Ryan Reynolds, who was last seen in Deadpool & Wolverine, has disclosed a treasurable piece of advice he received from filmmaker Richard Curtis. The filmmaker is known for classic rom-coms such as Love Actually and About Time.

The advice, interestingly, was about how the characters he chooses should be. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CMO Summit in New York City, he said, “I remember he once said to me when I was very young, I was like 40. He said every character has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. [The advice] really kind of stuck with me."

Reynolds first applied this to the advertising space, when he would promote brands. “I sort of brought that even into that space with, ‘How do you do that in 30 seconds or 15 seconds as well?’. I really do believe that too much time and too much money will murder creativity; it will just kill it.”

On the same topic, he further elaborated on how he uses humour while working on advertisements. "Well, humour and emotion are the two feelings that I think travel the most. Humour works so well, and so does emotion. But if you get them together, it really, really just creates togetherness. It creates that feeling that we’re all right now; we’re not divided," he explained.

Following Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds recently produced the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. He is also set to produce Animal Friends, the Peter Atencio directorial in which he plays the lead alongside Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn, Eric André, Addison Rae, Ellie Bamber, Rob Delaney, Lil Rel Howery, Dan Levy, and Aubrey Plaza.

He will reprise his role as Deadpool in Avengers: Doomsday, which is slated to open in theatres on December 18, 2026. Also in his pipeline is the action-adventure film, Mayday.