Ryan Reynolds' incredible act of generosity revealed

Ryan Reynolds is a household name and perhaps one of his biggest movie roles to date is his starring role as the super-antihero Deadpool .

The 47-year-old spent 10 years trying to get the film into production and even relinquished his salary to ensure it hit the big screens.

Not only that but with the little money he had left, Ryan made sure his co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick received a paycheck.

"No part of me was thinking when Deadpool was finally greenlit that this would be a success," Ryan told the New York Times .

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"I even let go of getting paid to do the movie just to put it back on the screen," he added.

"They wouldn't allow my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room."

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While it was tough for Ryan to see his vision come to light, he admitted that the experiences he learned were invaluable.

"I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money," he explained.

"It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie. I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it, and I hadn't felt like that in a long, long time."

Ryan added: "I remembered wanting to feel that more—not just on Deadpool but on anything."

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Ryan didn't stop his confessions there. During the interview, he also revealed that he has allowed his nine-year-old daughter, James, to watch the latest installment of the R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine.

"Well, I'm not saying that other people should do this, but my nine-year-old watched the movie with me and my mom, who’s in her late 70s," he admitted.

"It was just one of the best moments of this whole experience for me. Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be."

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The Vancouver-born film star explained his reasons for allowing his eldest to watch a movie that many would deem inappropriate for a child of her age.

"When I saw rated-R movies when I was a kid, they left a huge impression on me because I didn't feel like people were pulling punches," he said.

"It's been a huge inspiration to so many of the things that I look to make now."

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Alongside James, Ryan shares three other children with his wife of 12 years, Blake Lively: Inez, seven, Betty, four, and their youngest, one, whose name has never been made public.

Meanwhile, Ryan stars in the third Deadpool movie alongside Hugh Jackman , who has reprised his role of Wolverine – much to Ryan's delight.

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“I’ve waited forever to do a movie with this guy," Ryan gushed.

"And I think he's waited a long time to do something like this with me.

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"So there are scenes where it's pretty hard to distinguish between Wade Wilson talking to Logan and Ryan talking to Hugh.

"I love that, I get goose bumps even just talking about it."