Ryan Reynolds is the cover boy for the June issue of Details. The Details people sent us some advance quote and you can read more and see a hot looking slideshow (if you’re into Reynolds) on their website.

I’m not a big fan of his and I find him full of himself, but as I’ve mentioned in the past I think he’s changed over the past year or so and has lost some of his arrogance. I’m probably influenced by Lainey more than anything, as she’s interviewed Ryan and vouches that he’s not the dick he used to be. Plus she’s Canadian like Ryan and is privy to more of their gossip up North. Kaiser doesn’t agree and says he’s still an assh*le. Maybe he is and he’s just learned to tone it down. He says a lot of goofy things in this interview, but he gets serious too and tries to be introspective. He doesn’t come across badly here:

On his next career move and masturbating over Skype
“I don’t really know what I’m going to do next,” Reynolds says. “I’ll meet with some directors via Skype. If the camera angle’s just right, you can be ferociously masturbating and they have no idea.”

On not settling on one genre of films
“I’m not declaring nothing, man! I’m getting away with something I’d like to continue getting away with.”

Joking about his dark side
“You want to see what I’m like when we turn the tape recorder off? I slit throats, that’s what I do. I only drink panda tears. Do not bring me water. Do not bring me filtered water. I want the tears of a newborn panda, and I will have them—because I’m Ryan Reynolds!”

On not sharing details of his divorce
“I’ll say this: the media was not invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.”

On his divorce
“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain,” he says, “but you come out of it. I’m not out of it yet. At all. But I sense that as I do come through it, there’s optimism. How can there not be? I don’t think I want to get married again, but you always reevaluate these things. Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up. I gotta say, I’m a different person than I was six months ago.”

“Departing a relationship and still maintaining the idea that this is still the same person I married is a great luxury that I experienced. Thankfully I was in a relationship where two people chose to remain on the high road in every regard.”

On how the press got his divorce wrong
“What was happening privately was the exact opposite of what was being reported,” he says. “There was no story and no scandal, so the narrative was just created for me. That was the most disturbing part. I wasn’t angry. I absolutely predicted every beat of it. There’s an entire economy around this sort of thing—therefore it’s gotta happen one way or another. There was a time, though, when looking at the Internet was a miracle cure for feeling good about myself.”

On being single
“You’ve got walls up in a way you didn’t before,” he admits. “But you’re also open to things in a way you weren’t before. I have no interest in dating right now. It just seems so kind of alien to me at this point. I’ve been in relationships pretty much since high school. Some people look at that as a good thing. I think wiser people might see that as a house of cards.”

Of course, there’s the pretty German model he’s been seen with around Cape Town. That’s his business, but more to the point, he seems content to be his own man for a while and wait to see where the next adventure takes him.

“I’m very happy not to be in a relationship right now. That’s okay. I didn’t plan on it, that’s for sure . . . but that’s okay.”

[From Details]

I don’t get how you can get divorced and think it’s still the same person you married. From what I’ve known of friends’ divorces, it’s all about how the other person changed or isn’t who they thought they were, or did something so unforgivable that they looked at them totally differently afterwards. This stuff about how Ryan and Scarjo took the high road and still had high regard for each other isn’t ringing true to me, but he’s so vague about it all that I guess I can’t judge. I like what he said about how it’s like a house of cards when you’re divorced and you shouldn’t try to date right away. He’s growing on me, but I think I’d find him off putting if he weren’t famous. He makes a lot of stupid wisecracks that sound awkward and forced, like a frat guy with his buddies. Those dudes grow up but do they ever really change?

Here’s Ryan at Comicon on 3/31/11. The doucheface is strong with this one.

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