Fans are coming after actor Ryan Reynolds for his admission that his 7-year-old daughter, Inez, was supposed to make a sexually explicit joke as part of her role in the 2023 Marvel film “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
The 48-year-old actor, who shares Inez and two other daughters with actress Blake Lively, discussed what happened on the commentary track for the movie’s Deadpool Corps scene, per Buzzfeed.
The scene in question features Inez playing a small child wearing a Deadpool mask, hoodie, and red pants. She was originally supposed to shout at Reynold’s character “Hey, when I want your opinion, I’ll take Wolverine’s d**k out of your mouth.”
While discussing the scene, Reynolds said his child originally didn’t feel comfortable saying the line.
“Guiltily, that is my daughter Inez,” the actor says in the commentary, prompting the film’s director Shawn Levy to reply, “I’m so sorry we have to admit that.”
“I am father of the year over here for allowing her to say such language, which, to her credit, she really didn’t want to say,” Reynolds added. “And then [she] came back later and said: ‘I want to say it now,’ when I started looking at other people to play it.”
Levy followed up by revealing that the child had to say other inappropriate things while filming the movie. “Yeah, but Ryan, to our discredit, we made Nezzy say — I’m not sh***ing you — 70 to 500 versions of that line,” the director said.
“Yeah, I’m gonna pay for that later,” Reynolds said.
Per a script of the movie on Disney, the line was changed to, “Hey! When we want your opinion, I’ll take my d*** out of your mouth!”
Nicepool, a variation of Deadpool, then replies, “That’s Kidpool. He’s the dirtiest.”
This back and forth is getting a lot of reactions online, which many social media users voicing their disgust that Reynolds would permit his young child to say those lines.
“There’s no reason she needed to deliver that line herself. It’s a character with a mask and no visible mouth, it could easily have been dubbed over,” one Reddit user noted.
“Or just remove the line completely,” another person responded in the thread. “If a comedy writer can’t make an equally funny line that an actor feels comfortable saying maybe they shouldn’t be a writer.”
“A little innocent girl that doesn’t even understand the depth of these words. She changed her mind bc he looked into someone else doing the part. I want to cry,” an X user wrote.
“It’s horrifying. This was the original line she didn’t want to say and they tortured her by making her say this and other ones over and over,” another person chimed in.
Reynolds is currently involved in a legal battle with Lively’s former “It Ends With Us” co-star, Justin Baldoni. The couple accused him of defamation and other allegations, which prompted Baldoni to countersue for $400 million. A trial has been scheduled for March 2026.
Baldoni also asserts that the “Nicepool” character was made as a way of mocking him.
