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Ryan Reynolds' Alleged Bullying Of Deadpool Co-Star Resurfaces Amid Blake Lively Drama! But The Full Story Is...

Ryan Reynolds Bullying Deadpool Costar Justin Baldoni Blake Lively Legal Battle

A new (old) wrinkle has come up in the ongoing It Ends With Us legal drama.

The thrust of Justin Baldoni‘s $400 million lawsuit is that he isn’t a sexual harasser or anything close — he’s just the latest victim of Hollywood mean girl Blake Lively and her super bully hubby Ryan Reynolds. His suit specifically brings up Deadpool — and implies Ryan pushed the director of the first movie out of the franchise, taking all the control for himself.

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So it makes sense an interview in which a co-star from the Deadpool franchise saying Ryan was a bully would resurface. It’s just the kind of thing that’s been resurfacing about Blake for the past few months, right? But when you hear the full story on this one, it miiiiiiight just end up with Ryan looking like the better, bigger man.

The Interview

OK, so the interview was T.J. Miller on The Adam Carolla Show from back in 2022. This may be ringing a bell for some of y’all already. If not… The comedian had some harsh things to say about his co-star. He recounted a story of Ryan getting too personal as they were improvising in character as Deadpool and Weasel:

“As the character, he was, like, horrifically mean to me. But to me. As if I’m Weasel. He was like, ‘You know what’s great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you do just enough exposition that it’s funny, and then we can leave and get back to the real movie.’”

The thing is, Deadpool breaks the fourth wall, that’s kind of his whole thing. He even mentioned Hugh Jackman‘s divorce in Deadpool & Wolverine, it was pretty harsh. But Miller was upset. He recalled:

“That’s exactly why he said that — because I’m not funnier than he is at all, right? And I haven’t been in more movies than him.”

He even said other crew members were uncomfortable by how personal it got:

“I just kind of listened and thought it was weird, and then I got off stage because they were like, ‘Cut…?’”

And he went so far as to vow he wouldn’t work with Ryan again:

“Would I work with him again? No. I would not work with him again. I sorta wish him well because he’s so good at Deadpool, and I think it’s weird that he hates me.”

T.J. added that he thought Ryan was actually really “insecure” IRL — and had let fame change him:

“He’s such a good comedian that, when you cover his face, he’s so quick, he’s so funny. I love him as a comedian, but I think after he got super, super famous from the first Deadpool, then things kinda changed. I think he was like, ‘See? You guys see?’”

Ryan letting the fame turn him into a monster really feeds into Justin Baldoni’s theory of the case. We’re not saying this interview didn’t resurface organically, it just… really seems to help his lawsuit. On the surface, anyway. There’s a couple issues with it though…

Ryan Apologized

If Ryan was really a huge jerk, would he have felt terrible when he heard about his co-star being hurt? Because that’s apparently what happened.

Miller was asked about the incident just a couple days later on SiriusXM’s Jim Norton & Sam Roberts podcast. And by that time, everything had already changed! The comic revealed:

“It was really cool. He emailed me the next day… so I emailed him back, and now it’s fine.”

He told the hosts it had all been a “misunderstanding” and Ryan told him he had no intention of hurting his feelings with the riffing:

“It was very cool for him to say, ‘Hey, you know, I just heard on the show that you were upset about this.’ And I kind of said, ‘You know, I’m not,’ and then we sort of just hashed it out really quickly.”

That’s the first issue with painting Ryan as the bad guy in this story. The second is a lot more complicated…

The Bad Guy

Like we said, some of y’all probably heard the name T.J. Miller and already alarm bells were going off. That’s because he’s had a much more controversial past few years than Ryan.

A few months before Deadpool 2 came out, after filming was done, a college girlfriend of T.J.’s spoke out, saying he had sexually assaulted her. Not only were those allegations awful, more women came forward with their own stories about him.

Miller was fired from his hit HBO show Silicon Valley. But not just because of the sexual misconduct allegations — apparently they couldn’t wait to be rid of him! Series creator Mike Judge told The Hollywood Reporter Miller’s exit came as a huge relief to the production. Sources said this was “a long time coming” as he was an unprofessional jerk. Co-star Alice Wetterlund called him “a bully and petulant brat.” And then there was the incident where he allegedly called in a fake bomb threat to an Amtrak train??

The point is, if Ryan was salty about working with this guy again on the sequel, if he was making snide remarks to him in character… what would you make of that? Kind of like when he heard Baldoni fat-shamed his wife and confronted him over it? Everyone was on his side then, too. Some might even argue Miller is maybe less of a reliable witness when it comes to a situation like this considering he’s allegedly been on the other side of it more often than not.

So if Justin’s team did dig up this interview like Blake claims he did with hers — and we aren’t saying he did — if this was part of a smear campaign, it wasn’t a good call. What do YOU think??

[Image via MEGA/WENN/Fox/YouTube.]

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Jan 29, 2025 13:45pm PDT