Ryan Reynolds recalls hellish experience on Korean Masked Singer
Spirited star Ryan Reynolds admits his 2018 performance on South Korea's King Of Masked Singer was "horrible"
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Is Ryan Reynolds responsible for unleashing The Masked Singer on the U.S.? One could make a case, given that the first time many Americans ever heard of the South Korean reality competition series (titled King Of Masked Singer) was when he popped up singing a song from the hit musical Annie to promote Deadpool 2 in 2018. Nowadays, they let just about anybody sing behind a mask; back then, Reynolds was breaking ground for Americans everywhere.
“I’ve been doing this job a long time, and when you go on these international tours, you start to say, ‘What’s the weirdest show we can do?’” the actor, lovable scamp that he is, recalled during a new interview with TODAY. “And at the time, this was before The Masked Singer was in the U.S. So they said, ‘They have this show called The Masked Singer, which is huge in South Korea.’ I said, ‘Lord, we’re doing this show. We have to go do that show.’ And at that time, no Westerner had been on that show before, so it was a big surprise when I lost the mask.”
Unfortunately for Reynolds (who is back on the promotional tour for his Christmas musical, Spirited), weirder is not always better. “What’s crazy is, I was in actual hell,” he admits. “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 even know this song, I don’t know how to do–’ Yeah, it was traumatic.”
Back when Reynolds revealed himself as the Unicorn in 2018, he joked that he was “wearing an adult diaper” to deal with the nerves of his appearance. “This was such a thrill, this was an unbelievable honor for me,” he told the crowd. “You guys pushed me to my own limits, and I thank you for that.” Apparently, he’s still feeling the effects all these years later.
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Its kind of funny to see just how simple his costume is compared to the crazy shit they did in the US show.
It is. The US version is more Mascot Singer. The Koreans use an actual mask.
That’s because according to the American version’s history, the inspiration for it actually came in 2017 from the Thai version of the show that had launched the year before, and did indeed use the kind of more lavish and elaborate costumes that the American version uses as well. As an example, here’s the season two winner. If anything, the bigger differences in the American version come from format changes, not the costumes.
He was not really in the competition, just a one-off Deadpool promo appearance otherwise he would have had a better costume. Black Crow Mask from Thailand’s version is still my favorite.
Doesn’t he know how to flip the bird properly?
you know two fingers up (middle and index) is the way you flip someone off in England?
He’s not even doing that very well.
Pretty sure he’s fingering your mom and your sister.
Nah he’s doing an Irishman.PINCH the sky; “Very respect.”
Going to have to look that one up.
“Reynolds was breaking ground for Americans everywhere.”tell me you didn’t just write that
Remember, any successful Canadian is actually American, because who wouldn’t want to be American?
Technically he is a North American.I don’t think Carr was making that distinction, but maybe.
And, technically, I think he has dual citizenship now. But at the time of the competition, he was still Canada’s pride and joy (after apologizing to the country for the Green Lantern).
“Is Ryan Reynolds responsible for unleashing The Masked Singer on the U.S.?”
No.The American series was in development before Ryan di the show. Sorry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masked_Singer_(American_TV_series)#Production
The leap from two guys and a pizza place to globally loved superstar is one of life’s pleasures
Hey, you forgot the “a girl” part of the title!
When he said he didn’t know the song, I thought that meant he was singing in Korean, but then it was just the English version of the song. He did an admirable job at it, but surely it wouldn’t take more than a few hours of practice to put together a passable version of Tomorrow, especially for a seasoned performer.
And this is why you choose a song that you use to sing your kids to sleep. Write this down, AMATEUR HOUR!!!
I’ve never watched one second of the US one but have seen some passing articles about it and the people on it always seem meh…has there been any bigger celebrities than Ryan Reynolds on that one?
I’ve only seen bits and pieces but they have had a surprising and bizarre array of pretty big names buried among the “who?”s. A bunch of soul/RnB legends, Kermit the Frog, Mikey Rourke, Giuliani… not all that many movie stars now I think about it though?
I mean that’s a list of celebrities desparate to stay in the limelight and a fictional character though. Not really the same as a movie star in his prime doing it.
Gladys Knight was phenomenal on the American one!!! I like the covers because everyone breaks from the traditional songs you associate with them