He may play an antihero but when it comes to real life, our man Ryan Reynolds is just straight-up hero.
The Deadpool star took to social media recently after taking a CPR refresher course, and revealed in the caption that not only is he a trained first aider, but he even saved his own nephew's life using his skills.
The post on Instagram featured a picture of a chuffed-looking Reynolds, clutching what appears to be some sort of plastic, crash-test dummy sex robot torso, and his beaming instructor, proudly cradling a big, weird plastic baby that looks like it could do with a wash (yes, I know they're actually CPR dummies. Lighten up).
Reynolds explains in the caption how important his CPR training has been and how it even helped him to save a life:
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"Years ago, I took a CPR course through the Red Cross. And holy shit, I ended up saving my nephew's life because I knew what to do! True story!
"Yesterday I took a refresher course - focusing on infant and toddler CPR. It takes only a few hours and it's also kinda, sorta fun.
"Thank you to Dan from Viva First Aid for the lesson. And thank you to these two helpful yet lifeless dolls whose vacant ocular cavities will haunt me until end times."
Impressive stuff from the Deadpool star - we'd expect nothing less.
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Fans of the foul-mouthed, bungling antihero (Deadpool, not Reynolds) won't have to wait too long for another fix, with Deadpool 2 set to hit cinemas in 2018.
Filming for the follow-up to last year's hugely successful Deadpool has just gotten underway and Reynolds even shared a snap of the first day's slate as proof.
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With the first film's director Tim Miller gone, the Deadpool team hired John Wick director David Leitch to helm the sequel.
"Everbody was just a fan of his work," said Reynolds to Entertainment Weekly.
"He's just a guy who's so muscular with his action. He also really understands those Deadpool sensibilities and where we need to take the franchise from here. And I love John Wick. One of the things that David Leitch does that very few filmmakers can do these days is they can make a movie on an ultra-tight minimal budget look like it was shot for 10-15 times what it cost."
Fans of the first film will be happy to know that the team plan to keep the sequel just as lean and mean as ever.
Credit: Marvel/20th Century Fox
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"The goal for us when we sat down and started talking about it was [that] it needs to be as provocative and startling as the first film, which means it can't just be a continuation of the first film," says producer Simon Kinberg, who also worked on X-Men: Apocalypse.
"It has to tonally and stylistically be as fresh and original.
"That's a big challenge, especially because they had 10 years to gestate on the first movie and we don't have that kind of time on the second movie. That's the biggest mandate going into on the second film: to not make it bigger. We have to resist the temptation to make it bigger in scale and scope, which is normally what you do when you have a surprise hit movie.
"It's the tone and the style and the humor that make it so special - it's not the explosions and the special effects."
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Deadpool 2 is out in 2018.
Words: Paddy Maddison