A DETAILED READ

Ryan Reynold covers the latest issue of DETAILS.

How is it possible that RyRy gets better looking with each passing day?

Aggregate is a word Reynolds likes to use to describe his non-meteoric rise to the top of the Hollywood call sheet. It's a fair description of how he got here. Step one: Come out of nowhere (which is to say, Canada) and hustle your way into TV movies and a kids' series despite discouragement from your working-class Vancouver family. Step two: Make the jump to the big screen (1993's Ordinary Magic—he played Ganesh, a boy raised in India sent to live with family in Ontario. Sample dialogue: "They are not so very different, basketball and yoga"). Step three: Drive to L.A. from Vancouver "on the whimmiest of whims" in 1995 with an aspiring-actor friend and, after a few years, land a part on a sitcom (Two Guys and a Girl). And here's where the steps pile up and blend together, until finally, two decades later, you're People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive and the CGI-swaddled flying green lead of a summer blockbuster.

It also didn't hurt being engaged to a musical zeitgeist from the Nineties : Alanis Morissette.

These actors make their exodus stories to Hollywood sound like such a hardship....

Hello? Alanis didn't open a ton of doors for you or introduce you to the "right" people??