{"id":91059,"date":"2026-05-05T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/ryan-reynolds-colin-hanks-on-their-documentary-john-candy-i-like-me\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:38:15","slug":"ryan-reynolds-colin-hanks-on-their-documentary-john-candy-i-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/ryan-reynolds-colin-hanks-on-their-documentary-john-candy-i-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds &#038; Colin Hanks On Their Documentary \u2018John Candy: I Like Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-1\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC4404062410\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOver the course of his incredible career, comedian and actor John Candy gained countless fans around the world. Among them was a young kid growing up in Vancouver named Ryan Reynolds. The future star of the\u00a0<em>Deadpool<\/em>\u00a0movies first took notice of fellow Canadian Candy on\u00a0<em>SCTV<\/em>, the sketch comedy show that would launch some of comedy\u2019s greatest talents including Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Dave Thomas and Catherine O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDecades after Candy\u2019s untimely passing, Reynolds explores what made the performer special not only as an actor but as a human being in the Emmy-contending documentary\u00a0<em>John Candy: I Like Me<\/em>. The film, streaming on Prime Video, is produced by Reynolds and directed and produced by Colin Hanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the new episode of Deadline\u2019s Doc Talk podcast, Reynolds and Hanks stop by our studios to discuss the documentary, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in Candy\u2019s hometown. Reynolds tells us about the formative experiences in Candy\u2019s life \u2013 including losing his father on the very day John was celebrating his 5th\u00a0birthday. He observes how that tragic experience would lead Candy down a path of becoming a people pleaser \u2013 part of the secret of what made him so lovable to audiences and to his friends, but also a burden that would weigh on him later in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHanks shares memories of meeting Candy on the set of\u00a0<em>Splash<\/em>, the Ron Howard-directed film that helped kick off the movie careers of Candy and of Colin\u2019s father, Tom Hanks. (Colin reveals why his dad felt nervous about the prospect of working with Candy on\u00a0<em>Splash<\/em>). The director also explores \u201cthe hardest part of the story to crack\u201d as he set about constructing the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHanks and Reynolds also reveal how they got Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd to take part in the film, along with so many who knew and loved Candy (Reynolds does a terrific impression of Aykroyd). We also discuss how Candy delivered one of his most famous lines of dialogue on screen \u2013 words evoked in the subtitle to the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat\u2019s on the new episode of Doc Talk hosted by John Ridley (<em>12 Years a Slave<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Shirley<\/em>) and Matt Carey, Deadline\u2019s senior documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley\u2019s N\u014d Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tListen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including\u00a0<u>Spotify<\/u>,\u00a0<u>iHeart<\/u>\u00a0and\u00a0<u>Apple<\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of his incredible career, comedian and actor John Candy gained countless fans around the world. Among them was a young kid growing up in Vancouver named Ryan Reynolds. The future star of the\u00a0Deadpool\u00a0movies first took notice of fellow Canadian Candy on\u00a0SCTV, the sketch comedy show that would launch some of comedy\u2019s greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doc-Talk-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}