Starring in and producing one of the most successful superhero movies of all time has to be a great way to make up for past failures, and one can assume that Deadpool and Wolverine’s Avengers-topping billion-dollar box office went a long way in tamping down the stigma of Ryan Reynolds having also starred in one of the biggest flops of the modern era, Green Lantern. But it sounds like he still can’t avoid the DC flick coming up repeatedly in his daily life, and it’s not just from social media trolls.
As it turns out, while Green Lantern’s glaring sights and sounds didn’t win over general audiences when it hit theaters in 2011, it eventually did win the heart and mind of someone very important to the lead actor: his son. (As well as someone at CinemaBlend, though they’re clearly not as important to the celeb.) For a Q&A event for the Wall Street Journal’s Leadership Institute, Reynolds was asked about a noteworthy failure in his career, to which he shared this amusing anecdote:
