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  • This is Ryan Reynolds.

  • I am.

  • So sorry about that.

  • But yes, this is Hugh Jackman.

  • And today we're going to be comparing each other's IMDb pages.

  • Yep, and Hugh, spoiler alert, will come out on top.

  • In every way or shape.

  • Let's give the people what they came for.

  • Deadpool and Wolverine.

  • Let's compare.

  • Highest Starmeter ranking.

  • I have never looked at my ranking.

  • I'd love to know what it is today.

  • Me too.

  • Ryan, your highest was number two.

  • I never cracked number one.

  • With Chaos Theory in 2008 and Deadpool in 2016.

  • The algorithm at IMDb is clearly broken.

  • Hugh's now hit number one with X-Men in 2000.

  • And X2, X-Men United.

  • There's a lot of Xs.

  • Can we retitle that movie?

  • That's not good.

  • And all I see is 2002.

  • Yeah, wow.

  • It's been a...

  • Yeah, right?

  • It's just a long, slow descent.

  • I hope it's been slow.

  • It might have just been...

  • Hugh, you're 10,641.

  • Alright, so this is clever branding.

  • I see what you've done here.

  • Okay, wow.

  • Let's compare prior careers.

  • Oh, yes.

  • Ryan, you used to work in a grocery store.

  • And you stocked shelves.

  • I did, yeah.

  • In Vancouver.

  • One of the best shelves I've ever had.

  • Safeway.

  • Thank you.

  • Hello, Safeway.

  • Steve, Peter, everybody.

  • Okay, Hugh was a P.E. teacher before becoming an actor.

  • His life goal early on was to become an international journalist.

  • That's so true.

  • Wow.

  • That last bit is true.

  • Yeah.

  • P.E. teacher.

  • I was 18 and I was negligently put in charge of kids when I was only 18.

  • And had not gone to university.

  • And I was getting paid 50 pounds a week, living at a boarding school.

  • But people are kind of born a certain way.

  • I feel like you still would have been a responsible, generous, kind, 18-year-old P.E. teacher.

  • That really was.

  • Yeah.

  • Everything was great.

  • Let's compare highest rate of performance.

  • Ryan, Wade Deadpool in 2008, an 8 out of 10 IMDb rating.

  • Wow.

  • That only gets an 8.

  • You as Wade.

  • Hugh, as Ryan in The Prestige, got 8.5.

  • An amazing move.

  • Again.

  • Like you've worked with some of them.

  • Yeah, that was amazing.

  • People think they know you for playing the guy with the little utensils for hands.

  • But boy, you've got other talents, my friend.

  • But can I just say, comedy is really overlooked.

  • Yeah, the Academy just keeps f***ing around on that one.

  • Right?

  • It really is.

  • Yep.

  • I hope the Academy is watching.

  • Oh, I'm winning this.

  • I'm totally winning this one.

  • What?

  • I mean, I've won a Razzie.

  • Have you won a Razzie?

  • I have not.

  • I was in a movie that won a Razzie.

  • Thank you for giving people terrible ideas.

  • Movie 43, I think, won a Razzie.

  • A bunch of them, maybe.

  • But not you personally.

  • The movie.

  • Yeah.

  • I don't like to say that.

  • It makes me relatable and brings me, you know, things like that.

  • It's just mean.

  • It's just a mean concept.

  • Whoever's behind that is f***ing mean.

  • Davis.

  • I forgot the name of the character.

  • Davis.

  • In the segment, The Catcher, movie 43, which is a bunch of short films.

  • I was in the one where I had testicles hanging from my neck.

  • Do not look that up.

  • Do not.

  • Do not.

  • When you look it up in the search bar, too, don't hit images or video.

  • And the one you don't know, they were prosthetic.

  • I actually had them fitted in my kitchen, and my children are still in therapy.

  • Yeah.

  • And I will tell you firsthand, potent as hell.

  • I was Carl O'Reilly.

  • I didn't even know the name of my character.

  • In Bolt Neck, FKA, Big Monster on...

  • A.K.A. Big...

  • FKA, does that say?

  • Or A.K.A.?

  • FKA?

  • F***ing known as Big Monster on Campus from the year 2000.

  • So, you know, I also have been around.

  • So yours was a 4.7.

  • 4.7.

  • I hit a 4.3.

  • I feel like both of us, these ratings are very high.

  • I want to read the description of the movie.

  • A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.

  • How can you not say yes to that movie?

  • I mean, right?

  • Right?

  • Can I tell one thing?

  • I've done a lot, like an inordinate amount of body-switching movies.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah, I don't know what that...

  • Change-ups.

  • Change-ups.

  • Yeah, like they're all kind of...

  • There's a lot of it in even Pikachu.

  • Detective Pikachu's kind of a body, you know?

  • Okay.

  • Like, I've got to figure this out.

  • There's more to it.

  • Huh?

  • Something's not right, Frank.

  • Yeah, so let's compare People's Sexiest Man Alive.

  • That's very nice, IMDb, referencing another...

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Very nice.

  • Okay, Ryan, your honoree in 2010.

  • 2010.

  • Johnny Depp was the honoree in 2009.

  • Okay.

  • Oh, I was 2008.

  • 2008.

  • Back when you had it.

  • Yeah, and you were also one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People Five Years Running between 1961 and 1966.

  • That is incredible.

  • It was incredible.

  • As a fetus.

  • How did they get that ultrasound of your parents?

  • It's true.

  • It's true.

  • It was amazing.

  • Well, I was styled.

  • I was styled in there.

  • I wasn't in 2004.

  • I don't want anyone to think that, yeah.

  • But wow, 50 Most Beautiful People.

  • That sounds exclusionary.

  • Let's move to the next one here.

  • Okay, so let's compare trademarks.

  • Ryan often plays likable regular guys.

  • What they're not saying is himself, which I don't know why that gets a bad rap.

  • You know, all the guys I looked up to as a kid, all of them.

  • Cary Grant.

  • True.

  • I agree.

  • Sarcastic, sharp-edged wit paired with a frequent stone-faced delivery.

  • Stone-faced.

  • Okay.

  • And a tattoo on his left wrist.

  • Yeah, that's kind of, yeah, I wish he didn't have it.

  • It's a 9 o'clock gun, which is in Vancouver.

  • It's a cannon that goes off every night at 9 o'clock.

  • It has a curfew way, way back in the day.

  • I think World War I it was a curfew.

  • Really?

  • I might be getting that wrong.

  • And that's an interesting historical fact and a sightseeing moment.

  • Well, shocking that Canada has a gun.

  • I agree.

  • Like, our military's mostly pylons.

  • Have you ever talked publicly about why it was on your wrist?

  • I don't know.

  • I was young and I was in Australia.

  • I was in Byron Bay and I got that tattoo there.

  • Nice.

  • Yeah, right?

  • Yeah, crazy, right?

  • Crazy.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, my trademarks.

  • I think I should read them because it's going to make me very embarrassed.

  • Ruggedly handsome features.

  • Okay, yeah.

  • Right, sure.

  • Wow.

  • Yeah, this morning.

  • Every morning it looks pretty rugged to me.

  • Oh, boy.

  • Yeah, straight roadkill.

  • Renowned for his persuasive American accent.

  • Thank you.

  • Chest plat.

  • My dialect coach will be very happy to hear that.

  • Muscular physique.

  • What are you talking about?

  • Yeah.

  • Wow, look at that.

  • Those prosthetics are firing on all cylinders.

  • Deep resonant voice.

  • Deep resonant voice.

  • Yep.

  • And a nice guy reputation.

  • Well, let's not get crazy on MTV.

  • There's no real rating on that, is there?

  • No real rating system there.

  • True.

  • Such a nice man.

  • Hey, I never asked for this.

  • Okay, let's compare.

  • Now, first IMDb credits.

  • Ryan is Billy Simpson.

  • That was the first job I ever did in show business.

  • In 15 and Hillside.

  • Talk us through the backstory for Billy.

  • If you remember the research you did.

  • Research.

  • I mean, I just, yeah, it was unbelievable.

  • I remember it paid like $250 a week.

  • That's awesome.

  • No, it was awesome.

  • At the time, I was like, I am loaded.

  • Like, I am going to do some crazy business.

  • So you're $250 a week.

  • I got my first job in 9 feet was $1,200 a week.

  • So, Australian.

  • Oh, that's like Dracula's.

  • I mean, that's...

  • Holy...

  • Charles Chicka McCray.

  • All my mates call me Chicka still because I was so bad.

  • Because of this?

  • Yeah.

  • I didn't know you were Charles in charge.

  • And I was a football...

  • That was you.

  • That was me.

  • It does make sense now.

  • Wait, so hold on, Chicka was you?

  • Charles Chicka McCray.

  • I was like a footballing legend that accidentally got in a fight and the guy died.

  • And see, I did my backstory.

  • The guy died from the punch.

  • And then all of a sudden...

  • You punched him?

  • Yeah, like, you know, a bit of a scrap on field or something.

  • Anyway, but the footage of me pretending to be an AFL football star is humiliating.

  • And all my friends are like, Chicka, let's go and play footy.

  • And I'm like, they still call me Chicka.

  • Yes, we have a few of those in our...

  • A few of those skeletons in our closet.

  • Oh, come on.

  • What happens on the field stays on the field.

  • Let's compare Oscar nominations.

  • Ryan has watched the Oscars five times.

  • Five time Oscar viewer Ryan Reynolds.

  • And Hugh has won nomination.

  • No, that's not only one.

  • For Best Actor in 2013's Les Mis.

  • Yes, I did host.

  • And you did host.

  • But could we compare how many times you've been asked?

  • I'm sure you've been asked.

  • Wait, so this...

  • Can you talk properly over how many times you've been asked to host the Oscars?

  • I have been asked to host the Academy Awards.

  • And I feel like, no offense, that's a tough order.

  • You crushed it.

  • But my feeling is that if it works out perfectly, you break even.

  • A hundred percent.

  • But the expectations for me was...

  • I remember walking out there and Meryl Streep's looking at me like...

  • Her face was like, what are you doing?

  • Why don't do this?

  • It's not too late.

  • You can just walk straight back and everyone will understand.

  • She doesn't know about awards.

  • But she does know that hosting in 2009 somehow buttered up all of those Academy voters in 2013.

  • So you got yourself a nomination.

  • I got myself like a nice little charity nomination.

  • So you not only...

  • You went way above breaking even.

  • Of course.

  • And they gave me the year, the Daniel Day-Lewis.

  • So everyone knows you're not winning.

  • Yes.

  • We'll give it to you.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • I do remember that morning.

  • Were you up against Daniel Day-Lewis?

  • Yeah, my publicist...

  • Oh, f***.

  • ... rang me.

  • Oh, that's...

  • Come on.

  • Good morning.

  • He goes, in case you haven't prepared a speech, what do you think about it?

  • Don't worry about it.

  • I said, really?

  • He goes, I wouldn't.

  • Don't worry about it.

  • Yeah, we're good.

  • When your publicist says that...

  • Yeah, when your publicist says, yeah, just go and enjoy yourself.

  • Take whatever...

  • Just take all the free stuff.

  • Just crush the little mini bar.

  • Whatever you're going to do.

  • Whatever pills you're going to take.

  • Just do it.

  • That's it.

  • Present a bag.

  • Take it.

  • This isn't about me.

  • Let's hear how we landed Deadpool and Wolverine.

  • Ryan, you first became a fan of Deadpool when you found a comic where Deadpool describes himself as looking like Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Sharpay.

  • Is that true?

  • That's true.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Is it really?

  • In one of the early comics, it does say that.

  • That's awesome.

  • Yeah, and that was...

  • I was like, why don't I check this out?

  • I checked it out and kind of was like, I would love to make this.

  • Can I tell you...

  • I hope it takes 10 years.

  • That's awesome.

  • I need to tell you a random story.

  • Yeah, please.

  • I was sitting next to Kate Beckinsale, who I did Van Helsing with a long time ago, at the tennis.

  • And she goes, have you ever noticed that I look like Ryan Reynolds?

  • I said, what are you talking about?

  • She goes, a bus came past and I saw myself on the side of a bus.

  • I was like, I don't even remember this movie.

  • And it took me two seconds to realize it was you.

  • Yeah.

  • So there's more.

  • You guys can check that out.

  • I've heard this before.

  • Have you?

  • I've seen someone take her face and split it right down the middle.

  • Not like with a bone saw, but like with a Photoshop, thank God.

  • It was kind of crazy.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah, we both looked like we'd just spent a little bit of time in makeup and walked out the door with it.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • Hugh was a last minute addition to X-Men in 2000.

  • Was recommended by a good friend, Russell Crowe.

  • True.

  • Went to do Grace Scott.

  • Originally cast as Wolverine, had to drop out due to an injury.

  • True.

  • I didn't know that Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry was actually the inspiration.

  • I've always found the character to be very...

  • Oh, that's why.

  • Yeah.

  • You've had a Clint Eastwood, less is more vibe to it.

  • Totally.

  • Which I don't think is going to work.

  • I used to watch him in my trailer.

  • Frankly, I don't think it's going to work, that tact.

  • You used to watch Clint in your trailer?

  • Yes.

  • And I had never in my life ever heard anyone compare me to Clint Eastwood.

  • But after that movie, I heard it nonstop.

  • I was like, maybe I watched it too many times.

  • Sorry.

  • Thanks, Clint.

  • A good man always knows his limitations.

  • Do you think Tom Hardy might make a good choice to succeed him as Wolverine?

  • I do agree, but he's Venom, and there's no takebacks there.

  • Yeah.

  • And when I saw Bronson.

  • Oh, he's so good with the mustache.

  • You know who else took on it?

  • Michael B. Jordan.

  • Yes.

  • Good, right?

  • Can you shut up?

  • Sorry.

  • I'm still playing it.

  • Disney brought him back.

  • They're going to make him do this until he's 90.

  • This is Ryan Reynolds.

  • This is Hugh Copernicus Jackman.

  • Not a lot of people know that.

  • Not a lot of people do know that.

  • Look it up.

  • On his IMDb page.

  • Which I looked at this morning.

  • I look at it every day.

  • I tell you, the ginkgo biloba is crushing it right now.

  • I mean, it is like a sponge.

  • Right?

  • I need some of that.

  • Come on.

  • Hit me with your routine.

This is Ryan Reynolds.

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