Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds has
portrayed two types of superheroes in film, one that plays the super-heroic
story conventions straight and another that is violently perfect in all his
R-rated glory. It is the latter type that he gravitates to, and the one his
fans prefer. And twice already has Reynolds portrayed Marvel’s
fourth-wall-breaking antihero Deadpool for 20th Century Fox before
it was acquired by Disney. But the film star is also a hero of sorts in real life,
one with generous pockets to boot. Over the weekend he has taken the cause of a
Filipina Canadian resident who lost a very precious teddy bear.
TIME reports that Ryan Reynolds has joined a wave of Hollywood
celebrities reaching out on social media regarding the stolen teddy bear of
Mara Soriano, a Fil-Canadian whose story was covered by journalist Deborah
Goble on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Soriano had been packing
to change addresses in Vancouver, BC when she left a bag carrying a Build-a-Bear
Workshop teddy bear, later reported stolen. While the bag also contained
citizenship documents, an iPad and Nintendo Switch, the bear was more valued by
Soriano because it featured a recorded voice of her mother Marilyn, who died of
cancer in 2019.
Vancouver: $5,000 to anyone who returns this bear to Mara. Zero questions asked. I think we all need this bear to come home. https://t.co/L4teoxoY50— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) July 25, 2020
After coming across Goble’s
Twitter post dated July 26, Reynolds replied that he would be giving a $5,000
reward to anyone who can find the lost teddy bear and return it to Soriano. “Zero
questions asked,” the “Deadpool” star wrote about his reward offer. “I think we
all need this bear to come home." The owner herself is sparing no effort
to track it down, with the bear carrying its precious message from her late mother,
as she had commissioned the Build-a-Bear for her daughter when she was already
dying.
Mara Soriano, now 28, moved to
Canada at age 9 from the Philippines and has been a current resident of
Vancouver since five years ago. Another video she shared on Twitter actually
had footage of the missing teddy bear playing her mother’s voice. In mixed
Filipino and English the message says, "Hi Ate Mara, mahal na mahal kita
okay. Remember that. You made Mommy so proud. No matter where you are, a part
of you will always be with me forever. I love you to infinity and beyond."
Ryan Reynolds’ $5K reward tweet has gotten plenty of attention, with commenters
offering to chip in to at least replace Soriano’s gadgets.
Other notables that have reacted
to the news about the lost bear include Disney Channel actress Lauren Taylor, Ronan
Keating of Boyzone, and members of the BTS Army. Vancouver Police also tweeted
for whoever finds the memento to contact their office, while security camera
footage of the Vancouver street where Soriano left her bag for a moment has
captured a possible suspect in the area.
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