“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances” – Sanford Meisner. Point is, there’s a new Detective Pikachu trailer tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/g9dRTOJHL1

— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) February 25, 2019

Reynolds goes on to explain how he immersed himself completely in play the Pokémon detective, reading about him, living at his height and even trying to lose 182 pounds to match his weight, until doctors intervened. “The point is my daughters, they may never see their dad again but you can be damned sure that they’re going to be looking up at that screen this summer and they’re going to see Detective Pikachu,” he says triumphantly. To which Lively laughs, “They’re not going.”

The movie, directed by Rob Letterman (Goosebumps), takes place in Ryme City, a city where humans and Pokémon live side by side, and focuses on a young man’s (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘s Justice Smith) search for his cop father.

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