Before Ryan Reynolds was Deadpool, before he was the world’s most charismatic gin salesman, before he was co-owner of a Welsh football club and the internet’s favourite husband, he was an 18-year-old in Vancouver making one very sensible decision after a night out.
The career, the franchise, the whole carefully constructed public image of the most likeable man on the internet, it all very nearly never happened. Reynolds has just gotten candid about an incident from his late teens that, by his own account, changed everything. And the cruellest part? He was doing the right thing.
