Who Plays Dude In Free Guy? Ryan Reynolds Body Double Explained
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Free Guy!
While Free Guy’s Dude has the face of Ryan Reynolds, the video game character is actually played by an accomplished body double. The 2021 action comedy film Free Guy follows an online video game character named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who goes through an existential crisis when he discovers that he’s an NPC (non-player character) whose life is mapped out by a program. With Reynolds taking on a more light-hearted, optimistic take with his character, Guy becomes a sensation for players of Free City, which leads to further characters within the game being modeled after Reynolds’ main protagonist.
Toward the end of Free Guy, Free City’s creator Antwan (Taika Waititi) tries using both his coders and new programs to try to kill Guy, who is intent on retrieving the source code that proves Antwan stole the game from Millie and Keys. After Mouser fails to kill Guy, Antwan sends in Dude, an unfinished, massive, muscular version of Guy being developed for Free City 2. Dude, who has the same face and voice as Guy but with a very different body, ultimately fails in killing Guy when Ryan Reynolds’ Disney protagonist puts player glasses on the unfinished character.
Related: Who Plays Buddy In Free Guy? Where You Know The Actor From
Although Reynolds is credited as portraying Dude in Free Guy, it’s only his superimposed face and voice acting that went into creating Dude. In reality, Dude was played by Reynolds’ body double Aaron W. Reed, a bodybuilder and former WWE professional wrestler. The 6’7” athlete is putting his remarkable size to use in Hollywood, with the hit film Free Guy being his fifth major US production. While Reed’s face isn’t used for Dude, he can also be seen in
Read more on screenrant.com
