Ryan Reynoldsis unmasking his thoughts on doingThe Masked Singer.
While visitingtheTodayshowon Monday to promote his new holiday movieSpirited, the actor, 46, looked back onhis 2018 experience filming South Korea’s iteration of the hit television series, saying that his time on the show was less than ideal.
“When I was there, I was like, ‘Why did I sign up to do this? This is horrible! This is truly horrible! I don’t know this song, I don’t know how to do this ' " he recalled of his May 2018 visit to the reality singing competition. “It was traumatic.”
“What’s crazy is I was in actual hell,” he said.
Reynolds showed up onKing of Masked Singer, as it’s known in South Korea, during his overseas press tour to promoteDeadpool 2. He was disguised in a unicorn mask and sparkly cape, andsang a rendition of “Tomorrow” fromAnnie.
His appearance quickly became a viral hit online, making headlines in America months before FOX debutedThe Masked Singerin January 2019.
“I’ve been doing this job a long time, and you go on these international tours, and you start saying, ‘What’s the weirdest show we can go on?’ " he remembered. “And at the time, this was beforeThe Masked Singer was in the U.S. So they said, ‘They have this show calledThe Masked Singer, which is huge in South Korea.’ I said, ‘We’re doing this show. We have to do that show.’
“At the time, no westerner had been on that show before, so it was a big surprise when I lost the mask,” Reynolds added.
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A surprise, it was. Watching the clip back, both the audience and judges go completely wild when Reynolds removes his mask and walks into the spotlight.
“Hello, everybody. I’m so sorry about that song,” Reynolds said after his performance, later admitting that he was “absolutely” nervous to perform in front of the crowd and television cameras.
“I was wearing an adult diaper!” he teased, before then telling the crowd that he “didn’t even tell my wife, [Blake Lively],” about going on the show.
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“This was 7 weeks of rehearsal,” costarWill Ferrellsaid onTodayof the preparation he, Reynolds and costar Octavia Spencer did on the film. “Basically we were thrown into theater camp. Dancing, singing, voice work — the whole thing. It really started with us all staring at each other going, ‘Are we ever going to be able to get to the end of this?’ And low and behold, we somehow did.”
source: people.com
