Ryan Reynolds opened up about whether he and wife Blake Lively might have more kids in the future during an exclusive interview.
Ryan Reynolds has a proposal for the future.
After Blake Lively joked that he was trying to get her pregnant with 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 no. 5, the Deadpool & Wolverine star shared whether he and his wife of 11 years would actually consider expanding their family. (The duo are currently parents to daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4, and a fourth child born in 2023.)
“The more the merrier,” Ryan joked to E! News in a joint interview with costar Hugh Jackman. “As many as possible. As many little heartbeats as possible, just running around, wrecking stuff in the house. I love it. Let’s have more!”
Though hopeful more means one more will favor him over his longtime friend.
“My kids prefer everything Hugh to me,” Ryan quipped before Hugh jumped in with, “Mainly just as a parent.”
After all, the 55-year-old’s movies are on repeat in Ryan and Blake’s house.
“They watched The Greatest Showman more than the editor for The Greatest Showman,” Ryan admitted. “And sometimes I come home, and this guy’s actually acting it out with them and that’s kind of amazing.” (For more with the Deadpool & Wolverine duo, tune into E! News tonight, July 22 at 11 p.m. And catch the film in theaters July 26.)
Also amazing? Well, Ryan’s never-ending goal to win over his brood. His latest push for adoration? The animated film IF about imaginary friends.
“The only four-letter word I say in this movie is ‘yes’ with two s’s,” he previously told E!. “My kids are psyched to see it, which is so nice. Cause you always want your kids to pay attention to what you do.”
Now, keep reading for more of Ryan and Blake’s quotes on parenthood.
This Will Make Your Head Spin
“I have seen Frozen with my daughters so, so many times and people don’t know this, but if you play Frozen backwards, it’s actually a shot for shot remake of The Exorcist,” Reynolds joked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018.
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Fun Uncle
On Dec. 15, 2016, Reynolds and Lively debuted their daughters James and Inez for the first time, at the actor’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony (a common setting for notoriously private celebrities to introduce the world to their kids). During his speech, Reynolds said to his wife, “You make everything better—absolutely everything in my life better. You’ve given us two of the most incredible children that I could ever hope to have. You’ve made me the father of my dreams when I thought I only had fun uncle potential.”
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Best Thing Ever
In August 2016, before the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Reynolds told E! News, “There’s nothing on earth more grounding than having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢. It’s the best thing that could ever happen to someone.”
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The Messy Side
“It’s tough when you get pooped on and barfed on, but having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 is wonderful,” the proud mama told NW Magazine in 2016. “Even when it’s tough and I’m exhausted, I think, ‘I am so fortunate.'”
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A Bullet for Baby
During a visit to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015, Reynolds gushed about his marriage and his daughter, but made sure viewers knew who was more important. “‘I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.’ I would say that to my wife. And the second I looked in that 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢’s eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢.”
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The Joys of Fatherhood
In tradition with his dark sense of humor, Reynolds shared this little parenting joke with his Twitter followers in 2016: “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.”
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Daddy’s Dirty Work
“I always do the dirty work,” Reynolds said on NBC’s Today show in 2016. “I’m happy to do the dirty work. So does she, but I’m always, I love getting up in the middle of the night, I’m fine with that, you know, all that stuff.”
Fatherhood, he said, has been “amazing.”
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Morning Duties
“I had one of those mornings, rare mornings, where my daughter just didn’t want me to leave—and it was only because my wife was asleep,” Reynolds said in 2016. “But it was like, you didn’t want to go. You just like, it 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁s you.”
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There’s Dad!
“You know, what was really weird was, we were watching the Super Bowl and my daughter saw it and she totally recognized me. There was like 12 of me, which is just like, to her, was like 24 useless boobs,” Reynolds said in 2016. “She was so not impressed. She was like, ‘Eh, whatever.'”
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Becoming A Big Kid
“Damn it’s hard letting your infant daughter go somewhere alone for the first time, I was a total mess dropping her off at Burning Man,” Ryan joked to his Twitter followers in 2016.
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Look Who’s Talking
“She’s great, man. She’s great,” the proud papa gushed in 2015 before revealing whether the couple’s then-only child James has started speaking. “We’re getting a lot of sounds, nothing that sounds like discernible English at this point,” he quipped, adding, “I’m mocking her a lot.”
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Silly Love
“@vancityreynolds Since the day our 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 was born, I’ve felt so strongly in my heart that you were most likely the father,” Lively wrote on Instagram in 2015. “#ILoveYouSoMuchItsSilly.”
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It’s a Constant Surprise
“Having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 is just living in the constant unexpected,” Lively said in 2016. “You never know when you’re gonna get crapped on or when you’re gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics. It might be like living with a drug addict. But you have a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 and you think, ‘I can’t imagine ever not having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢,’ because they grow up so quickly. I’d be an 80-year-old woman with a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 if I could.”
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Family Is Everything
“It’s the best,” Lively said in 2015. “It’s the thing that binds us all—family. We have very unique jobs for a living, but we all are a part of someone’s family. It’s a nice thing.”
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Father’s Day Gift
“On Father’s Day, my daughter smiled at me,” Reynolds tweeted in 2015. “It was all the gift I needed as I packed a bag and left for 6 years to write a book on parenting.”
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Everything’s Worth It
“There have been times where I woke up, literally had no idea I had been walking for five minutes,” he told E! News while promoting his movie Woman in Gold in 2015.
“But you love it. You wake up in the middle of the night, you got a big stupid smile on your face. I was telling someone else that. Anything else that woke you up every 45 minutes, you’d 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 it. But when it’s a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢, it’s the best thing that ever happened to you.”
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Proud Papa
“One of the most common things in the world is making out, having a couple of drinks, and then doing it, and then having a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢. I was perfectly sober for this one though. I gotta say,” Reynolds joked in 2016.
“It’s amazing. I just always marvel how common it is and yet how profound it is. And I always laugh because you know celebrities you always cringe when they talk about their kids. Like ‘my child is the only one that has ever exited a womb out, ever.'”
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Daddy’s Little Girl
“Well, a lot of people have done this, so you always want to temper it with a little of self-effacement. But I love it,” Reynolds said in 2015 about then-only child James. “I truly worship that kid. It’s terrible. She has me so far wrapped around her finger it’s dumb. She says ‘Dada’ and I will walk through a cement wall to get to her.”
