Reynolds also admitted at TIFF that he didn’t understand why the claustrophobic movie, about a man trapped in a wooden coffin, had to be filmed in Barcelona.

Ryan Reynolds reveals why he told Buried director ‘go f--- yourself’ during production

Reynolds also admitted at TIFF that he didn't understand why the claustrophobic movie, about a man trapped in a wooden coffin, had to be filmed in Barcelona.

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- Ryan Reynolds spoke at TIFF about shooting the 2010 thriller *Buried* in Spain.

- He admitted he didn't understand why the film had to shoot in Europe, since it followed a man stuck inside a box.

- Reynolds also revealed why he told director Rodrigo Cortés, 'Go f--- yourself' during production.**

It seems that the pressure of filming an entire movie while stuck inside a wooden coffin got to *Buried* star Ryan Reynolds even before cameras rolled.

During a conversation about his career at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, the 48-year-old reflected on making the 2010 thriller with director Rodrigo Cortés, which he thought had a peculiar shooting location in Europe, given that the film takes place mostly inside a box.

Reynolds explained that, after Cortés wanted him to rehearse for nearly a week, he jokingly told the filmmaker to "go f--- yourself" over the prospect.

Ryan Reynolds in 'Buried'.

"Because you can't rehearse that, you've just got to believe it. If I believe it, you'll believe it, and we go. That's what we did," Reynolds continued. "I still, to this day, don't know why we shot it in Barcelona, but we did. I was like, this could've been shot in my living room. I'm happy to host!"

Reynolds said that while "it's a great movie" that he's fond of and loved working on, "no one went to see it." While the film made a decently healthy box office return on its $2 million budget (it earned around $21 million globally), it still ranks among the lowest-grossing entries in the *Deadpool* star's filmography.

He then cited another movie, 2015's *Mississippi Grind*, as going hand in hand with *Buried* as projects that made him reconsider the trajectory of his career.

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"*Mississippi Grind* is a movie I love passionately, but did not work. The movie worked, it's an incredible movie, but people didn't go to see it, and I recognized that," he explained. "I thought, 'I have to return the investment made in me. It's show business. It's not just show. I have to produce something that these people who invest their money in can get a return."

He said that, around this period, he "started to shift gears a little bit to do work that I found fulfilling and rewarding, but could bring in audiences and grow me a little bit."

Reynolds then joked, "I had to get* Green Lantern* out of the way first," referencing the 2011 superhero flop that, elsewhere during the TIFF conversation, he cited alongside 2013's *R.I.P.D.* as "highly publicized bombs" that taught him a career lesson.

Ryan Reynolds in 'Buried'.

The career-spanning TIFF interview with Lee also segued into the actor spearheading what would become a three-film opus when he launched his blockbuster *Deadpool* film series in 2016.

At first, Reynolds said that studio executives weren't thrilled by the prospect of putting him in an R-rated comic book film, so he admitted to the long-standing rumor (which he teased in the past) that he leaked his own test footage as the character to see if audiences would respond.

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"Yes, I cheated a little, but I think I was onto something that people would be interested in," Reynolds told the crowd in Toronto, one day after world-premiering a new documentary, *John Candy: I Like Me*, which he produced. "And I'm grateful that I listened to that instinct, and I'm grateful that I did the wrong thing in that moment."**

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