Who is Ryan Reynolds? For much of the 2000s, even Reynolds appeared to be figuring that out. The actor got his big break starring as the sarcastic but charming slacker Michael “Berg” Bergen on the ABC sitcom Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, which ended abruptly in 2001. Reynolds leaned into raunchy comedy with Van Wilder (2002) and Waiting… (2005). There was also a string of successful romantic comedies with Just Friends (2005), Definitely, Maybe (2008), and The Proposal (2009). He even dabbled in more gruesome fare with The Amityville Horror (2005) and Buried (2010). Yet we also saw him experiment with being an action hero through supporting roles in Blade: Trinity (2004) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), where he relied heavily on the wisecracking persona that had already become his trademark.