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This artist superimposes celebrities into everyday settings. His latest video left Ryan Reynolds 'speechless'

Joel Strong had a stack of old Tiger Beat magazines when he got the idea to make Leonardo DiCaprio an "influencer."

In 2014, the New York City-based artist started the Instagram account "mydaywithleo" where he superimposed cutouts of DiCaprio in modern settings. Since then, he's done the same with other celebrities such as Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Betty White and even politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Most recently, the artist's work has gone viral for a collaboration he did with Ryan Reynolds.

It all started when the actor reached out to Strong on Instagram. As part of his latest series where he superimposes celebrities onto people working "side jobs," he posted on his Instagram story that he was thinking of adding Reynolds to the series as a worker in a hardware store.

To Strong's surprise, Reynold's responded with the job he really would want to do, if he weren't an actor.

"One day he just slid into my DMs and said he wanted to express himself through the exciting medium of ribbon dancing," Strong told AOL. "That’s exactly how this came about."

The idea sounded funny, and from there, Strong and the "Deadpool" actor chatted to finalize the idea that would become the now-viral video.

"I showed Ryan the project when I was done. I wanted there to be a little slice in time when Ryan and me were the only ones that had seen it. I thought that would be special and it was," Strong said. "I know it sounds sappy but our emails from that day are very dear to me."

When Reynolds saw the finished video, he said: "Holy s***, this is amazing. I can't even make a joke. I'm speechless!!!!" according to Strong.

The actor posted the video on his Instagram, where it has been viewed over 5 million times. Strong even snuck in the 43-year-old's infamous ugly Christmas sweater that he turned into a chance to help the SickKids Foundation into the video.

"The one thing I’ve learned through all this is Ryan really is a swell dude and his priorities seem to be pointed in the right direction," Strong said.

How the video came to life

Strong told AOL this piece was his favorite that he's ever done, "mostly because (Reynolds) was involved from the beginning and he seems so happy with it."

This video was unlike any other that Strong had done before, but he was "up for a challenge."

"My video shoots are my own little baby. I blend stop motion, practical effects and forced perspective and it's important to me that nothing gets cheated," Strong told AOL.

"I hold the cutouts and take every photo and capture everything you see in frame. Those things are important to me and so I work within those confines to make my videos," he added.

The video itself, which was shot at a dance studio in New York, took three hours to shoot. Scott Weber, a New York City-based performer and dancer, acted as Reynolds's body that artfully ribbon-danced throughout the video.

In the end, the 54-second video took 10 days, 587 frames, 38 cutouts of Reynolds and a lot of difficult poses to come to life. But it was all worth it for Strong.

"It's nice to hit your mark and make something that Ryan Rodney Reynolds thinks is wonderful," he said.