Vancouver police are recommending a charge of intimidation be laid against a paparazzo accused in a hit and run involving movie star Ryan Reynolds.

A 52-year-old Richmond resident is in custody in connection to the incident that happened on Friday in the parking lot of Vancouver's posh Shangri-La hotel.

Police said the Vancouver-born actor got into a confrontation with the photographer before he was hit by a vehicle.

A police officer contacted the photographer by phone after the incident and he agreed to speak with investigators, who made the decision to arrest him. His car has also been seized.

Sense of humour unharmed

Reynolds suffered a sore knee and a sore back, but is back at work on the set of his new film, Deadpool, which is shooting on the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver.

The actor showed his sense of humour was unharmed in a cheeky response to CBC reporter Richard Zussman's query about his injuries:

Put Beachcombers back on the air and I'll call. <a href="https://t.co/g9jbBppMHu">https://t.co/g9jbBppMHu</a> —@VancityReynolds

Reynolds, who grew up in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano, would have been starting high school when the Beachcombers, a long-running CBC comedy, went off the air in 1990.