laundry. Or maybe he&amp;#039;s just been eating too much drywall.   Reynolds&amp;#039; unfailing politeness may be the only evidence of his Canadian provenance, other than the tattoo on his right wrist of the Nine O&amp;#039;clock Gun, the cannon that goes off nightly in Vancouver, his hometown. He hates hockey. (&amp;quot;I do find the hairstyles hilarious, however,&amp;quot; he offers.) Maybe that&amp;#039;s because he left Vancouver for Florida when he was 14 to shoot a teen soap, leaving behind three older brothers. Lying to his parents, Jim, a retired Mountie, and Tammy, who worked in retail, honed his ability to role-play at an early age. &amp;quot;I was a lot more manipulative when I was a kid,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I was a fountain of make-believe.&amp;quot;   Playing the premed jokester Berg between 1998 and 2001 in the mediocre Friends knockoff Two Guys and a Girl was his big break. A year later, Van Wilder, now a DVD cult classic, proved he could carry a movie. Reynolds plays a seven-year college student with a Peter Pan complex and a way with the ladies. He showcases his impressive (if slightly lanky) physique with abandon\u2014a monologue in the first scene is delivered entirely without pants.   After Van, frat-boy scripts predictably came flooding in. So did offers to headline Matthew McConaughey-type screwball comedies set on a beach for maximum shirtlessness. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s all I got offered,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Tons and tons of that.&amp;quot; He turned them all down, including a Van Wilder sequel, which starred Kal Penn. Instead, Reynolds signed on for a series of forgettable indie films and took smaller roles in ensemble pieces. He played vampire fighter Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity; in Chaos Theory, his sheepish efficiency expert is covered with so much facial hair it&amp;#039;s hard to find him; he spent half of Just Friends in a fat suit. &amp;quot;Oh, Ryan Reynolds. We like you,&amp;quot; read a typical review. &amp;quot;We want to see you succeed. And yet you keep making the wrong choices.&amp;quot;   By the time he married Johansson, half the world said, &amp;quot;Oh, the tall guy with the abs.&amp;quot; The other half said, &amp;quot;I loved him in The Notebook,&amp;quot; referring to the tearjerker starring another Canadian, Ryan Gosling.   With Reynolds&amp;#039; recent choices, he&amp;#039;s found a way to ensure that there won&amp;#039;t be any more Canadian-Ryan confusion. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s not just some trend with a funky hairdo that requires hours of molding to get juuuuuuust right,&amp;quot; says Sandra Bullock, Reynolds&amp;#039; good friend and costar in this month&amp;#039;s The Proposal, a classic romantic comedy in which he plays her put-upon-assistant-turned-unwitting-fianc\u00E9. Anne Fletcher, the movie&amp;#039;s director, calls him &amp;quot;a combo platter of Jack Lemmon and Chevy Chase. You can&amp;#039;t learn that. He changes the smallest muscles in his face and the world shifts.&amp;quot;   In the drama Fireflies in the Garden, which also opens this month, he plays a grown-up version of Willem Defoe and Julia Roberts&amp;#039; tortured son. &amp;quot;His performance is so delicate and fully realized,&amp;quot; Roberts says. &amp;quot;I felt like a very proud mother.&amp;quot;   His role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is also a supporting one. But Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, is not any old mutant with superpowers. Deadpool wields wit and katana swords, both extra sharp. &amp;quot;He relies on humor to get through a situation. But he&amp;#039;s also borderline insane. And I like that about him,&amp;quot; Reynolds says. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to be Superman. He&amp;#039;s such a wanker.&amp;quot;  (Truthfully, Reynolds didn&amp;#039;t have much of a choice. Rabid comic book fans all but demanded his casting, as in the very pages &amp;quot;more breakfast.&amp;quot; When he cooked sea bass recently, &amp;quot;it looked like low tide at Coney Island. I don&amp;#039;t know what happened.&amp;quot;   Reynolds developed his Obama-caliber deflection techniques through experience. Johansson is not his first high-profile romance. He dated Alanis Morissette for four years; by 2004 they were engaged. Then Reynolds turned 30 and had an early midlife crisis. &amp;quot;I started to feel really reflective,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I really wanted absolute yesses in my life, as opposed to maybes.&amp;quot;   He ended their relationship and set off with a friend for a head-clearing motorcycle ride across Australia. &amp;quot;We were hoping for Easy Rider,&amp;quot; Reynolds says, &amp;quot;but it was wet and awful, and he crashed. I had to double him on my bike to the next town. It looked like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where they&amp;#039;re clinging to each other on a scooter.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Morissette aired her views on the breakup in her raw 2008 album Flavors of Entanglement.   Reynolds decided to make a movie called The Nines, written and directed by John August. In it there&amp;#039;s a scene where his character, an actor who has just broken up with his girlfriend, lights a match and throws it on a pile of lighter-fluid-soaked clothes to burn watermelons. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not obvious how to play it,&amp;quot; says Michele Mulroney. &amp;quot;You could fall flat on your face. I think that tightrope walk appealed to him.&amp;quot;  In a way, Reynolds has been training for Captain Excellent his whole genrejumping career. And he nails it. &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t hang your hat on comedy, you can&amp;#039;t hang your hat on action,&amp;quot; Daniels says. &amp;quot;He gave us everything he had. That kind of commitment, that&amp;#039;s what actors want to work with. They don&amp;#039;t want somebody who has a safety net and stays inside their comfort zone. Ryan is fearless. He&amp;#039;ll do anything.&amp;quot;  He has not signed on to any new projects yet, although Disney did buy a show he wrote about four brothers, based on the brothers Reynolds, that he&amp;#039;d like to direct. And rumor has it that by introducing Deadpool inside Wolverine, Fox is testing the waters for a Reynolds-Deadpool franchise. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very easy to fall in line and do the same thing over and over again,&amp;quot; he says as we&amp;#039;re getting up from lunch. &amp;quot;You get rewarded for that greatly. But I&amp;#039;m not always jokey. I&amp;#039;m not a hysterical guy to sit and have lunch with all the time. I&amp;#039;m a moody bastard, too.&amp;quot;   He pauses, looks outside, and says, &amp;quot;You sure you don&amp;#039;t need a ride?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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