On July 27, 2014 — almost exactly 10 years ago — some test footage for a Dead Pool film leaked online. The footage immediately went viral; fans couldn’t believe it was real or that it was real and Fox still decided not to make the movie. (By the time the footage leaked, it was over a year old.) After the overwhelmingly positive response to the footage, Fox greenlit the film. It became a massive hit, and the rest is history.
So who leaked the footage?
Ryan Reynolds isn’t saying. But during one of these Vanity Fair lie detector test interviews—in which questions were fired at him by his Deadpool and Wolverine co-star Hugh Jackman — he certainly made it clear he knew who he was.
After a series of questions about Reynolds’ marriage to Blake Lively, his worst audition ever and whether he’ll ever show his family Green Lantern (he didn’t watch it, but watched the movie again, drunk, during the pandemic), Jackman got to the serious point:
“Were you behind the leak?” he asked.
“Great question. That’s a great question. Past tense,” Reynolds replied.
After some laughter, and an order to answer the lie detector administrator’s question, Reynolds added (somewhat reluctantly, and I would say cautiously): “I could have provided some assistance. I was just Scottie Pippin. I was there, doing my job. Somebody else gets all the credit.”
The man monitoring the lie detector test considered all of these statements “true.”
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When it was his turn to question Jackman, Reynolds managed to poke fun at Jackman’s 2008 Sexiest Man Alive win. He also got him to admit that Fox’s X-Men movies weren’t as good as the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but come on, that’s being honest, too.
Deadpool and Wolverine is in theaters now; over the weekend, it had the biggest opening in R-rated film history. You can watch the full lie detector interview between Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman below.
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