Ryan Reynolds was on The Tonight Show last night promoting The Change Up, which is one of those body switching movies about a single guy (Reynolds) changing places with a married guy (Jason Bateman). It looks dumb and predictable, and it’s written by the guys who brought us the Hangover movies. The director, David Dobkin, did Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus so it’s not like this is going to be groundbreaking or particularly funny, but I could be wrong.
During his interview Ryan told so many funny self deprecating stories. (You can watch it on NBC.com if you’re in the US.) It’s been a while since I’ve seen an interview with him, and he was just so entertaining. First he talked about how he had some trials and tribulations while filming The Change Up in Atlanta. His first trailer caught fire, his second trailer flooded, his hotel room flooded, then he very quickly glossed over the detail that he split up with then-wife Scarlet Johansson at the time. It was clever the way he rattled it off. “It snowballed. My hotel room flooded, my dog got sick, came down with a slight case of divorce and I broke my pinky finger.” He said it like that very quickly as if it were his dog that got divorced and not him.
He told another story about how he got hit by a drunk driver and sent to the hospital with broken bones when he was 19 – after he had decided to walk home from the bar instead of driving. (He was in Canada at the time, where the “drinking age is six,” he explained.) Then we heard about how he jumped off a bridge in Zurich and broke a vertebrae in his back. His friend jumped, but “I dove, because I’m clinically dumb.”
The best anecdote from Ryan was about how Olivia Wilde’s pasties came off during a sex scene he was filming with her.
“In the scene I take her top off… She has these pasties, but she’s drawn these adorable little smiley faces on them. And I forget every line in the scene… I’m nervous… At some point at the end of the scene she takes my hands and puts them on her breasts. So they’re there, palms are a little sweaty. At the end of the scene I take them off. I’m trying not to look at her like a 14 year-old boy who just won the lady lottery.
“I take my hands away and I look down at my hands and there’s two frickin’ smiley faces. I have no idea what to do, so the scene is over now. I reflexively like an idiot just put my hands back on her breasts. I think I’m doing it like to cover them up, but I’m realizing right now it’s a very fine line between chivalry and workplace sexual assault. Thank God someone comes in with a towel.”
The dude is a natural entertainer that’s for sure. He surely practiced all those stories but he came prepared and his delivery was excellent.
At the premiere for the movie last night, Ryan’s maybe ex-hookup and good friend Sandra Bullock came to support him. (She also could have been there for a producer named Jonathon Komack Martin, who works on The George Lopez show, which she also producers.) The two looked very comfortable together and happy to see each other. Bullock wore a black jumpsuit. I’m not a fan of that look for her, particularly the boob ruffle, but at least the pants aren’t baggy as we’ve seen with so many other jumpsuits lately. The shoes are gorgeous and understated too. Her hair and makeup were so pretty.
Olivia Wilde wore this red Antonio Berardi dress with pointy shoulder pads. The dress itself is bizarre but not that bad. The bright red shoes have got to go. This isn’t a wedding or a prom, you don’t need to match your shoes to your dress! Plus the color is off. She’s cute though. Kaiser wants me to mention the bangs trauma. I’m not a bangs fan either but it’s a decent look for her.
And Leslie Mann wore this gladiator-style white dress with a matching braided belt. Why are sparkly shoulders so popular? At least this isn’t as bad as the dress Anna Paquin wore to the 2010 Emmys. I’m always reminded of that dress when I see this style.
Oh and I can’t forget Jason Bateman!
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I love the white dress! ANd I’m enjoying the stories, I love me some Ryan Reynolds.
Love Jason Bateman, and RYAN (great actor who always delivers)………AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Awwww I Just love him, he is so sweet and funny. Man wish I could hear that divorce joke, lol.
I am hating this pointy shoulder pad dress fad going on at the moment.
I’m not a huge Ryan fan but I want him to be with Charlize Theron. For some reason I find the idea of them together *very* hot đŸ˜€
Sandy looks nice. Olivia not so much.
I am glad that Ryan is enjoying all the “ladies” as he refers to them. He is smart guy, he will find the right one this time.
I’m loving everyone here….they all look good and I love seeing Sandra happy!
I think Jason just gets better as he gets older. I’m really starting to heart him.
Olivia’s wide, straight-across bangs make her face look like one big square. Hate the shoulder pads and the matchy-machy shoes, but the color is nice.
A jaw-breaker candy wouldn’t stand a chance with Olivia.
OMG my pasties just fell off!! RYAN!! HELP!!!
I have loved Jason since I was a child and that love just seems to grow.
I don’t understand the blinged out shoulders but I’m built pretty athletically and I have to downplay anything that draws attention to how wide mine are. It’d be like wearing a bedazzled football jersey for me.
I actually hate watching his interviews. he’s acting the whole time. everything sounds rehearsed like he cant stop refracting himself through the audiences reception of him. it annoys the hell out of me to watch him in interviews because everything is a story or a punchline
I so wish Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock were dating, they seem to really get along so well. Although Charlize Theron is 35 and he is 34 that would make more sense since I get the feeling he would want kids.
There’s something very Charlie Sheen about those Jason Bateman pics…
He is such a weird looking dude. He makes the weirdest faces. Anyone see trollface in the third pic? It’s all I see when I look at him.
Trollface > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trollface-coolface-problem
I am so in love with this man it’s not even funny. I even love his little tiny gerbil eyes.
And I think Olivia Wilde does look better with bangs (she’s got a ‘fivehead’ as Tyra Banks would say) but a sideswept bang is so much better than that craziness. The straight heavy bang makes her Dudley Do-Right jaw look even wider.
I think Sandra is much more stunning than Olivia and I would love Sandra and Ryan as a couple.
Olivia looks awful. The bangs are not a good look for her. Makes her look older and harsh. Not to mention the crazy pointed shoulders are silly.
@Gwen, I totally agree with you. Charlize and Ryan would make an awesome couple. She would be a step over SJ, closer to his age and she is gorgeus. Charlize has so much class and he comes across as sweet and down to earth. I think that’s why people think he is always acting. IMO, that’s just who he is. He is a funny guy, doesn’t pretend, he is who he is.
And he is happy with himself.
I am dissappointed with Olivia wanting to be the Lovelace woman.
I love me some Ryan. Thanks for the post Celebitchy.
Saw the interview last night too. It was okay. He seemed to be laying it on thick though. He’s much better when he’s not trying so hard. I think he definitely wants to hit this one out of the park because The Green Lantern was a stinker – not that I would know this cause it was out of the theaters so fast I missed it.
Sandra is great. She comes across so friendly, natural, and no-nonsense. She seems to have maintained her sense of who she is. So many actors become too fake and plastic. It’s like they’re Hollywood institutionalized, but Sandra is definitely not like that.
Jason – hot. Leslie – adorbs. Olivia – tragic.
I will wear pasties that will “accidentally” fall off if you gave me a chance.
Great, I knew Olivia Wilde was going to appear somewhere in this story. Why not, this is the year of the Wilde and she is in just about every movie to be released this year.
I never noticed Olivia’s face was so square until she put on that hideous dress. Totally unflattering
Ryan is absoilutely hilarious. He makes me smile everytime I see him. Some of these negative comments are from people who are losers and I don’t really think he cares. It showed when he was being asked those ridiculous questions about Sandra and he ignored them. That showed that he has a lot of class and a perfect gentlemen. Some of you people are just jealous. Good for you Ryan and keep up the good work because I will definitely be watching. xoxo.
Olivia would be perfect for a live action anime movie.
I love him! I would rather an entertainer be over prepared then come out on a talk show with nothing to say as Ellen Paige did on Ferguson once. It grates.
I just adore RR, he’s hilarious and a cutie (with a body to die for- yum).
Yay Jason Bateman! Also another cutie.
Sandra B looks great. Looks like her face tweaking has settled, she looks lovely and refreshed.
Olivia is incredibly over rated to me. I think she is so plain Jane.
You guys wanna see a performance? You should look for the clip of Ryan on Sesame Street playing the letter “A” as though he were a superhero. He was totally committed to it and it was hilarious!
I don’t dislike him, but nope. No reaction out of me.
Olivia Wilde is as bland as oatmeal and jowel-y as hell, but I sort of like that she closes her mouth and doesn’t look like trash and is popular.