As he and director Colin Hanks were putting together their upcoming career-spanning documentary on the late comedian John Candy, producer Ryan Reynolds says he discovered archival footage of journalists who said mean things about the actor’s weight.

Reynolds made the revelation during an onstage conversation at the recently-wrapped Toronto International Film Festival as he discussed his career and the forthcoming doc, .

“There was a lot of things we left out of the documentary, journalists just saying stuff. One of them I called. I didn’t put it in the movie, but I called this journalist just to see,” Reynolds told the audience (via Entertainment Weekly ).

Reynolds said he wasn’t “ trying to shame him or teach him a lesson.”

“(I told him) I took it out of the movie, but I’d p

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