Ryan Reynolds Jokes He Went on “Diet of Ketchup” for This Reason

Allow Ryan Reynolds to catch you up on his acting methods. 

The Detective Pikachu star quipped that he “prepped for months” for what he described as his “most emotional performance to date,” sharing a clip of himself singing the Pokémon theme song in the 2019 movie.

 “Sheltered myself from the outside world on a diet of ketchup alone,” Reynolds wrote on Instagram Nov. 10, alluding to Pikachu’s love for the condiment. “But it was all worth it for this moment.”

But jokes aside, the 50-year-old—who shares kids James, 11, Inez, 9, Betty, 6, and Olin, 3, with wife Blake Lively—does have a history of altering his diet in preparation for a role. 

“The diet aspect becomes a job, the working out becomes a job—and people can do that in their own life, but with prepping for a role it’s easier,” he told Fighters Only in 2019. “I think people should treat it seriously and fully invest if they want to make changes in their own lives.”