Ryan Reynolds has revealed that he has glad that he has had a steady rise to fame as it has allowed him to take on a whole host of different acting projects.
And the funnyman's latest two movies could be more different... he is back on the big screen this week in new movie Buried, which was a small budget movie filmed in seventeen days.
He then swaps the confines of a coffin for the big budget blockbuster as he takes on the role of Hal Jordan in Green Lantern, which is released next year.
But Reynolds admits that he loves the diversity of his roles and hopes that it is something that he can continue to do throughout the rest of his career.
Speaking to Shock Til You Drop the actor said: I've been lucky thus far. I have an ability that I've used throughout my career, I'm fortunate to have that, but most of it is dumb luck.
"I had a career that allowed me to do a number of different things early on, and because of that I never had this meteoric success early on. I wasn't a 19-year-old kid on the cover of every magazine. I was in the industry but I wasn't of the industry.
"It really allowed me to have an outside perspective and I was able to mature in a normal way like a career should. In my early 30s, where I am now, I'm afforded an opportunity to do a movie like Buried and then a movie like Green Lantern in the same year. I'm going to keep trying to do that as long as they'll let me.
Buried sees Reynolds team up with Rodrigo Cortés, who is making his first movie since Dirt Devil back in 2007.
Buried is out now.
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