Time for Living , July 2011 5 Interview


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on screen. The 34-year-old heart-throb has now made his transition from comic actor to big-budget action man com- plete by squeezing into the tight latex suit of the Green Lantern. To play the pilot-turned-interstellar


police officer,the actor endured hours of training for elaborate fight scenes and buffed up. "I had to wear that suit, so Iput my


stand out from the recent slew of comic book adaptations because it's morelight-hearted. "A lot of the current iterations of superheroes arealittle bit darker and moreserious in tone. But this is abit of athrowback in the sense that there's a lot of fun with the character. "Hal's witty,he's that guy who can


required time in the gym," he says. Reynolds says Green Lanternwill


YANReynolds is only too aware of the responsibility that comes with bringing asuperherotolife


throw apunch, tell ajoke and kiss agirl. There's something really iconic about him because anything's possible. Bornthe son of aMountie and the youngest of four brothers in Vancouver, Reynolds has come along way since his first forays into Canadian TV in teen soap Hillside. "I wanted to be TomHanks. Ithought,


'How hardcan it be? Youget on sitcom, you branch out into movies and you've got it made'." His breakout role came in 2002 as the titular student in VanWilder: Party


Liaison and astring of romcoms fol- lowed. But by 2008, he was still most- ly known for being married to Scarlett Johansson. Following his split from Johansson in December,heproved his acting mettle by shouldering the entireweight of thriller Buried as theonlyactor on screen. He's been voted Sexiest Man Alive for


three years running, but doesn't really understand what makes him sexy. "It's individual for everybody.Ialways


gies on his burgeoning career. It's definitely his time to shine.


think that self-deprecation can be charming and sexy,but Idon't know," he says sheepishly. Now Reynolds is focusing his ener-


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