--- title: Ryan Reynolds and Stephen Colbert Ask Life’s Big Questions description: Ryan Reynolds stops by The Late Show and admits that the Green Lantern just might have dumb superpowers canonical: https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-22T20:12:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:07.132Z og:title: Ryan Reynolds Is So Happy to Make Fun of Green Lantern og:description: Reynolds admits that the Green Lantern might have "a really dumb superpower" og:url: https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ba8830adcdcaf1a/6988bf772dce01e0779ecbba/stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Reynolds Is So Happy to Make Fun of Green Lantern twitter:description: Reynolds admits that the Green Lantern might have "a really dumb superpower" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ba8830adcdcaf1a/6988bf772dce01e0779ecbba/stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Ryan Reynolds Make Fun of Himself About _Green Lantern_ With Stephen Colbert by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 22, 2017 8:12 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 22, 2017 8:12 PM UTC Ryan Reynolds knows plenty of people didn’t love his 2011 movie [_Green Lantern_](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/770677993/)—and he just might agree. [Reynolds](http://time.com/4634365/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-oscar-video/?iid=sr-link3) stopped by _The Late Show_ on Tuesday night to ponder some of life’s biggest questions with Stephen Colbert for the segment known as “Big Questions with Even Bigger Stars”. They pondered the nature of the universe, what cats dream about (“Defenseless humans that taste like tuna,” quipped Colbert), and the meaning of _Life_ (that’s [Reynolds’s](http://time.com/4556212/ryan-reynolds-conan-obrien-made-out-notebook/?iid=sr-link8) new movie, not life itself), Eventually things turned to the most important questions, like what super powers they would like to have. Colbert was quick to answer, “I’d like to have a super-cool alien high-tech ring and it’s green and it has a lantern on it and I can use my imagination to make anything out of green light.” “Wow. That’s a really dumb superpower,” said [Reynolds](http://time.com/4596665/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-wolverine-crossover/?iid=sr-link2), and Colbert agreed. For his part, Reynolds would prefer to be able to have something Colbert called “courage bladder.” Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/"},"headline":"Watch Ryan Reynolds Make Fun of Himself About Green Lantern With Stephen Colbert","datePublished":"2017-03-22T20:12:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:07.132Z","description":"Reynolds admits that the Green Lantern might just have dumb superpowers","url":"https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","Life","stephen colbert","the late show","Late Night Television","Ryan Reynolds"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ba8830adcdcaf1a/6988bf772dce01e0779ecbba/stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ba8830adcdcaf1a/6988bf772dce01e0779ecbba/stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"stephen-clobert-ryan-reynolds","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/","name":"Watch Ryan Reynolds Make Fun of Himself About Green Lantern With Stephen Colbert"}}]}] ```