Ryan Reynolds “Becoming Pikachu”

Serious acting is damned, Ryan Reynolds parodies everything we love about immersive character actors in the new featurette.

To be fair, Ryan Reynolds has never been known as a serious classically trained actor to begin with. Best known for his self-aware snark as Deadpool, Reynold’s originally rose to fame as in the National Lampoon college romp Van Wilder in the early 2000s.

He’s since rose to a surprising level of stardom - mostly coincided with Deadpool’s massive popularity - and has landed the dream role of a lifetime - Pikachu, in the upcoming Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu.

In a sardonic anecdote of every Daniel Day-Lewis performance ever, as well as a tongue-in-cheek sendup on every Meisner technique classical actor who immerses themselves into their role, we get Reynolds delivering gems like this…