Ryan Reynolds Jokes Blake Lively Is 'Probably Filing Divorce Papers' For This Reason

April 2024 · 2 minute read

When your other half is working overseas and you have two small children to look after, what do you do?

Well, if you're Ryan Reynolds, the situation serves as the perfect opportunity to catch up on all the television shows you haven't had time to watch, naturally.

‘My wife's been shooting a film overseas so I've been having a ton of time to pretend like I'm watching the kids,’ he joked during a panel discussion at San Diego’s Comic-Con 2018 over the weekend. ‘She's probably filing [divorce] papers as we speak.’

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Lively is currently filming the thriller The Rhythm Section - which is set for release in February 2019 - in Spain and Ireland.

The father-of-two added he’s also riding ‘a weird movie tour’ journey when it comes to his television viewing habits in recent weeks.

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‘Do you ever do those where you watch like every Quentin Tarantino movie? So I've been kind of doing that,’ he said.

The Deadpool actor revealed he and his 30-year-old wife are H-U-G-E Handmaid’s Tale fans.

‘Loving Handmaids Tale. Wishing there were more, we just watched the last one,’ Reynolds said.

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Season 2 of the hit dystopian Hulu series, starring Elisabeth Moss, ended earlier this month.

If you wanted even further confirmation that you, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively would be real-life BFFs, here it is. Praise be.

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