Ryan Reynolds says he and his nine-year-old daughter James watched his upcoming film Deadpool & Wolverine, which is rated R.

The Vancouver, Canada native, 47, spoke Monday with The New York Times about his forthcoming film, and how he screened a copy for both his eldest daughter and mother Tammy Reynolds.

‘Well, I’m not saying that other people should do this, but my nine-year-old watched the movie with me and my mom, who’s in her late 70s, and it was just was one of the best moments of this whole experience for me,’ the A-list actor told the newspaper.

Reynolds said he was encouraged by the reaction he received amid the multi-generational audience for the motion picture, in which he shares top billing with friend Hugh Jackman, 55.

‘Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be,’ he said.

Ryan Reynolds, 47, says he and his nine-year-old daughter James watched his upcoming film Deadpool & Wolverine, which is rated R. Pictured Friday in London promoting the movie

The Vancouver, Canada native said he screened a copy for both his eldest daughter and mother Tammy Reynolds. Pictured last year in Wales

The Golden Globe-nominated actor shares four children with wife Blake Lively, 36 – daughters James, nine, Inez, seven, and Betty, four, and a fourth child who was born in February of 2023.

He told the newspaper that he wasn’t tentative to show his eldest child the R-rated film, as he watched many at that age and felt they helped provide an influence that would serve him later in his life.

‘When I saw rated-R movies when I was a kid, they left a huge impression on me because I didn’t feel like people were pulling punches,’ Reynolds said, ‘and it’s been a huge inspiration to so many of the things that I look to make now.’

In the interview, Reynolds also explained the massive impact the Deadpool character has had on his career.

‘I was an actor who was semi-well-known,’ Reynolds said. ‘I don’t know how you would phrase that without sounding like a dink.

‘But I was 37 when Deadpool had its pop-culture phenomenon moment, and I’m really grateful I was, because I knew exactly how to enjoy it.’

Reynolds last month told People that Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy shared a piece of critical advice with him in terms of parenting.

‘Shawn Levy actually told me something that stuck with me forever, that people tend to only talk about their wins,’ Reynolds said. ‘But I think it’s really important for your kids in particular to know that you lose. You don’t get what you want all the time.

Reynolds shares top billing with friend Hugh Jackman , 55, in the forthcoming film

The actors were pictured promoting the film earlier this month in Seoul, South Korea

‘Something you worked on really hard didn’t work. You feel like you said something embarrassing today, you did something that didn’t sit right with you. It’s just so important that [your kids] see that and they don’t just hear, “Oh Dad nailed it.” Because you lose so much more than you win.

Reynolds said that the lesson has ‘really stuck with’ him over the years.

Deadpool & Wolverine, which also stars Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Matthew Macfadyen and Jennifer Garner, is slated to debut nationwide July 26.