Colin Hanks remembers the exact moment he met John Candy . He was just a child when his father, Tom (you may have heard of him before), starred in Splash with Candy, yet the Canadian comedian talked to Colin as if he weren’t a six-year-old with zero business walking around a film set. “Even as a kid, he connected with me,” Hanks tells me. “He made me feel heard, and that’s rare for an adult to make that kind of impression on a kid. Not many adults do.”

Some 40 years later, Hanks received a cold call from Ryan Reynolds . They had exchanged messages here and there over the years. The two actors were both young stars coming up in Hollywood around the same time, though they had never worked together before. Still, Reynolds was a massive John Candy fan, according to Hanks, so the De

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