VAN WILDER PARTY LIAISON Q&A with RYAN REYNOLDS Movie Interview by Kris Griffiths © 2005 PHASE9 ENTERTAINMENT

PHASE9 catches up with Ryan Reynolds, the star of VAN WILDER: PARTY LIAISON, in London’s Soho Square. After passionately snogging an elderly woman in the film, can you tell us a bit more about your relationships with older women? Yes, well I’ve explored the older female species in this film and this particular one had removable teeth and a darting tongue from what I can remember of the whole experience. On a more serious note, it was probably a lot more difficult for her. I said to her, “you’re obviously a lot more mature than me so just guide me”, and she did. She was a lovely lady though. It wasn’t very comfortable for anyone involved in the scene but we ended up doing about thirty-five takes and a lot of it was eventually cut out. From the out-takes during the end credits it looked like loads more had been cut from the movie and I suppose that’s the toughest thing about making comedy - to keep it funny when there’s been thirty takes and the director makes you do another one… I was fortunate enough to make a start in proper comedy in Canada. After four or five takes a part of me wants to do it differently every other time but thankfully the director Walt Becker is gracious enough to just let me play with it and see what happens so it’s a lot more fun. I’ve also worked with Walt before in a romantic comedy that was released domestically in The States so that made things a lot easier. Did you have a Van Wilder character at your school - the one that everyone looked up to as the coolest? Err, no. Growing up in Vancouver [Canada] and going to school there, we never really had that type of set-up, even at the universities. I had to glean most of my experience just from shooting at the UCLA campus and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Parents had spent so much money sending their kids there and these kids were just waking up every morning in shower pools of their own fluid and a beer bottle wrapped round their neck. I realised that we were just making a documentary. So no, I have no experience of the Van Wilder character. Continued on page 2

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