Ryan Reynolds is cool. I speak from experience. I'd tell you more, but Saulbadguy gets his panties in a bunch when I talk about my Los Angeles days. I figure if Scarlatt can't be riding my pony, at least she can ride the pony of a dude I geuninely liked.
Tell us more.
It was in 2001, when I did that fellowship stint at Disney Studios. There were 9 of us fellows, and they wanted us to sit in on a table read, rehearsal, and final taping of an ABC comedy for educational purposes. For some damn reason, they sent us to Two Guys and a Girl, which was just a popcorn fart in a hailstorm away from being canceled.
Anyway, we sat in and listened to the table read, and they introduced us to the cast. Then we came back for the rehearsl, and the nine of us were sitting where the live audience sits, and Ryan was the one who said, "Come on down on the set."
Watching the rehearsal of this poor little dommed comedy, it was pretty obvious that Ryan was a star in the making. Good-looking guy, great presence on the stage and screen, charming ... kind of like Obama. And as we walked through each part of the set (those comedy sets are divided up into subdivison for each location), Ryan was the one who kept talking to us lowly wannabes, pointing out stuff on the set, joking with us, cutting up to keep everything loose. He wasn't a major star yet--heck, none of them were--but he was the only one who was cool.
The rest of the cast ... well, they tried to act like we weren't even there. Kind of snooty, considering that that show was their only claim to fame at that point. Let me rattle off the rest of the majors in that show--Traylor Howard, Richard Ruccolo, Nathan Fillion, Susan Cryer, Jillian Bach ... anyone ring a bell? And here they were, going all celeb on us. I will say, Jillian Bach--the gal who played the crazy chick on the show who Ryan Reynold's character ends up with--was sexy as hell in person. On TV, she's simply cute, but in person ... Day-um.
And this pick doesn't do her justice:
