{"id":173888,"date":"2025-09-27T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:33:08","slug":"ryan-reynolds-latest-joke-on-blake-lively-isnt-landing-how-he-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173888\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Latest Joke On Blake Lively Isn\u2019t Landing How He Thinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have built an entire brand on trolling<\/a> each other, but Reynolds\u2019 latest quip<\/a> feels a little less cute than he might have intended. During a Thursday event promoting his John Candy documentary, the actor admitted he told his wife \u201cf*** you\u201d in order to take a call from Bill Murray \u2014 and the crowd laughed.<\/p>\n

Reynolds explained that he\u2019d been leaving \u201c40 messages\u201d for Murray in hopes of securing his participation. So when his phone finally lit up with Murray\u2019s name while he and Lively were walking into a formal event, he panicked. Lively whispered, \u201cWe have to go in.\u201d His response? \u201cF*** you!\u201d as he darted to answer, per Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sure, Reynolds framed the whole story as a self-deprecating joke, but it\u2019s worth noting the humor only really works if you ignore the optics. As my second-grade teacher once said, if you have to tell people you\u2019re kidding, then you aren\u2019t telling a joke. You\u2019re being a bully.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Reynolds\u2019 trolling has edged into uncomfortable territory. Fans recently raised eyebrows when their daughter Inez \u2014 then only six or seven \u2014 delivered a sexually explicit line<\/a> in Deadpool & Wolverine, a choice many felt was orchestrated more for shock value than comedy. Add in the couple\u2019s ongoing entanglement in It Ends With Us drama, where Reynolds was accused of \u201cscabbing\u201d during the WGA strike<\/a>, and the trolling stops looking like harmless banter and starts to resemble a pattern of control.<\/p>\n

To be clear, Lively has held her own in their long-running bit, with Instagram unfollows, snarky captions, and her own playful burns. The difference is that trolling online reads differently than hurling an F-bomb at your wife mid-event, no matter how \u201cdesperate\u201d you are to talk to Bill Murray.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Reynolds and Lively\u2019s entire public persona rests on the idea that they\u2019re in on the joke together. But when the punchline veers into profanity at your partner\u2019s expense, it raises a question fans have been circling for years: is this still just playful trolling, or is the joke hinting at something a little more insidious about their dynamic?<\/p>\n

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