Ryan Reynolds said he gave up his pay and paid from his pocket to ensure that his screenwriters could be on set for the first “Deadpool” movie. 

The actor opened up about the humble beginnings of his R-rated superhero franchise before the release of “Deadpool and Wolverine,” recalling to The New York Times how they spent several years trying to get the original movie made but, because it was not a typical big-budget comic book movie, it took a while before it finally took off at 20th Century Fox.

“No part of me was thinking when ‘Deadpool’ was finally greenlit that this would be a success,” he said. “I even let go of getting paid to do the movie just to put it back on the screen: They wouldn’t allow my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room.”

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