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Backpacking trip leads actor to role

By Associated Press In New York | China Daily | Updated: 2015-03-26 07:41

If Ryan Reynolds hadn't gone backpacking in Europe in the late 1990s, he might have never ended up co-starring with Helen Mirren in the film Woman in Gold.

The 38-year-old actor says he visited Vienna's Belvedere Palace and viewed Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - and even picked up a refrigerator magnet with an image of the painting on it as a souvenir.

The painting sparked an intense restitution battle between the Austrian government and a niece of Bloch-Bauer who contended the painting and four others were illegally seized by the Nazis during World War II. When producer Harvey Weinstein called to ask Reynolds to appear in the movie about the legal wrangling, he says it sparked something.

Backpacking trip leads actor to role

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