Ryan Reynolds says parents are ‘soft’ today in comparison to the ‘improvised militia’ he experienced

"Deadpool" star Ryan Reynolds said that parents todays are softer with their children – him included – than they were when he was growing up

Reynolds has spoken in the past about his difficulties relating to his father, who died of Parkinson’s disease in 2015. 

"My father was a man who does not share his feelings," he told People previously. "He was a boxer, a cop, a hard-a--. I can’t even recall ever really having a proper conversation with my father. He was a present father, never missed a football game, but he just didn’t have the capacity to feel, or at least share, the full spectrum of human emotion a bit. And pride was just so ingrained in him that it dictated almost everything that he did."