20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2021 (So Far)
9. Morgan Freeman Is Ryan Reynolds' Stepdad - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard is in no way a good movie, but it does feature an amusingly ridiculous extended cameo from Morgan Freeman, who was kept out of the film's trailers for one specific reason.
As it turns out, he plays the father of Ryan Reynolds' protagonist Michael Bryce - well, stepfather, for obvious reasons - who is himself a bodyguard and, later on, revealed to be a secondary villain working for the big bad, Aristotle Papadopoulos (Antonio Banderas).
Freeman naturally spends most of his role talking rather than fighting, at least until the end where his stepson fatally stabs him in the neck with a pocketknife.