It sounds like Ryan Reynolds has a perfectly reasonable fear of forklifts after his time working at a Vancouver Safeway.
The Vancouver native and Deadpool actor was on Hot Ones with Hugh Jackman and was asked a very focused question by host Sean Evans.
"What was the worst accident or hairiest situation you found yourself in as a forklift driver at the Safeway at 25th and Oak in Vancouver?" Evans says in the video.
Once Reynolds gets over the specificity of the question (though he did list the job on his LInkedIn), he notes forklifts are not the safest tool.
"I crushed my ankle a couple of times on those forklifts," Reynolds says. "'Cause there are the ones that you drive then you also have the ones that you walk with but they're motorized."
"Walking ones are the scary ones; those will f--k you up."
While he doesn't share a specific story, he does go into some detail on scary situations.
"You back it up and you realize you're standing right next to an industrial refrigerator," Reynolds explains. "It just jams you right into it and you're like 'Oh, this is how they'll find me.'"
His spell at Safeway is the only time he talks about Vancouver in the episode of the show that features a one-on-one interview conducted while eating progressively hotter chicken wings.
Reynolds and Jackman share other stories and insights into the movie business in the 25-minute interview, like what it's like putting on a superhero costume, dealing with leaks about films before they come out and how time and money can be bad for a film.
At the same time, Reynolds and Jackman clearly, and hilariously, struggle with the hot wings, tearing up, confessing to cheating on Wordle, and sweating profusely by the end. The pair star in Deadpool and Wolverine, which is released in theatres this weekend (and appears to include at least one shot of Vancouver).
