‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Star Ryan Reynolds Makes Case For Oscars To Award Stunt Work: “I Hope That’ll Change Someday”
deadline.comRyan Reynolds is celebrating the stunt team on Deadpool & Wolverine and making a case for the Oscars to award their work.
In a new social media post, Reynolds honored the performers who stepped in for actors to make the complex action scenes happen and hoped that their work would be more widely recognized. “Stunt work doesn’t have a category at The Oscars and I hope that’ll change someday.
So many films have smashed it this year,” Reynolds shared on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter. “Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Chaplin were stunt performers as well as filmmakers.
Telling stories with their entire bodies.” He continued, “This [Deadpool & Wolverine] stunt team over-delivered. A lot of them are friends I’ve worked with for years and I’ll spend the rest of my days doodling their names in my Heidi Stationary, dotting all the ‘i’s’ with little hearts.” Reynolds gave a shoutout to Alex Kyshkovych, who he says he’s worked with since the first Deadpool movie, adding, “He not only doubles me — he’s the Fight Coordinator.
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