Before It Ends with Us releases in theaters, Ryan Reynolds felt it was finally time to come face-to-face with his wife Blake Lively‘s love interest in the film.
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, Ryan, 47, shared a video to Instagram of himself surprising Brandon Sklenar during a press day for the movie — and he brought along his mother Tammy Reynolds and best friend Hugh Jackman to grill the actor, 34, as well.
“It’s not every day the husband gets to interview his wife’s love interest in a film. It’s kind of crazy,” Ryan said, as he sat down in an interviewer’s chair and began asking Sklenar questions despite his protests that they were not scheduled to meet.
The Deadpool and Wolverine star then went about questioning a photograph of Sklenar and Lively, 36, together.
“So I saw you posing in a photo with Mrs. Reynolds — I’m sorry, what do you call her, do you guys have a nickname or something?” he asked, before diving into questions regarding Sklenar’s backside. “Is that genetics? Do you have some sort of low-angle squat routine to pop that region in that way? I mean, what’s going on here, man?”
Ryan’s amusing interview with Sklenar took a turn for the absurd when he joked that he has been using methamphetamine. “Ryan? You wanna take a break?” Sklenar asked at one point, to which Reynolds responded, “From Blake? Sure.”
Cut to two minutes later, Reynolds and Sklenar are shown hugging it out — and then Ryan’s mother Tammy steps into the frame to grill Sklenar with new questions.
“Well, it’s not every day the mother-in-law of the leading lady gets to interview the love interest and the man trying to replace my sweet little gummy bear Ryan,” she said, reading questions her son wrote in jest that suggest Ryan is looking for a new father figure in his life.
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“It says: Ryan would love to have a new dad to have a catch, and I think he could really use a man in his life,” one question read, as Ryan himself returned to read the question. “Hugh is no spring chicken anymore. Blink once for yes, or blink once for I’d love to be your new dad.”
Jackman, 55, then entered the video as the third and final interviewer Sklenar faced, joking that Lively’s It Ends with Us costar is “the guy trying to replace Ryan as a husband and me as his best mate.”
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“Sir, I have no idea what’s happening at all today, but I do have to say while I have you here: Your work in Les Mis. . . what a triumph,” Sklenar told Jackman, seemingly winning the actor over. “I mean, you can do it all. You’re a unicorn.”
The video ends with Ryan, his mother and Jackman each complimenting Sklenar and wearing sweaters that match what Lively’s costar wore in the video. “I think we found the next Wolverine,” Jackman jests as the clip ends.
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It Ends with Us is in theaters Aug. 9.
