Ryan Reynolds Says His Youngsters Cannot Cease Watching the Trailer for His New Film ‘IF’

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Full of life‘s youngsters had not seen their dad’s newest film IF earlier than the movie’s premiere on Monday, Could 13, however they did watch the trailer and have been hooked.

“They’ve seen the trailer, they usually do not cease watching the trailer,” Reynolds, 47, tells PEOPLE on the pink carpet on the SVA Theater in New York Metropolis.

Reynolds and Full of life’s youngsters watched the trailer a lot that it grew to become “a bit of difficult” within the morning, Reynolds says. He must remind them, “We will college proper now. We’re not watching the trailer. We will college,” he says.

The kids “love the trailers” for IF and have been “excited” to lastly see the movie, the actor says.

“They love the trailers, after which they watch all these little thirty-second spots that you may YouTube. They’re fairly obsessive about it,” Reynolds tells PEOPLE.

Reynolds additionally jokes that they “worship” their dad’s costar, Cailey Fleming, his best choice to babysit them among the many IF solid.

Full of life, 36, and Reynolds are mother and father to daughters Ines, 7½, James, 9, and Betty, 4½. Additionally they welcomed a fourth little one, whose title has not been publicly revealed, in February 2023.

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IF writer-director John Krasinski was joined by spouse Emily Blunt and their costars Reynolds, Steve Carell, Maya Rudolph, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Awkwafina, Amy Schumer, Bobby Moynihan, Christopher Meloni, Fleming and extra on the pink carpet Monday.

IF is a couple of woman (performed by Fleming) who has superpowers that give her the flexibility to “see everybody’s imaginary associates” and makes use of her present to “reconnect forgotten IFs with their youngsters,” in keeping with a synopsis.

The film’s first trailer opened with Reynolds tiptoeing throughout a child’s bed room towards a closet door because the phrases, “What if the whole lot you believed as a child was actual?” flashed throughout the display screen.

The closet opened to disclose a big, furry, purple imaginary good friend (voiced by Carell) who stepped out and says hello earlier than unleashing an enormous sneeze.

She went on to ask, “What is going on?” prompting Carell’s character to clarify, “I’m an IF, get it? Imaginary good friend.”

IF successfully reunites Carell and Krasinski, who starred collectively on the hit NBC sitcom The Workplace from 2005 till Carell’s exit in 2011.

Whereas showing on the At the moment present Monday, Reynolds chatted about whether or not his youngsters with spouse Full of life (who additionally voices a personality in IF) have imaginary associates of their very own.

“My daughter Betty, she has a really vivid creativeness, so there’s at all times someone standing behind me and I flip round shortly like a horror film and I notice no, it’s simply Harvey from the previous film Harvey. It’s a 6-foot-5 rabbit,” mentioned the daddy of 4.

“At the very least it’s not Deadpool. That may be … that’s NSFK. Not protected for youths,” teased co-host Savannah Guthrie.

“No, I ruined them with that as a result of I’ve the unique swimsuit … like a mould of my physique downstairs within the basement,” mentioned Reynolds as Guthrie joked she was “beginning to perceive these points you’re speaking about.”

“Yeah, precisely. And it was simply form of silhouetted one evening and one among my youngsters went down there, screamed bloody homicide,” Reynolds recalled. “I ran down there as a result of I forgot it was down there and I screamed bloody homicide. So yeah, no, all people’s fairly properly broken.” 

IF is in theaters Friday, Could 17.