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Matthew Lawrence looked back in the episode of February 21st to one of his less famous roles – and his time with Ryan Reynolds – Brotherly love podcast.

As a result, Matthew, 45, and his brothers Joey and Andrew discussed the ongoing legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. But Matthew also remembered that he once worked with Reynolds, 48.

“Ryan is amazing,” said Andy, 37, before noticing Matthew had worked on a film with him. “He was a total club at the time,” he added.

The film was BoltneckA TV horror comedy from 1998, which also played the main role step by stepChristine Lakin. Based on Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinMatthew’s character follows Frank, who is in supernatural Hijinks with Reynolds Karl.

Matthew Lawrence in ‘Boltneck’ from 1998.

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“I am like a science, strange nerd,” said Matthew. “And Ryan Reynolds is my Frankenstein.” The film itself, said Matthew, “missed the brand”, but “it was a really interesting film. Great script. ”

“The funny part is that the production team had a very difficult time with Ryan,” said Matthew. “And that’s a young Ryan.” Boltneck Was Reynold’s fifth film.

“I grew up in the industry, so I knew about the way at that time” Young meets the world Said Star. “I was dialed in. He was not elected.” Reynolds “just wanted to do his thing.” According to Matthew, the producers were “really upset” and told Reynolds that he was “bad Jim Carrey imitation” and “This is not what we have commissioned them”.

“You can’t pretend to be someone, you have to do your own thing,” recalled Matthew, and said. “And he was angry about it and said:” I do my thing. “” Matthew said he even remembered in a meeting in which the producers and the director said about Reynolds: “He doesn’t go anywhere!”

Matthew Lawrence in 2024, Ryan Reynolds in 2025.

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Matthew laughed at how wrong they were. “You never know in Hollywood, people,” he said. He added that the producers tried to make a “90s grade-off beat film”, but Reynolds may not be the right person for the job.

“I’m not even mad at Ryan in the sense that he actually stayed true to whom he is really authentic because he honestly tried Dead Pool It, ”said Matthew in relation to Reynold’s successful character and franchise.

“He obviously matured as a person, but he did the same,” said Matthew. “It has always been his tasto, his thing.”

Reynolds actually mentioned BoltneckWhat was published for video for video in a 2018 ad Deadpool 2When the character calls it “a masterpiece”. The film stream for free on Tubi.

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