Ryan Reynolds originally wanted to give Detective Pikachu a “film noir” voice

Ryan Reynolds has been stopping by all of the big talk shows over the past few days to promote Pokemon Detective Pikachu. That included a visit on The Tonight Show where he was interviewed by Jimmy Fallon.

At one point, Reynolds was asked if he considered changing his voice for playing the role of Detective Pikachu or doing a different type of character. It turns out be did, but was ultimately shot down. While Reynolds wanted to go with a “film noire” type of voice, the people in charge didn’t believe that would be the right approach.

Reynolds stated:

“I totally did. When we first started, I was like, ‘I think I should do…’ Because it’s sort of like a film noir. Somebody likened it – it’s almost like Who Framed Roger Rabbit had a baby with Blade Runner. So I was like, ‘That’s cool.’ So I was like, ‘Okay, let me do an old-school gumshoe kind of, Colombo, Peter Falk, sort of, you know. Brooklyn kind of thing. And they were like, ‘Yeah, okay. Or you… maybe just do Ryan Reynolds.’

You can watch the full clip with Reynolds from The Tonight Show below.