Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan may have thrown their full support behind John Candy: I Like Me, the Prime Video documentary on their famous father from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds. But would they entertain a scripted biopic of the man?

“As long as Ryan does it,” Candy-Sullivan joked initially. “Colin will direct.”

Subsequently, Candy’s daughter — a co-executive producer on the doc — clarified, “It has been pitched in the past, and we’re always flattered. But personally for me, biopic is not my cup of tea.”

Her brother Chris joked, “I think there’s so many other cooler people you could do biopic on” — leading Hanks to say with a laugh, “spoken like a true son.”

The trio’s comments came as part of an appearance for the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience, where they were joined by Reynolds and editor-producer Shane Reid. Watch the conversation (which also touches on the roots of the project and its exploration of Candy’s mental health struggles) in the video below, and scroll down for photos from the event.

Reynolds opined, for his part, that he couldn’t imagine a John Candy biopic, saying “That’s an immediate no for anybody because you don’t step in those shoes.”

Reid, who previously cut Reynolds’ Deadpool & Wolverine, agreed, saying, “John was so specific. That would be a nearly impossible task.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, the collaborators turned to the great art we were undoubtedly robbed of by Candy’s tragic early death in 1994, aged 43, and the turns they imagined his career taking should he have lived longer.

“He was going in the dramatic path, but it would have been nice for him to play with the updated forms of improv comedy films, the Chris Guest movies,” Candy’s son told Deadline. “It would’ve been fun to see how he would have fit into that scene if that was a possibility.”

Candy-Sullivan agreed, adding television, commercial and talk show work to the list of unfulfilled possibilities.

Reynolds, meanwhile, had “a controversial take,” arguing that Candy would’ve slowed down.

“I think there’s a moment in your 40s particularly — I know I experience it — that you kind of go, ‘Oh, this is a business, not unlike sports, where every single person’s name comes down from the marquee,'” the multi-hyphenate reflected. “It doesn’t spare anyone, and you know that, and that’s okay.

“Especially if you’ve done this into your 40s, you’re already so far ahead of the curve of expectation that it’s mind-boggling,” Reynolds continued. “But then you also go, ‘I’ve got to slow down a little bit. Just because every second of the day, I’m reminding myself how lucky I am to get to breathe this rare air, doesn’t mean I have to do it every second of the day.'”

Colin Hanks, Jennifer Candy-Sullivan, Ryan Reynolds, Shane Reid, and Chris Candy

Indeed, Reynolds affirmed, we were “robbed” of some great work from Candy, though from his perspective, gleaned through the filmmaking process, it was undoubtedly his family that the actor cherished most of all.

Toward the beginning of the conversation, Candy’s children also reflected on the lessons they took from their father, who Reynolds referred to as “a teacher that I never met.”

“It was clear when I was younger, and then as I’ve gotten older and heard stories from other people, just the way he treated the people around him,” Chris Candy shared. “A friend of his said to me, ‘The rule was, you treat the guy who’s opening the door for you the same way as the person who’s at the top of the building, who owns the company.'”

On the awards circuit after premiering at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, John Candy: I Like Me is available for streaming on Prime Video now.

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