Ryan Reynolds is officially taking a break from acting.
He opened up in an interview with LinkedIn about his creative agency, Maximum Effort, and why he's taking time away from acting for the foreseeable future.
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"I don't want to miss this time with my kids," he explained. "They go to school during the day and I get to work on [ad tech company] MNTN and Maximum Effort. When I'm shooting a film, oftentimes I'm in Europe. I’m away. There are incredibly long hours. There's a constant kind of requirement to be there the whole time — not just because I'm performing, but I'm also generally producing and writing on my movies as well."
Reynolds has three daughters with his wife Blake Lively: James, 6, Inez, 5, and Betty, 2.
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"So allowing myself to step away right now, it's sort of a perfect time. Not just for my family but also for MNTN and Maximum Effort, to just kind of focus on those for a while," he said, adding that when raising young children, the time "just flies by."
He's excited to be a more present dad by taking them to school, picking them up, and spending time with them which would usually be taken up by filming overseas.