Ryan Reynolds Pulled Rank in the Most Unexpected Way on ‘Mayday’
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Ryan Reynolds Pulled Rank in the Most Unexpected Way on ‘Mayday’
Ryan Reynolds turned an unexpected production crisis into a phone call only a movie star could make. The Mayday actor contacted Budapest’s mayor after the city pulled a crucial filming location. The setback threatened a massive Soviet-era parade sequence built to resemble Moscow’s Red Square. The directors had already assembled thousands of people, period costumes, military vehicles, and a custom […]
We contacted the mayor to see if Reynolds was really trying to save the Budapest filming of his Cold War film.
Ryan Reynolds and the directors of Mayday say that the Hollywood actor personally called Gergely Karácsony when one of the film’s important scenes in Budapest was in danger. The mayor, however, claims that he did not speak to Reynolds on the phone, and that he did not discuss the permits, writes 24.hu. The story certainly has something in common, namely that the film crew eventually received the necessary […]
"This is not about making exceptions, but about a compromise made in the interests of the city," Karácsony emphasized about the filming of the film Mayday in Budapest.
The Cold War action comedy Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, was filmed in Budapest, on Heroes' Square, and one of its key scenes was shot on a grand scale: thousands of extras, period military uniforms, Soviet tanks, and a purpose-built nuclear missile carrier vehicle were involved in the filming. It is said that Ryan Reynolds himself called Gergely Karácsony about the filming. Now the mayor has revealed the truth.
Ryan Reynolds may have saved a Budapest shoot, personally calling Gergely Karácsony - However, the mayor does not remember what happened that way.
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