Ryan Reynolds Opens Up About Finding Privacy For His Family

With four new films under his belt and the role of Deadpool confirmed and new baby James to keep him busy, the one thing Ryan Reynolds might have trouble finding in the coming months is a little privacy.

During a junket for his new film, “Woman In Gold”;, he opened up about the struggle to balance his public life with the privacy needed to function as a normal person.

“Privacy, that word, is always a little off putting for me because it sort of suggests that there’s some sort of shunning or shutting out or some entitlement,”; Reynolds says. “I just think that by virtue of the fact that when you put yourself in the public eye you have to accept certain aspects of it and some of them are that there sometimes isn’t any privacy and that’s okay ’cause I signed up for this but I think to some degree if you don’t court it, you don’t have to deal with it so much.”;

The 38-year-old actor has taken a recent departure from the comedies he’s known for, starring in a handful of off-beat films.

His latest film, “Woman In Gold”; marks the 38-year-old actor’s departure from comedies he’s known for. Based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Holocaust survivor who fought the Austrian government to reclaim M Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting of her aunt, which was confiscated by the Nazi’s in World War II, Reynolds plays E. Randol Schoenberg, a lawyer who helps Altmann take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled in her favour in 2004.

“If you think about Maria Altmann, who moved to the United States to escape the war and the Holocaust and lost so many of her friends and family, had one of their most cherished prize possessions ripped off the wall, stolen and then for five decades hung in The Belvedere Museum. I can’t imagine what that must be like to think the painting that was on our wall, stolen by the Nazis is just sitting in that museum and I have no right to take it…”; he says.

Adding, “I can’t imagine her frustration, that must be intense. So to service that story and that mission and this woman’s seeking justice was something that was very important to me too.”;

Reynolds says taking on a role like this one, or playing off-beat serial killer Jerry in “The Voices”; is a part of maturing as an actor.

“I think as you get older and you get more comfortable with the idea that you’re in this community of actors and directors and Hollywood, however you look at…you stop picking projects you think you should do and then you start thinking about things you want to do.”;

You can catch Ryan Reynolds on the big screen in “Woman In Gold”; – also starring Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes and Charles Dance in theatres April 1. Watch more with the actor below.