Ryan Reynolds working at a theme park sounds hilarious, right? Well, don’t be too shocked, Adventureland is a more somber type of comedy. He plays the park handyman but his affairs with the summer employees aren’t played for laughs as much as their tragic consequences. But he’ll kick ass as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, right?

CraveOnline: What's your experience with roller coasters and do you have any puking stories?

Ryan Reynolds: I have a lot of puking stories but none of them involve roller coasters unfortunately. Yes, I can throw up on command, it’s my super power. I've never been a big roller coaster guy. I mean I’ll go on them but, you know, it’s not really been my thing to have myself, my body hurled around a wooden, ancient track at a hundred miles an hour, so.

CraveOnline: Do the clowns with their mouths open freak you out?

Ryan Reynolds: Clowns with their mouths closed, clowns with no mouths, clowns in general freak me out. They're frightening creatures.

CraveOnline: Do you have a horror clown story?

Ryan Reynolds: No, I mean I was never touched inappropriately by a clown. I mean I've never, no. Steven King’s It scared the bejesus out of me.

CraveOnline: In most movies, you're very quick witted. In this one you're funny but there was a somber kind of quality to your performance.

Ryan Reynolds: Yes, it was a little more lethargic, yes. I mean, he’s a guy that's broken a little bit. He lives a fantasy world. I mean, he’s inserted himself into a position where he’s the biggest fish in the smallest pond he could find. I think he’s lived up to absolutely none of his hopes, dreams or potential. So I mean he’s in effect kind of broken, and that's what I loved about him. It’s also I think the most redeeming component to the character is that he’s this guy who’s ostensibly a lothario a**hole. He’s in the end just really a kind of broken, damaged guy that I think suffers from his villainous behavior as much as anybody else. And I think that that was the most charming thing that Greg created for these characters, is that for everybody in the movie there are no villains and no heroes really. It’s much like life, you know? People are a little bit more complex than that.

CraveOnline: How does it feel to be “and Ryan Reynolds?”

Ryan Reynolds: What's that? Oh, is that what the credit is? I'm more than happy with an “and Ryan Reynolds.” I don’t know. I don’t know what the attraction is or maybe people are not attracted to having an “and” credit. I don’t know, but I didn’t even know I was an “and” credit. When I saw the movie it had no credits at all, probably for that reason.

CraveOnline: Were you ever worried about having to take a job like Adventureland since acting doesn’t necessarily have any practical skills?

CraveOnline: No. You know, I can type. I mean, yes, I like to type and write and build things. I think, my greatest asset is that I felt like if I were to not do this for a living I would reinvent myself in some other way. I come from a long line of cops. I may have done something like that, I don’t really know. But I think as you get older there's a tendency to sort of feel like the clock is running out, in terms of being able to reinvent yourself. I'm 32 years old, in about four years it would be a little bit starting to border on absurd if I were to go back to school or something. So I think there's a bit of that but I feel like I would do this for free, what I do for a living. So it’s not so much a question of like worrying about money or anything like that.

CraveOnline: Would you prefer a role such as the one that you just did which is more tempered, more tacit, more nuanced, or the balls out, Van Wilder type?

Ryan Reynolds: Well, I haven’t really done that since probably Just Friends and that left such a great taste in my mouth because I loved doing the movie. I had so much fun shooting that movie, so I would love to do that again. But when you're out of your twenties it’s pretty hard to do that. I’d be lying if I didn’t say miss doing that kind of humor, but there's so much more available to me as I've grown up a little bit more. I have another film coming out that's I would say kind of a more of a broad romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and I loved it. I mean, you can play so much more as an adult. You have real problems. When you're a guy who has a wealthy father and you're in your eighth year of college or whatever the hell he was on, there isn’t a tremendous amount of relatability there or empathy for the character, which is kind of why I really insisted on making him a nice guy. I remember reading the script and he was a little bit coarse and a little bit mean to people and I was like, “No, no, no. You lose the audience if this guy doesn't at least care about people. At the very minimum he should care about people.” So it’s always fun to add a little bit dynamic than is on the page.

CraveOnline: The movie is called Wolverine, but are you in it for the majority of it?

Ryan Reynolds: No. I initially started out as just a cameo and they added a little bit more, but for the most part it's definitely Hugh's movie. It also has an ensemble feel, too. There's also a lot of guys in it. There are a lot of characters and they've added a bunch of mutants that the fanboys really love. But I initially jumped in there because I had to go shoot The Proposal and this other movie called Paper Man while they were shooting Wolverine. I was committed to those already when they approached me for the role. I just said, “Look, if you can make it work make it work.” Then we ended up going on and doing additional photography at the end of Wolverine because I still hadn't shot the lion’s share of what I was supposed to shoot. A lot of people thought they were adding more scenes because they added more Deadpool, but it was just a function of me finishing the movie that I wasn't able to complete yet.

Ryan Reynolds: You know, I think you will actually.

Ryan Reynolds: He walks the line of both. I think you will actually care about him. You'll be curious about him. Beyond the film, you'll be curious about him.

CraveOnline: What did you know about Deadpool going in?

Ryan Reynolds: I've always loved the character. I remember reading one of the comic books, the Deadpool comic books, and somebody asked Deadpool in the comic book what he looks like, and he said he's a cross between a Sharpay and Ryan Reynolds. That's pretty awesome. I'm like, I really want to play this guy at some point. I thought it was pretty cool but it's a guy that knows he's in a comic book. I mean, how hard is it to shoot that properly? That's not something they put in Wolverine, nor would it belong in that universe at all.

CraveOnline: So what is in the movie?

Ryan Reynolds: Well, it's an origin story so again, I don't consider myself playing Deadpool. I'm the thing that will eventually become Deadpool.

CraveOnline: Did you go after that or did they come to you?

Ryan Reynolds: That character is something that I've sort of been mentioning for a long, long time. The character in the comic book, Deadpool, even mentioned me playing him. So I think in some weird way it was a little bit destined. But I love that character. I love that franchise. I love that whole vibe so I was happy to jump in there and do it.

Ryan Reynolds: I've read them before. I read the Deadpool series back in the '90's. I'm not like a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out Archie when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

CraveOnline: What are your fight scenes like?

Ryan Reynolds: They're intense. Movies like this, you have a lot of big personalities in one room and you think, “That's going to be combustible” but it was just the opposite. I look at it as an ensemble really. There was a whole schwack of people in there with heavy, heavy storylines that they're trying to pack into this one movie. It was shockingly chummy set. Everyone was really kind of into what they were doing and because of that it was like this bonding experience, I think, to a certain degree. The action sequences are amazing. I'd never done anything on that scope before. I've done a couple of action movies but not like this. So it was pretty wild.

CraveOnline: Hugh is always really friendly to us.

Ryan Reynolds: Oh, my God, he's the nicest guy on earth. He makes murder look like ice cream. It's incredible.

CraveOnline: Have there been any new talks about a Deadpool solo movie?

Ryan Reynolds: No. These things work pretty slowly as they go. I've had a couple of people approach for meetings about a Deadpool movie, but I think it's absurd to even think that way until this movie comes out and I don't even look at it like I play Deadpool in that movie. I really think that I'm more or less playing Wade Wilson, obviously and then I'm playing the creature that will eventually become Deadpool. But in this movie it's sort of his newly formed version.

CraveOnline: Did those action sequences take days and days to film?

Ryan Reynolds: Well, I have a sword sequence in the movie that is probably less than a minute long in the film but that takes months and months to prepare for. When you think about it, like that it's vaguely depressing, but when you actually do it, it's worth it, when you see on the screen that it's me and it's not a stunt person and I'm doing my thing. So, yeah, they're slow. We had action sequences that took weeks. We had one fight sequence that took weeks.

CraveOnline: When you were back playing a horny guy hanging out in the movie Dick with Kirsten Dunst, did you ever envision that your career would change itself and escalate the way it has after all these years?

Ryan Reynolds: I don't know. There's that period in your life where you're just trying to get by and I think that was that period for me and no, I had no idea. I always thought I’d be fine because I started in improv, I could always do that. I could stay with that. I could be in Vancouver doing that, but no, I didn't imagine when I was pounding a beer bong and making out with Kirsten Dunst in a political satire that I would be standing here with you all today.