Ryan Reynolds is one of the most casually hilarious, genuine and pretty much awesome people on the planet today.
He recently starred in Deadpool, which he'd been trying to get off the ground for 11 years. At the Critics' Choice Awards, he managed to bag the award for Best Actor in a Comedy for the role and he also took home the Entertainer of the Year accolade.
It was the speech for the latter that really got people talking. As it's Ryan Reynolds, you'd assume the whole thing would be a piss-take. Instead, Ryan decided to make the speech that Deadpool himself probably would have made.
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As you can see from the video, it starts off like every other speech: "Wow, uh, my god. Okay, I gotta start off by thanking the whole Deadpool team, without whom I would not be standing up here..."
Yeah, fair enough.
But then he carried on by saying: "Deadpool was an 11-year odyssey for me to get up here and it resonated with a lot of people. The character had cancer and some of the people that this character resonated with was sick kids.
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"So, I would like to dedicate this honour to the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Sick Kids Foundation of Toronto, two incredible organisations that do so much for so many kids in need. And I'd also like to dedicate this award to the memory of my friends, Conor McGrath and Grace Bowen. They didn't lose the battle - they started a fight. And it's up to us to finish it."
It wouldn't be a Ryan Reynolds speech without a sprinkling of humour, though, would it?
He ended the speech by thanking Emma Watts who 'had the foresight to see that children all over the world needed a sex-positive superhero who enjoyed running around in a big red body condom in the midst of a highly militarised shame spiral'.
We love you, Ryan.
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Featured Image Credit:Topics: Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds, Cancer