US News: Ryan Reynolds has made a career out of poking fun at one of his most infamous movies, the 2011 superhero film Green Lantern. Now, the actor has a daily reminder of that box-office bomb playing on repeat in his own living room, courtesy of his biggest (and tiniest) fan.
During a candid conversation at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, the 49-year-old Deadpool star revealed that his two-year-old son, Olin, is completely obsessed with the critically panned DC Comics adaptation.
“He watches Green Lantern every single day,” Reynolds told the audience with a mix of amusement and mock exasperation. “I have to walk past the television and just not say anything. I keep walking.”
The revelation drew laughs from the crowd, but for Reynolds, the toddler’s unusual favorite movie has turned a longtime source of self-deprecating humor into an unexpected parenting win.
Green Lantern, which co-starred Reynolds alongside his now-wife Blake Lively, was released to scathing reviews and underwhelming box office returns in 2011. The film holds a dismal 26% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is widely regarded as one of the bigger superhero misfires of the past two decades. Reynolds himself has spent years jokingly disowning the project in interviews and on social media.
Yet for Olin, born in February 2023 and the youngest of the couple’s four children, the movie is appointment viewing.
Reynolds shares daughters James, 10, Inez, 9, and Betty, 5, with Lively, and he says his kids mostly see the polished, successful version of their famous dad in public. Fans approach him with praise, autographs, and admiration, rarely a glimpse of the setbacks that come with a decades-long career.
That’s why he believes it’s crucial for his children to understand failure is part of the process.
“They only see the winner version of me,” Reynolds explained. “So I think it’s really important that they understand that failure is part of the journey.”
Thanks to Olin’s daily Green Lantern marathons, Reynolds now has the perfect real-life example playing on loop at home, turning what was once considered a career low point into a valuable family lesson.
What started as a punchline has quietly become one of the sweetest ironies in Hollywood: the movie Ryan Reynolds loves to hate is the one his little boy loves the most.
