{"id":389441,"date":"2026-01-25T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389441\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:53:07","slug":"okay-maybe-at-least-one-of-those-nicepool-jokes-might-have-been-about-justin-baldoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389441\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, maybe at least one of those Nicepool jokes might have been about Justin Baldoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the many weird, seemingly endless tributaries branching off from the great fractious river of oddness known as the Great Justin Baldoni\/Blake Lively Feud Of 2025-Through-Forever, few are as weird, to our mind, as Baldoni\u2019s assertion<\/a> that Ryan Reynolds wrote a character in 2024\u2019s\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a>\u00a0specifically to make fun of him. Like, even if it was true that the character of Nicepool\u2014a variant of the Merc With A Mouth who frequently talks about how handsome he is while spouting catchphrases of obnoxiously performative feminism\u2014was based on Baldoni\u2019s alleged behavior during the filming of his and Lively\u2019s\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/a>, why would you stand up and admit that about yourself? After all, it\u2019s not like anybody could prove\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

Cut to this past week, when a whole trove of communications from various participants in the drama surrounding It Ends With Us\u00a0were unsealed as court documents. People have been poring over this new bushel of often-mocking texts pretty aggressively\u2014Lively\u2019s friend Taylor Swift features prominently, adding an extra lighthouse or two of spotlight to the reveals\u2014but a few people have noticed a very specific incident that\u2019s actually pretty hard not to link to the Nicepool character. Specifically, Lively\u2014whose lawsuit against Baldoni claims he frequently made invasive moves to monitor her weight during the filming of the movie\u2014sent a text to a third party recounting an incident<\/a> in which she said that, shortly after giving birth to her fourth child, \u201cI actually had my director\/costar call my trainer today to ask what I\u2019ll weigh in two weeks when we shoot. Because he\u2019s worried about his back and bone density and wants to be sure he\u2019s ok to lift me up for our sex scenes.\u201d (Other texts reportedly show Reynolds reacting to Baldoni\u2019s motive with mockery, writing, \u201cTo circle back, he has low bone density.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Which, as those of you with encyclopedic knowledge of Reynolds\u2019 filmography will know, is exactly the same reason Nicepool gives for not participating in Deadpool & Wolverine\u2018s\u00a0final big Deadpool melee. (He also notes at one point that Lady Deadpool, played by Lively, \u201cjust had a baby,\u201d and \u201cyou can\u2019t even tell,\u201d which feels pretty pointed.) In analyzing The Nicepool Situation last year, THR\u00a0noted<\/a> that, while the character was always included in the film\u2019s script, the ad lib-loving Reynolds didn\u2019t shoot the Nicepool scenes until after\u00a0the SAG-AFTRA and Writer\u2019s Guild strikes, which would put the timing of those moments right in line with when tensions were brewing on It Ends With Us. None of which is conclusive proof, of course, especially since the judge overseeing the ongoing cases ruled last year that the issue wasn\u2019t legally germane when he threw out Baldoni\u2019s defamation lawsuit against Swift and Lively (and junked Baldoni\u2019s plans<\/a> to subpoena Marvel about any Nicepool planning documents in the process). Still, though: Comedy springs forth from specificity, and it does seem like Reynolds was in a very specific\u00a0mindset when he man-bunned up to film a couple of those scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the many weird, seemingly endless tributaries branching off from the great fractious river of oddness known as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-389441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}