Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Ryan Called OUT !!

00:00:00.000 I mean, this is so embarrassing.

00:00:07.320 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tenshny Flore, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:12.040 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Oh my gosh, you won't believe what

00:00:20.140 just happened. Remember that article in the Hollywood Reporter? I spoke about it a couple

00:00:24.960 of days ago, where the two directors of Mayday, the movie that Ryan Reynolds is promoting at the

00:00:31.300 moment, came out and said that Ryan Reynolds saved one of the major and most important scenes of the

00:00:39.200 movie because he personally called the mayor of Budapest to make it happen. Guess what? He didn't.

00:00:48.500 now the mayor of budapest has come out and put the record straight this is the funniest story

00:00:55.760 i've seen in a very long time in the meantime ryan is pretending that he still has fans on instagram

00:01:03.220 by posting old videos of people cheering him on i mean you can't make this stuff up i also want to

00:01:12.900 address something that I said in yesterday's episode about Tom Hanks. I reported on this

00:01:20.840 feud between Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks and I said that Tom Hanks is a nice guy. A lot of you

00:01:28.400 guys don't agree with me so I started looking into things a bit closer and it turns out Tom Hanks

00:01:35.060 is not such a mr nice guy after all okay let's get into it this story made me laugh so hard

00:01:44.300 kudos to hopeful tater tots on reddit who found this story get ready okay remember i think it's

00:01:55.320 two days ago now i spoke about this article in the hollywood reporter that said mayday directors

00:02:01.920 reveal how a call from Ryan Reynolds to the mayor of Budapest rescued a key scene. So these two guys

00:02:10.640 are interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter saying that everyone picks up the phone when Ryan Reynolds

00:02:17.740 called and then luckily the Hollywood Reporter also got hold of Ryan Reynolds for this story

00:02:22.740 and he also commented on this and he said one of the obscene, luxurious and disgusting side effects

00:02:30.300 of fame is that you can get people on the phone that you otherwise couldn't. I can take advantage

00:02:36.180 of that as long as I'm fighting for the side of good. Yeah, that in itself is quite ironic. But

00:02:42.760 anyways, someone in Hungary actually read this article and the newspaper there, Telex, thought,

00:02:52.080 hey, let's find out what really happened here. Let's get in touch with the mayor and ask him

00:02:57.880 what really went down and it turns out that Karasoni the mayor had a very different memory

00:03:05.560 from what happened here so they published this story so this is translated from Hungarian keep

00:03:13.740 that in mind it says uh Ryan Reynolds allegedly personally called Karasoni about a shoot in

00:03:23.060 Budapest. The mayor remembers it differently. And it says here that Ryan Reynolds personally called

00:03:31.640 the mayor in 2024 to save their film shoot in Budapest. At least that's what the two directors

00:03:38.240 of the Cold War action comedy Mayday, which debuted on Apple TV on September 4th,

00:03:44.700 John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein, claim to The Hollywood Reporter. And they're saying here

00:03:52.320 that the production was made with a huge apparatus, with the directors saying that there were a

00:03:58.480 thousand extras, about a thousand crew members, a thousand period accurate military forms,

00:04:04.740 about a dozen Soviet tanks, and a nuclear missile carrier vehicle built specifically for this

00:04:12.040 purpose. I found it a little weird to begin with that they had all of this ready, and then according

00:04:18.600 to the directors here they said that something happened so then they couldn't shoot at in

00:04:25.680 budapest after all and considering how much this scene would cost if this is all true that they

00:04:32.660 have thousands of extras and thousands of uniforms and all these tanks and everything just ready to

00:04:37.900 go and then they hadn't cleared where they were actually going to shoot this scene really i found

00:04:44.140 that a little suspicious and it says here that according to the directors they were informed

00:04:49.060 before filming that budapest would not allow them to use the space and that's when ryan reynolds

00:04:55.520 intervened and according to the directors he personally called karasani and after the

00:05:02.260 conversation filming filming could continue when we need him he is like a multi-ton elephant anyone

00:05:10.120 can answer the phone for him, Goldstein told the newspaper about Reynolds. And then the newspaper

00:05:16.440 said that they sent questions to Karazhani about this matter, asking whether Ryan actually had

00:05:23.940 called him. And they say here, based on the mayor's response to Telex, the newspaper here,

00:05:30.440 the events did not happen exactly, as the film's director recalled. According to Karazhani,

00:05:37.760 it was not the movie stars, but the film's production company that was in contact with Budapest.

00:05:45.900 And after several consultations, they reached a compromise on how the filming could take place

00:05:52.060 in a way that would not excessively affect the life of the city with such a large-scale

00:05:57.800 super production. He emphasized that he was not the one who conducted the negotiations

00:06:04.020 with the film stars so it seems like ryan reynolds production company maximum effort got in touch

00:06:13.980 with the city of budapest you know there's a lot of movie productions going on in hungary it's one

00:06:20.540 of the biggest locations for movies in europe so the fact that they were shooting there is nothing

00:06:25.940 special at all and in hungary they're used to dealing with this all the time so it seems like

00:06:32.480 Maximum Effort got in touch with the city and they negotiated a deal so they could shoot at

00:06:37.280 the square. And that's really what happened. And according to this article, the mayor did not

00:06:42.420 confirm the conflicts around Hero Square, which is the name of the square in Budapest. According

00:06:48.560 to Carrizoni, this could be a misunderstanding since Hero Square is a state land. So it was

00:06:55.040 probably a matter of reserving land for Addressi Avenue. And he said it's not about making

00:07:01.580 exceptions but about compromise made in the interest of the city because it is a because

00:07:06.960 it's good for the city to appear in such a film but it's not good if it causes too much uproar

00:07:12.560 he said in his response so they were basically having a conversation about the shoot on this

00:07:20.380 square and they came to some compromises of how this could be done according to ryan it was a big

00:07:27.120 conflicts there and they said you can't shoot a hair anymore and then ryan picks up the phone is

00:07:31.960 like hi it's ryan reynolds let me speak to the mayor and the mayor's office was like ryan reynolds

00:07:38.360 is calling no one hangs up on ryan reynolds hey mayor it's ryan reynolds on the phone to you and

00:07:43.760 the mayor was like hi ryan of course you can shoot here because you are ryan reynolds well

00:07:50.140 turns out the mayor doesn't even know who ryan reynolds is it's his it says here that corazoni

00:07:58.100 remember meeting reynolds on the set we actually met the actors he said on set and had a nice chat

00:08:05.040 about budapest and then he also said in quotes it is true that i'm primarily familiar with the

00:08:12.160 of Kenneth Branagh and I'm a great admirer of his Shakespeare adaptations. No mention of Ryan

00:08:21.160 Reynolds whatsoever. He obviously had no idea who Ryan Reynolds is and the newspaper said also that

00:08:28.060 we reached out to the film's Budapest producer Gergo Balika, head of one of the largest domestic

00:08:34.660 producers, Mid-Atlantic film, who did not comment on what was written in the Hollywood Reporter.

00:08:42.160 This English is a little weird, but they're saying that he didn't want to comment.

00:08:46.960 The producer, the Hungarian producer here of the movie,

00:08:50.580 did not want to comment on the article in The Hollywood Reporter.

00:08:54.240 I mean, this is so embarrassing.

00:08:59.360 Because, of course, Ryan Reynolds told these directors

00:09:02.540 that he called personally the mayor in Budapest and got them to do this favor.

00:09:08.420 Because he's such a beloved and famous celebrity. 0.94

00:09:11.300 and the directors believed him and now they're the ones looking like fools here because they

00:09:18.300 told a story that obviously it was not true i mean this is so embarrassing and talking about

00:09:25.860 embarrassing how embarrassing is this ryan reynolds added this to his story yesterday

00:09:32.200 it looks like he's in front of fans or he is in front of a lot of people uh there are applauding

00:09:39.420 him and he's like hey yeah I'm here I'm a superstar I'm Ryan Reynolds and everyone's like yeah

00:09:44.220 Ryan Reynolds and then I was like I remember that shirt from somewhere else and it turns out he was

00:09:50.840 wearing that shirt a year ago when he was in Toronto at the Toronto Film Festival when he was

00:09:57.500 promoting his documentary John Candy I Like Me so this is not a recent fan encounter this was

00:10:08.880 before people had actually seen ryan reynolds text messages remember we all got to learn his

00:10:16.120 true colors back in january when the judge decided to unseal all his text messages and emails at this

00:10:24.360 point people still didn't really know who ryan reynolds is but now we do and for some reason

00:10:30.780 ryan wants us to believe that people are still crazy about him and i have to also mention one

00:10:37.160 thing this is from the toronto this is from toronto film festival this was just before he was

00:10:41.860 doing one of the series is there called a conversation with and it was a conversation

00:10:47.080 with ryan reynolds he was up on the stage being interviewed and when you're at the toronto film

00:10:52.260 festival i've been there so many times there are so many people in the streets all the time

00:10:57.840 everyone's just waiting for celebrities to show up a lot of them wants autographs and then they're

00:11:03.340 selling the autographs so it's not like people showed up at this event just because it was Ryan

00:11:09.280 Reynolds people show up everywhere as long as there's someone famous there and of course he

00:11:14.680 didn't even put any context around this saying where it was or when it was he's just like hey

00:11:21.180 look at me I am so popular anyways talking about Ryan Reynolds career someone posted this on

00:11:28.120 reddit and i went into his imdb as well and it looks like a lot of ryan reynolds projects are

00:11:37.400 just hanging around i haven't gotten any confirmation from any studios or anything about

00:11:43.600 this but i found this post interesting and i have to say this is alleged of course but when you look

00:11:50.280 at each one of them on IMDb most of them have only one actor attached or all of them basically

00:11:59.940 except one who has Samuel L. Jackson attached but the other ones are only Ryan Reynolds and some

00:12:06.100 writers and one of them of course is also Ryan Reynolds but there's nothing else going on

00:12:10.920 they're presented here as being in pre-production meaning that you know whatever you put on IMDb

00:12:18.940 you could just say it's in pre-production we haven't really started it yet or we're talking

00:12:23.460 about starting it but nothing has happened to these pro to these projects for a really long

00:12:28.720 time and of course animal friends you might remember i spoke about that recently it's been

00:12:34.900 postponed is it five times and now it's been pushed to 2027 and then there is one movie here

00:12:41.340 called eloise which is in post-production so he might have that coming out but apart from that

00:12:48.840 it looks pretty bad. Anyways, let's get into another guy here who is also not so nice, it turns

00:12:58.140 out. Tom Hanks. So yesterday I spoke about the feud between Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks and

00:13:04.780 Henry Winkler just came out in a new interview and said that Tom Hanks had fired him about 30

00:13:12.620 years ago and it really upset him and it really looked like he's still holding a grudge against

00:13:20.220 Tom Hanks and when I reported on this I also said that I love Henry Winkler I had such an amazing

00:13:26.140 experience interviewing him I never really interviewed I never sat down to interview Tom

00:13:31.440 Hanks I just met him in industry settings so I don't know much about him like personally and when

00:13:37.980 I was looking at the comment section yesterday, I noticed a lot of you said that Tom Hanks is not

00:13:43.420 a nice guy. So I decided to look into a little bit more of other people who said that they don't like

00:13:50.340 Tom Hanks or how he has hurt or harmed other people who has worked with him. And the first

00:13:57.000 story that came up was this one about Conor Ratliff. He said that Tom Hanks removed him

00:14:03.720 from the movie Band of Brothers

00:14:06.500 immediately before they started filming this movie.

00:14:10.420 And the reason was because Tom Hanks reportedly said

00:14:14.420 that he had dead eyes.

00:14:17.660 And Ratliff was so hurt by this, obviously.

00:14:21.160 Who wants to hear that you have dead eyes?

00:14:23.160 That is not a nice thing to hear about yourself

00:14:25.900 or your eyes or whatever.

00:14:27.340 And Ratliff was so upset about this

00:14:29.980 that he actually created an entire investigative podcast with the name Dead Eyes.

00:14:37.500 And then 22 years since this happened, since Tom Hanks said that he had dead eyes,

00:14:44.720 he came onto his podcast and apologized to him.

00:14:49.460 Good thing that he apologized, but he could have done it a little sooner, you know, 22 years later.

00:14:56.160 Tom Hanks also said he couldn't even remember the incident.

00:14:59.040 And I think when you say that you don't even remember when you did something so cruel to someone, that's pretty bad.

00:15:05.980 Because then that's just a normal thing for you to say that someone has dead eye and just fire them.

00:15:11.700 Then in 2023, Tom Hanks did an interview where he actually admitted that he's been behaving badly on sets sometimes.

00:15:19.960 He released a novel and he actually admitted that he personally displayed the kind of difficult star behavior described in his own novel.

00:15:30.580 Where he said he was losing patience, taking out frustration on other people and creating tension when production wasn't going well.

00:15:39.600 So the Rolling Stone did an article about this saying Mr. Nice Guy question mark.

00:15:46.900 Tom Hanks, famous nice guy, isn't always so nice.

00:15:51.440 And then they say the actor copped to occasionally behaving badly on set

00:15:55.380 while discussing the obnoxious, disruptive fictional actor in his new novel.

00:16:02.440 So I guess that this fictional character had some of his own traits, obviously.

00:16:08.960 Then there was his son, Chet Hanks, who was an addict,

00:16:13.260 who came out and talked about how his parents Tom and Rita had him taken from his bed when he was

00:16:22.520 17 years old and sent to a harsh Utah wilderness program. So Chet described that he was being

00:16:29.160 transported by two large men and said the program was deliberately brutal. He said in an interview

00:16:36.080 according to page six in 2022 that he felt that his parents were being manipulated the whole time

00:16:43.240 because the camp was earning money by the day

00:16:45.980 and used his wealthy parents as whales

00:16:48.520 because they had the resources to keep him there

00:16:51.520 for a long effing time.

00:16:54.060 I read a lot of stories about these wilderness programs

00:16:56.860 that are supposed to get people clean

00:16:59.760 and there's a lot of controversies around these camps.

00:17:04.520 And I can't comment on how you should treat your child

00:17:07.080 when they are struggling with addiction

00:17:09.060 because I don't know what that's like

00:17:11.340 and i don't know what method works apparently he is still clean which is great but he was not

00:17:18.100 holding back when it came to criticizing his own parents about this there are also some stories

00:17:25.820 circulating about tom hanks and his relation to mr e i can't even say his name here on youtube

00:17:34.580 anymore he that he was connected to these e-files that we saw parts of and most of it is still

00:17:41.960 hidden and I have no idea where the truth lays when it comes to that that is a lot of speculation

00:17:46.500 so I'm going to stay away from that but it's worth mentioning because a lot of people also

00:17:51.620 mentioned that in my comment section one of the things that stood out for me about Tom Hanks was

00:17:57.220 the way he reacted to Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes I mean I love Ricky Gervais I love his sense

00:18:03.200 of humor and I love the way he's been mocking celebrities always on that stage I mean he was

00:18:09.660 hosting it five or six times I think it was and people tuned in just to watch him roast Hollywood

00:18:16.820 and so he did and the jokes were really extreme sometimes and Tom Hanks did not find them funny

00:18:24.820 you all look lovely all dolled up you came here in your limos I came here in a limo tonight and

00:18:30.320 the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman. So, no, shush. There's nothing we can do about

00:18:39.340 that. The Hollywood foreign press are all very, very racist. So, fifth time. So, 0.62

00:18:48.740 it's already three hours long. And I think that proves that he takes himself a bit too seriously.

00:18:55.620 And that is never a good combination with being very wealthy and very famous.

00:19:01.860 But anyways, his other son, though, remember him from last year,

00:19:06.400 was sitting next to Ryan Reynolds in all the interviews about the documentary about John Candy.

00:19:12.820 Yes, so his son was directing that movie and Ryan Reynolds was producing it.

00:19:18.800 And apparently they worked great together.

00:19:20.900 anyways i want to end this episode with an amazing article in homes and garden

00:19:26.240 can you believe that they're doing this again i spoke about homes and gardens two days ago

00:19:33.200 this article that they did about blake lively and ryan reynolds bathroom based on a reel that

00:19:39.980 blake lively posted about five months ago when she was doing her hair in her bathroom and you

00:19:46.080 saw parts of what looked like a bathroom behind her and they did a big story about it and two

00:19:51.640 days later they did another big story about Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Halloween decorations

00:19:58.100 it's not even close to Halloween yet and they're saying this time and this time they're saying

00:20:04.720 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds understated Halloween porch is a study in unstaged charm

00:20:13.040 it redefines cozy curb appeal have you ever seen a more seo manipulated headline than this

00:20:23.480 it redefines cozy curb appeal like they continued in their upstate new york home blake and ryan

00:20:31.420 turned simple florals into the ultimate unstaged seasonal entrance anyways i'm not going to read

00:20:39.820 more from that article obviously but isn't it fascinating that Homes and Gardens are doing two

00:20:45.060 articles on Blake and Ryan in one week and because they already reported and wrote about their

00:20:50.680 bathroom they had to read about their Halloween porch one and a half months before Halloween

00:20:58.300 and by the way that story about their bathroom was so amazing that another outlet picked it up

00:21:07.220 the coolest they also thought that that is so newsworthy so they did this story Blake Lively's

00:21:14.500 bathroom could have looked like any other luxury bathroom instead she did this the darker tile is

00:21:21.980 what keeps all that warmth from becoming too sweet there is another clever decision in the room

00:21:27.580 the warmth isn't allowed to take over completely I mean that's just part of what they wrote in that

00:21:33.540 article i mean what's happening to the media this is just so embarrassing yes a lot of embarrassing

00:21:42.740 stuff in this episode i should probably have put a cringe warning in the beginning of this episode

00:21:48.140 anyways thank you so much for watching i hope everyone will have a beautiful weekend and thanks

00:21:54.360 again to my executive producer oscar poor little oscar was attacked on our morning walk this morning

00:22:01.300 by this mean little dog who run over and started biting him.

00:22:06.960 It was really scary.

00:22:08.000 I had to scoop him up and this dog was just like jumping on me.

00:22:12.420 Luckily, he was tiny and the owner was just not taking any responsibility at all.

00:22:17.120 He had him on the leash, but then he dropped the leash

00:22:20.200 and the dog actually got a big chunk of his fur.

00:22:24.320 I could see it in his mouth.

00:22:25.700 But luckily, he was okay afterwards, although he was very shaky.

00:22:29.740 oh little oscar thank you yes you're the best anyways if you haven't subscribed yet please do

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - September 12, 2026

Ryan Called OUT !!

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