• Ryan Reynolds spoke about the future of Deadpool.
• He explained that producing the Marvel action comedy “swallowed up” his “whole life.”
• He added that he doesn’t want to miss out on spending time with his four children, whom he shares with Blake Lively.

Ryan Reynolds feels his father’s guilt.

On today’s episode of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Andrew Garfield, the actor discussed balancing work and parenthood.

When Garfield asked Reynolds what the future holds for Deadpool, Reynolds said he didn’t know. “I feel like this character works very well in two ways: one is scarcity and two is surprise.”

“Deadpool & Wolverine” was released in July, six years after “Deadpool 2.” “Deadpool” was first released in 2016.

One of the reasons for the six-year hiatus after “Deadpool 2” is that it “consumes his whole life,” said Reynolds, who played the title character and was a producer and writer on the series.

“From development to post-production to marketing and advertising, you can’t take your hand off the wheel,” he said.

Reynolds has four children whom he shares with Blake Lively.

“I don’t ever want to be on first-name terms with any of them. No, I never want to be absent and I never want to miss anything,” he said. “I kind of die inside when I see their face and they have a competition or sports theme or something and I missed that.”

In August, Lively expressed a similar opinion about work-life balance.

“When you’re working, sometimes you feel guilty because you’re not involved in your personal life during the hours you’re working,” Lively told Entertainment Tonight. “And then when you’re at work, you feel guilty because you’re distracted and wish you were with your personal life,” she said.

In February, the “It Ends With Us” actress said that she and Reynolds agreed “not to work at the same time” when they met.

Balancing work and family is “like a circus performance without a break,” health experts previously told Business Insider.

Veronica West, psychologist and founder of My Thriving Mind, said that she thinks it’s better to think of work and personal time as a “work-life rhythm,” rather than work and personal time divided into “neat, equal chunks.” to divide. ”

“The trick is learning how to balance energy, not just time, so that you survive and enjoy every part of the day,” she said.

A representative for Reynolds did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.