Even the strongest celebrity couples can get a little tense with one another under the bright lights. We asked a lip reader what seemed to be getting under Ryan Reynolds' skin at a recent red carpet event with his wife, Blake Lively.
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00:00Even the strongest celebrity couples can get a little tense with one another under the
00:04bright lights. We asked a lip reader what seemed to be getting under Ryan Reynolds'
00:08skin at a recent red carpet event with his wife, Blake Lively.
00:13Reynolds and Lively have been together for more than 12 years — an eternity in Hollywood
00:17time — and they're still going strong, but photographers captured a bit of tension between
00:21them on the red carpet at the premiere of Lively's new film It Ends With Us, a romantic
00:26drama co-starring and directed by Justin Baldoni.
00:29Reynolds is just coming off the wildly successful promotional campaign for Deadpool and Wolverine,
00:34which helped the film eclipse the financial success of the previous two Deadpool films.
00:38After spending half of summer 2024 chumming it up in interviews and publicity events with
00:42co-star Hugh Jackman, Reynolds has now jumped into the role of supporting husband.
00:47That means he was Lively's date to the It Ends With Us premiere. The gorgeous couple
00:51posed happily in their coordinating fits. Lively wore the exact pink, green, and yellow
00:55Versace butterfly dress that Britney Spears wore in 2002.
00:59"'Britney' has just meant so much to me forever. I'm a forever Britney stan."
01:03Reynolds matched her with a gray suit adorned with soft pink accents. In a clip shared by
01:07E! News, the couple poses for various shots as Reynolds makes brief small talk with the
01:12photogs. Soon, Reynolds and Lively begin talking with each other, which is where things get
01:16slightly awkward.
01:17According to professional lip reader Nicola Hickling, Reynolds was a bit antsy on the
01:21red carpet. He seemed very eager to get away from the blaring camera lights. His conversation
01:26with Lively is inaudible in the video, but Hickling says he asks Lively,
01:30"'Is this the last time?' Lively responds,
01:32'No, we gotta speak to everyone. Erm, are you impressed? There's more.' Then Reynolds
01:37retorts,
01:38"'Yeah, yeah, well, it's hardly a secret.'"
01:40There could be a number of reasons why the star wasn't feeling the red carpet that night.
01:43Chief among them would be that he was probably exhausted from the Deadpool and Wolverine
01:47press tour. Plus, Lively already addressed those super-annoying divorce rumors that
01:51periodically follow her and her hubby after an audacious fan mentioned them in her Instagram
01:56comment section. The fan wrote,
01:58"'You and Ryan need to post more of each other. There were rumors going around that you two
02:02got divorced and I didn't believe it because you two are literally the perfect couple.'"
02:06Lively simply replied,
02:08"'Haha, they wish.'"
02:09Reynolds may have also been annoyed about the weather. Just before discussing her Britney-honoring
02:14dress with Extra, she remarked,
02:16"'Oh my God, my husband's getting soaking wet in the rain.'"
02:18It is worth noting that even though Reynolds did seem uncomfortable on the red carpet,
02:22he actually talked about it with his wife rather than bottling it up. That means something.
02:27Reynolds has also been very supportive throughout the lead-up to the release of It Ends With
02:30Us. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner, Lively's other on-screen romantic
02:35partner, to help promote the film. Of course, he did so in classic, tongue-in-cheek Ryan
02:40Reynolds fashion, interrogating Sclinner about performing love scenes with his wife.
02:44"'It's not every day the husband gets to interview his wife's love interest in a film.'"
02:48After asking whether Sclinner has a nickname for Lively, Reynolds went on to ask the actor
02:52about his body, specifically his posterior, holding up a picture he said was suggestive.
02:57"'The genetics? You have some sort of like low-angle squat routine to pop that region
03:03in that way? I mean, what's going on here, man?'
03:05So clearly, Reynolds is having fun most of the time.
03:13Reynolds has also been very supportive throughout the lead-up to the release of It Ends With
03:14Us. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner, Lively's other on-screen romantic
03:15partner, to help promote the film. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner
03:16about his body, specifically his posterior, holding up a picture he said was suggestive.
03:17Reynolds has also been very supportive throughout the lead-up to the release of It Ends With
03:18Us. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner, Lively's other on-screen romantic
03:19partner, to help promote the film. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner,
03:20Lively's other on-screen romantic partner, to help promote the film. He even conducted
03:21an interview with Brandon Sclinner, Lively's other on-screen romantic partner, to help
03:22promote the film. He even conducted an interview with Brandon Sclinner, Lively's other on-screen