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Ryan Reynolds is a superhero in his son Olin's eyes — literally as one of the actor's iconic films is the 2 year old's "favorite" movie.
The Deadpool & Wolverine star was a guest at the TIME100 Summit in New York on Wednesday (April 23) where he shared the sweet new detail about his youngest child with wife Blake Lively, when TIME correspondent Eliana Dockterman brought up their 2011 superhero film Green Lantern, per People. He acknowledged that it isn't "the most successful movie" he has starred in, but it has had a major impact on his son.
"It's my son's favorite movie, he's 2," he said. "It's just everyday, you're like, 'Oh I need to heal this, I see.'"
While Green Lantern may not have been a box office hit, it did help bring Reynolds and Lively together as they starred opposite each other as love interests. They met and became friends on set in 2010 and ended up connecting romantically a year later when they were both single and on a double date with other parties. The couple went on to get married in 2012 and welcome four children together: Olin and daughters James, 10, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5.
Aside from his future family, Reynolds also gained a new perspective on filmmaking and creativity from his time working on Green Lantern.
"I realized I was internalizing these ideas, but I couldn't have told you at the time, this is what it is," he said. "But too much money, too much time, wrecks creativity. It just murders it. And constraint is the greatest creative tool you could possible have."
The Proposal actor added, "So on that film, I saw a lot of money being spend [when you] add special effects and all sorts of stuff. And I remember suggesting, we could write a scene in the movie where people talk... there could be a fun exchange of dialogue. It doesn't cost anything. And they would say, 'Just spectacle. Spectacle.' So anyway, character over spectacle was the lesson that I took with me, in retrospect. I look back now, it's what really shapes my point of view."