At 45, Ryan Reynolds already has a great career behind him, movie star X-Men and in particular of Dead Pool, the masked mercenary in the red jumpsuit who made him famous. He is the incarnation of the nice actor, the good living good friend who regularly makes jokes on his Instagram account.
On Tuesday, one of his publications allowed him to collect hundreds of thousands of “likes” by telling how he had lost a bet against his best friend, actor Rob McEhlenney. In 2021, the two bought Welsh football club Wrexham FC and Ryan Reynolds bet his best friend couldn’t learn to speak Welsh. However, it took him several months but McEhlenney learned and Reynolds had to bow. It is a priori without interest, except that the pledge of the lost bet was to go for a colonoscopy, a medical examination consisting of filming in the large intestine to detect possible cancerous tumors.
I made a bet. I lost. But it still paid off. @LeadFromBehind @RMcElhenney @DrLaPook @NYULangone @RMcElhenney pic.twitter.com/UJiwRY0QoS
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) September 13, 2022
The two friends thought it was funny, wacky and clearly schoolboy. Ryan Reynolds, a good loser, therefore made an appointment for a colonoscopy, he filmed his arrival in a New York hospital, his meeting with the doctor, his own jokes also like “thank you for putting gin in my infusion“, or “maybe we’ll find Rosebud !”, in reference to the film by Orson Wells. In short, Reynolds plays down, he is 45 years old and is doing very well. Then comes the moment of the result, once the examination is finished. And on the control screen, the doctor shows him a polyp, well attached to the wall of his intestine, but it is these small growths that turn into a cancerous tumor.
“ObviouslyI removed itsaid the doctor with a smile, we have just halted its progression into a possible cancerous tumor. You see, screening, that’s what it’s for, it saves lives…” So everything changed.
And Ryan Reynolds decided to make his video a prevention clip, funny and useful, informative without being creepy, probably the most important film of his life but the most important of the life of his friend Rob McElhenney, who he too had this medical examination and had three polyps removed. Both broadcast this short six-minute film on their Instagram and Twitter accounts to encourage their subscribers over 45 to do this screening, like them.