In a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter published this week, Reynolds said the idea of returning to Canada “hasn’t even crossed” the minds of him or his wife, Blake Lively.
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Vancouver-born actor Ryan Reynolds won’t be moving home to Vancouver when U.S. president-elect Donald Trump takes over the Oval Office in January.
“I love New York, and I love where I live,” Reynolds said in the interview.
But that doesn’t mean the Deadpool star doesn’t also hold a lot of love for his hometown.
“Thankfully my wife is obsessed with Vancouver and the food scene in Vancouver. I’m obsessed with the childhood that I was given and how privileged that I was to grow up in a place like Vancouver, which I think has imbued tenets that I have taken and carried with me throughout my entire career,” Reynolds said. “ … It has really given me the tools to process and deal with a lot of the things maybe some of my peers maybe have slightly more maladaptive coping mechanisms to deal with.”
Some of those ‘tools’ are undoubtedly being passed on to the couple’s four kids. In The Hollywood Reporter interview, Reynolds noted the two Hollywood stars try to give their three daughters and one son “as normal a life as possible” albeit with a few luxuries they didn’t enjoy growing up themselves.
“When I was a kid, you would just suck it up, get out of the house and be back by sundown, which I just can’t even imagine now,” he said.
Here are a few quick facts about Reynolds’ years in Vancouver.
Where did Ryan Reynolds grow up?
Born in 1976, Reynolds grew up in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver.
Which high school in Vancouver did Ryan Reynolds go to?
The Golden Globe-nominated actor attended Kitsilano Secondary School. He graduated from the school in 1994. Reynolds isn’t the only famous alum of the local secondary school. Dr. Death actor Joshua Jackson, Olympic gold-medal rower Kathleen Heddle and Canadian film editor Julian Clarke are among the notable past students.