Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one dialed up for you this week.

With the man of the moment in Hollywood, he is Ryan Reynolds.

His film, Deadpool and Wolverine, recently became this single

highest-grossing R-rated film in the history of Hollywood. No R-rated movie ever made has made more

money than did Deadpool and Wolverine, which co-stars his real-life buddy, Hugh Jackman. If you don't know the story about Deadpool, Ryan, of course, has had a great career before Deadpool,

lots of romantic comedies and other films.

But he really wanted to make this movie about a comic book character that he knew called

Deadpool, that had kind of a cult following, couldn't get a studio to get behind it,

and ultimately had some,

well, let's say, test footage, animated test footage made a couple of minutes of what the

movie might look like. Mysteriously, as you'll hear us discuss in a second, that footage

found its way onto the internet, and fans went crazy demanding a standalone Deadpool movie. They got it. The first one in

2016 became a hit, two more since, and now this record smashing edition this summer in

Deadpool and Wolverine. You know, Ryan, I'm not going to get big wind up on who he is. A great guy.

A guy I've known for just over a decade, and we bonded because

both of our fathers have Parkinson's disease. We're both on the board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation,

and he's given so much of his time and his fame and his platform to helping the cause, to

trying to find a cure along with the great Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's disease. So we talk a bit about a new campaign he's working on to raise some awareness about Parkinson's.

We talk about our dads.

We talk about our mutual friend Michael J. Fox.

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