“Green Lantern” helped Ryan Reynolds overcome a fear: he told how he did it

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively met on the set of “Green Lantern” and went from being very good friends to being one of the most loved couples in Hollywood.

However, that wasn’t the only positive experience the ‘Just Friends’ actor had in his superhero debut.

Ryan Reynolds Overcame a Fear Thanks to ‘Green Lantern’

It was 2011 when the Canadian donned the green superhero costume. As expected, he faced some typical challenges of these productions: acting in front of a green screen, wearing a costume that captured his movements, doing action scenes and even flying, somehow.

This last one was one of the most complicated since, in real life, Ryan Reynolds was afraid of flying.

He revealed this in an interview on the Today program in June 2011:

But he wasn’t just afraid of planes. Two years later, in an interview with Jimmy Fallon (in statements collected by Cheat Sheet) he commented that a skydiving incident affected him as well.

As he recounted in 2013, he started taking skydiving lessons to get his extreme sport license but, on one occasion, his parachute didn’t work.

This situation, without a doubt, put him in danger, since:

Finding himself in the air and having completely lost control, he had no choice but to pull the rope to open the emergency parachute.

Thus he managed to save his life, although he was left with a great fear of such adventures.

As Ryan Reynolds commented on “Today,” his experience on “Green Lantern” brought him back up against that fear:

On what helped him overcome this fear, the Canadian actor expressed:

Of course, he also admitted that “after you do it (throw) 17 or 19 times, you start thinking, ‘You know what? This is kind of fun.”