Ryan Reynolds on Channing Tatum Partying with Wrexham Players & John Candy Documentary

Our first guest tonight is not from Brooklyn, he is Canadian and he is beloved wherever he goes. He is the producer of a new documentary about another beloved Canadian, John Candy, I Like Me, premieres on Prime Video October 10th. Please welcome Ryan Reynolds. Is this your first time at BAM? Ah, yes it is. Oh, well, welcome to BAM. Not my first time in Brooklyn, of course, but first time in BAM. Ryan, this is, you should make this permanent. This is great. It is great, it would be fun. Yeah. I feel like the level of enthusiasm would wane, though, the longer I was here. I don't know, these guys seem like they're in for the long haul. Have you spent much time here in Brooklyn? We do, you know, my wife and I always kind of wish we, like, lived here, because we come here for Halloween every year. We do. Oh, it's amazing. No, it's amazing, you walk around, it's so idyllic, and then they hand out, like, the good s**t, right? Like, you get, like, the Coffee Crisp and Smarties, the stuff you don't get in America. Wait a minute, we get Smarties in America, we hate Smarties in America. No, it's not that, no, lobbyists taught you to hate those Smarties. No, those are terrible, they're made of, like, ayahuasca or something. The American ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're not eating candy. They're, like, a little clear plastic, and they're like little Tums, but they don't taste as good as Tums. Well, you're talking about the American ones. The British ones are made from rich Cadbury's milk chocolate by the little fingers of Northern English children in those little sweatshops, and they're incredible. And then the American ones, yeah, you're not eating Smarties, you're on a journey, you know, riding Bob Barker through the apocalypse by, like, your fourth Smarties. So do you go and snatch those candies from your home, from your children? Is that how it works? Oh, my God, yes. And I film myself, like, I'll tell you now, and then in the morning I'm like, I don't know where they went, but I have this video. Oh, wait, those were the American Smarties. You know, some would say that it is inappropriate to go trick-or-treating in a neighborhood in which you don't live. Yes, it is, it's a form of grifting, isn't it? Yes, it is. I think, I'm not even wearing a costume half the time, I just go with, like, a dumb clown nose. Oh, do you? Yeah, yeah. And I phone it in so badly. People get upset. I would think so, yeah, right. But I'm like, I'm dressed up 364 f***ing days a year, man. It's my day off, this is your day to shine. I thought actors loved to go in a costume, no matter what the situation, no? No, I would suck at those, like, old Shakespearean, where you're, like, having the white, you know, get all the cakey white powder on your face, it'd be terrible. Have you thought about moving here, so that you can trick-or-treat in peace? I'm gonna live on this stage, Jimmy. Yeah. I feel real at home here. It's really, no, I've definitely thought, I think, like, Matt Damon bought most of Brooklyn in the early 90s, and then he's just been parsing it out to hedge funders. When people talk about gentrification, and how opposed they are to it, they should know that the person behind Mr. Gentrification, if you will... Is Matt Damon. Yes, it is, it is indeed, it is. I wonder if Matt is behind some of this mishegosh with the network. That seems, it reeks of Matt, if you tell me. I, I, right? I don't know. Well, he hasn't been supportive, that's for sure. I'll say. You, I've heard that you've expanded your, what is becoming a sports empire, to the sea. Yeah, SailGP, we're doing, Hugh Jackman and I are doing Sail, Team Australia, SailGP, Slingsby's the greatest in the whole world, they're captain of that ship. What does that mean, SailGP? SailGP, look, I wanted to be involved with SailGP for, oh my God, not long at all. But Hugh thought it would be fun to be a part of, to own part ownership of Team Australia, and I think it was to put a dent in some of his gambling debts. Oh, is he a gambler? Oh, he's got a real ******* problem. Oh, really? Oh God, everything. I didn't know that. Yeah, and it's not even like sexy, it's the slots. Oh. He just like sits there with like a menthol cigarette and he's just yanking that sucker and it's just pure sadness. Oh, wow. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so we're gonna pay some of that off. Does Hugh know how to sail? I think he's afraid of water. So, I don't know. We're gonna really put that to the test. I also am not sure he's from Australia. I mean, I get the accent and everything, but it could be Denver. A lot of people do do the Australian accent. It could be. It'll be to that, yeah, just, and then it slides right out. Suddenly you're like, wait, no, that's Colorado. Is Hugh, he seems to me he'd be like a vomiter, yeah? From drugs? Oh, no, no. I mean, maybe, I don't know, maybe. Yeah, I know. But on the high seas, yeah. Oh, yeah. He seems like he'd have, like, not just the little wristbands that get rid of the emotions, but, like, the headband version. He'd have, like, an IV drip of, like, lorazepam and Gravol, like a super pack. He'll call it a vitamin D super pack, but we know what it is. Do you, are you, are people now contacting you from all sorts of various sports asking you to buy a team in their league? I have nothing, like, crazy. Yeah, there's a curling, I got a curling one. You do? Yeah, but I don't have one. I'm just, I was approached about it. I see, I see. But the national game of Canada is actually lacrosse, believe it or not. Oh, so you're thinking about that? Like, yeah, but you think, no. No! I don't want anything. Well, you've got sailing. What could be worse than that? Hugh's the captain, I'm just the First Lady. Okay, all right. You know, I'll follow his lead. He's very broad. I'll just get behind him and watch him, you know. Your team, Wrexham, the football club over in Wales, you have a game tomorrow, right? Yeah, we have a game tomorrow. You watch all the games? I watch every single one of them. You have people driving you crazy for tickets and stuff as if they couldn't just go buy them if they wanted them? I do, yeah. I've had some, well, every week there's like a, you know, a list of, also as they were saying backstage, they were like, Ryan, you give your phone number to everyone. Do you? I do, it's a problem. Well, you trick or treat with a clown nose on, what do you expect? I know, right? I know, not very, a little thick up there. Yeah, no, I get a lot of that stuff. You know, we've had like friends that I work with, too. Will Ferrell came out there. I loved it because he just slides right in where the massage therapist is working on one of the players, and Will just brings the hands right in, and the guy sort of like looks up and he's like, like just absolutely loses his mind. What's in the vapor rub, Doc? And then Channing Tatum came out and nearly killed the whole team. Yeah, tell us about that. What happened with Channing Tatum? He came out to shoot a Super Bowl ad for Stoke called Brew Coffee, which is a sponsor of the club. And, you know, he was going to do the Super Bowl ad, where he does this insane dance thing. I mean, the guy's like actually superhuman. I mean, genuinely, I can't even believe that he can do these things. But after the rehearsal, he was like, I'm going to take some of the boys out. We're going to just, you know. I was like, what do you mean the boys? Like the team. The team's going out. And he was like, yeah. And then they go out. And then it's just like radio silence. I'm going to read it. This is a real, I'm not making any, this is a real text I get from him at 4, 4.30 in the morning or so. Oops. I might have had too much fun with the boys. And then a long pause. I'm sorry. I said, please don't break any of them. And he said, definitely didn't break any of them. We were very vigilant about injuries. Like what? Like what were you doing? You're vigilant about injuries. And then he just wrote, but. 25 minutes later. We definitely got way more loose than I was ever planning to. It happened. And I'm sorry. It's definitely going to be on the internet. And sent a picture. I got, no, he didn't send a picture. I got some pictures. I got two pictures. There he is. He turned everybody into Magic Mike. He turned the whole team into Magic Mike. I mean, those boys were in their hotel rooms, tucked away, lost in prayer. And he came in individually, room by room, and snatched them into the Welsh nightlife. He channinged all over their tatums. He did. Just sprayed it everywhere. If you look closely at that picture, you'll notice at least two women going. Oh, yeah. If you look even closer, you'll see that I'm nude in the background wearing, well, nothing but black executive socks. I'm the co-chairman. I have to maintain. That'd be a nice Halloween costume for you this year, you know? Actually, that's not a bad idea. When we come back, we're going to talk about your new documentary, which I saw and I loved, about the great John Candy. Thank you. Ryan Reynolds is here with us. He'll be right back. He was very funny, because he would get physical. John, John! He'd go and just grab you. Oh! He would, you know, embrace and, you know, and he could toss you around like a doll, I swear. He could grab your bicep and pinch it and press your flesh all the way to the bone. That is Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd talking about the great John Candy in the great new documentary, John Candy, I Like Me. You are a producer on this film. Yes, sir. It was directed by Colin Hanks. Colin Hanks, yeah. And, man, that eulogy that Dan Aykroyd gave at John Candy's funeral was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. He's a beautiful writer, Dan Aykroyd. He is. He's incredible, and he's, you know, there's a couple people in the doc that really, you know, it's not too inside baseball, but really got me. One was certainly Dan in that eulogy. Catherine O'Hara's eulogy is just one of the most beautiful things as well. But Conan mentioned something, and we talked about it during the break, which is that he said, it's really hard to be a people pleaser in Hollywood and have, you know, when you're a people pleaser, you never want to center yourself, right? So John, you know, would never want to burden anyone with his issues, but mental health is an issue that you actually have to center yourself. So these two are antithetical to one another, and ultimately, you know, it was just at the beginning of that era where we destigmatized these things and talk about them. You know, and I just love that Conan really zeroed in on that. Conan has a great story about meeting John Candy when he was in college and how kind John Candy was, and John Candy even took photos of Conan. Yeah, he was kind, like, when nobody was watching. He was a good person when nobody was watching, and that's, like, I think, really relevant and something that's pretty scarce these days, and especially in this curated kind of digital world we live in. Like, John was just a beautiful, beautiful man, and it was even funny. Some of the interviews were really hard to get. Bill Murray, oh, my God, that was hard. How'd you get Bill to do it? Well, like, you get a, you know, he used to only communicate by fax machine. Right. So you're like, well, no one has that, so what is he using now? You're thinking, is it Morse code? Is it, like, some kind of, I don't know, like, bewitched thing where he wiggles his nose? But it turns out he has a cellular telephone. And I managed to get this number from a friend of a friend of a friend, and the voicemail was a Greek shipping company. I just kept leaving messages, and then he finally, you know, he finally called me back and, you know, quizzed me on who was the godfather of the spit take. What? Yeah, that was his first thing. What do you mean he quizzed you on who was the godfather? He said, who's the godfather of the spit take? I was like, that's a weird way to start. And I said Desi Arnaz. He just went, wrong, Danny Thomas. I was like, well, hey, I don't know. Desi also was around that era, did it first. Danny perfected it. So you had an argument about something nonsensical with Bill to start off your relationship. Exactly, but we met in the middle because Canada invented basketball. You guys perfected it. So in this instance, Desi's Canada, Danny Thomas is America. And then Dan Aykroyd, impossible to track down. Two months it took me to find Dan Aykroyd. And a little piece of trivia, by the way, distant cousin. My aunt Vera Aykroyd was no help because she was dead. And she's been dead for like 25 years. So she's been no help on this particular issue. Have you known that Dan Aykroyd was your cousin since you were a kid? Yeah. And was that just so exciting to you? It was crazy. It was crazy to me because I would study him as a kid. I would watch Ghostbusters on one of my dad's many bootlegged VHS tapes. I would rewind it, I would press play, and I would try to do the lines as quickly as he did in the movies. My dad had every movie, just he stole them all. And then there was one movie that was drywall, plain and simple. And one day my brothers and I were like, oh that's not drywall, come on. And we put that sucker in and wow, we grew up fast. It was a hell of an education. Yeah, Dan Aykroyd, finally I get a hold of him and he calls and he goes, hey kid, I'll tell you what. You come up here, you have dinner with me, you spend the night, and the next morning we do the interview and you get the f*** out. Done. Like, done. And did that happen? Yeah. You stayed over? I went over, I spent the night. I mean his place was incredible. I woke up in the middle of the night because I was sleeping in a new bed, it was a strange thing, it only happens every other night for me. And I whacked my arm on something and it was like bleeding. And I turned my flashlight on and he has this giant mahogany like growling werewolf's head is part of the bed. And I woke up with my pupils blown out, dilated with fear, and then attempted to do this interview with him but he just guided us right back to beauty. He was just amazing. He's really unbelievable. And Steve Martin speaks so beautifully about John Candy in this. That was Bill's problem too, he's like, you can't do a documentary on John Candy because he's unimpeachable, he's never done anything wrong. And then Bill goes, except one thing. And you're like, save that please. Yeah, it wasn't that bad either. It wasn't really even bad at all. John Candy was, and we're doing a show this October 8th at the King's Theater here in Brooklyn. Oh great. We pulled a permit from Matt Damon, so we're good to go. Hugh Jackman is going to be my guest. Oh is he? Who knows? Oh the famous sailor. Yeah, the famous, yeah. And you will screen the movie? The Pirate. Talk about the movie afterwards? We will screen the movie, and then we will come out, there will be other special surprise guests, and we'll chat a little bit about the movie. Oh, it would be fun if you showed Drywall also, I think that would be nice. I actually have it on my phone right now, after the break we'll check it out. Ryan Reynolds everybody, his documentary is called John Candy, I Like Me, premieres on Prime Video October 10th, thanks Ryan, we'll be back with Josh Shaw.