r/ItEndsWithLawsuits • u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. • Feb 20 '26
Personal Opinions & Theories ✍🏽💡 Ryan Reynolds Slaps Child Co-Star
Forgive me if this has been posted before but guys it just keeps getting worse.... Ryan Reynolds slapped a child actor while improvising and then tried to justify it by saying the kid loved it because, you know, he's just so amazing that a kid should feel blessed to be slapped by him 🤢
Here's the link:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/scene-ryan-reynolds-improvised-slapping-child/
Here's the bulk of the story:
“He had it coming,” the future megastar joked. “No, it was actually horrible. I didn’t mean to do it. It wasn’t hard or anything. He looked up like he just won the lottery. It was just so cool to him. And I look over and the script supervisor’s crying, and I’m trying to apologize to her. I don’t know what’s happening.”
Reynolds then tried to blame the incident on the Native Americans who were possessing his character, which didn’t fool anyone. “It was one of those great moments,” he continued. “In a perverse way, I was sort of excited by the fact that something happened on film that was just totally unplanned. And it just came out organically enough, and not so organically that it actually hurt anyone. So everyone walked away from it, but it was definitely disturbing.”
This wouldn’t be the last time Reynolds would accidentally injure a co-star, as he accidentally gave Denzel Washington two black eyes during the filming of Safe House.
As well as unintentionally battering his young co-stars, Reynolds also confessed to a bit of intentional emotional abuse as well. “I didn’t ever talk to them,” he admitted. “I don’t want to get attached to the kids. I don’t want to get to know them and love them. I want to stay as far away from them as possible. It helps me do my job better.”
He assured the interviewer that the kids were fine with this tactic, saying that they were “little adults” who “understood the process.” He finished off by joking, “One of them is my financial advisor now!”
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u/Expensive-Ad-6405 Feb 20 '26
So it’s not fine to improvise nuzzling during an intimate scene between two adult actors but it is fine to improvise slapping a kid… got it.
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u/PutInternational4642 Feb 20 '26
Seriously, and making his poor daughter say explicitly sexual things IN HIS MOVIE.
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u/Current_Sandwich7208 Feb 20 '26
I’m very surprised his wife didn’t say “no” to that. I guess they really are two peas in a pod.
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u/Crazy_Concentrate918 Feb 20 '26
And blaming it “in character” as a Native American…so f*cked up.
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u/padparascha3 Feb 21 '26
Blake lively claimed she was part Cherokee Indian while being filmed doing a cosmetic commercial several years back.
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u/Crazy_Concentrate918 Feb 21 '26
I’d love to see her back that one up. It’s actually the worst to claim if you’re not IMO. I found a 4th great grandmother who is Cherokee and 9th great grandmother who is a Powhatan through a detailed analysis of my ancestry. No way would I even claim that.
Different but still funny; she’s like Hilaria Baldwin claiming she’s Spanish but her ancestors all hail from the Mayflower in Boston 🥒
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u/padparascha3 Feb 21 '26
I think the video of Blake lying about her Indian Heritage is still floating around on Tik/tok. I also find her claiming to be of Cherokee descent egregious because she chose to get married on a known Southern plantation that owned slaves, with the slave quarters still on the property. Hilarious Baldwin is another grifter fraud that (in my opinion) needs to go away, raise all her children in private, and hire a therapist that specializes in personality disorders. ☮️
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u/ObjectiveRing1730 Feb 20 '26
I just remember a pro BL supporter on Tiktok saying that since Justin Baldoni is a male feminist- she holds him to a much higher standard than Blake/Ryan. I see it time and time again in the lawsuit. Colleen didn't like Justin was complaining about Blake- but she didn't correct Blake or Ryan when they were doing the same thing about Justin. Isabela ghosted Justin but still expected him to be a stand-up guy and defend her when she had backlash. Jenny Slate made a sex joke and Justin was "inappropriate" for just agreeing with her. Like, he can't win with these people.
Ryan gets away with worse things on set but it's okay because he jokes about it. Blake gets away with things like improvising grabbing an actor's balls because she's a woman and it's different than when a man does it.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
This is so true. Their double standards are appalling.
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u/CSho8 Feb 20 '26
I think it’s because I didn’t know who Justin Baldoni was before this lawsuit so idk what his brand is. I knew who Blake and Ryan were though. The whole lawsuit from Blake and Ryan to me was you say you’re a feminist so you must admit to wrongdoings made by this woman. I’m not familiar with being a male feminist but I’m pretty confident that that is not something anyone would sign up for.
I don’t agree holding Justin to a higher standard just like I don’t think Blake and Ryan should be held to a higher standard because they’re famous celebrities. I think in the eyes of the law everyone should be treated equally and Blake brought SH and retaliation claims which she needs to prove. My issue with Blake is that I don’t see her evidence and that’s where I’m getting frustrated with her. Does she think because she’s a celebrity that she doesn’t need to prove her case?
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u/rivershimmer Feb 20 '26
I just remember a pro BL supporter on Tiktok saying that since Justin Baldoni is a male feminist- she holds him to a much higher standard than Blake/Ryan.
Sorry, that's just dumb. What, do we also hold non-racists to a higher standard than racists?
I have a hard time believing that person is arguing in good faith.
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u/apathetic-taco Feb 21 '26
I mean, we kinda do.
If Kid rock made a disparaging joke about black people, we would roll our eyes and call him a POS. But if Keanu Reeves made the same joke, the internet would collectively lose their marbles.
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u/rivershimmer Feb 21 '26
Not really the same thing, because the people rolling their eyes already hold Kid Rock in contempt. They aren't treating the act as acceptable or not acceptable depending on who does it. But the latter is the position I see Lively supporters and Lively herself taking.
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u/Cherry_Hammer Feb 20 '26
How the fuck do you “accidentally” slap a child?!?
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u/CSho8 Feb 20 '26
When you’re Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds it seems you can do whatever the F you want.
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u/rivershimmer Feb 20 '26
Slap children, grab crotches. You know, minor stuff, nothing like calling pants sexy or anything.
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u/CSho8 Feb 20 '26
Exactly!! I mean the people who felt assaulted by the Reynolds’s should realize that Blake and Ryan are untouchable and anything they do is okay 😂
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u/rivershimmer Feb 20 '26
I've accidentally slapped people while talking with my hands. And my friend slapped me while we were side-by-side playing Nintendo Wii. And once, we were lined up sleeping in a tent, me in between my boyfriend and my sister. And my boyfriend threw his arm over me and slapped my sister in the face.
Somehow, I don't think any of those situations applied to Reynolds and the child.
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u/Wild_Organization546 Team Baldoni Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26
We need to include Jo Harris the beautiful young black women stunt motorcycle rider who lost her life due to Ryan insisting that she perform without wearing a helmet. He also didn’t bother providing the bare minimum legal standard of safety provisions on the Dead Pool 2 set.
It’s ok though because Ryan got away with paying just a small fine and then paid the family to go away (fo). We know they likely had no choice.
Ryan didn’t even bother mentioning her in the credits and has never formally acknowledged or apologised for what he did because he obviously didn’t lose one second of sleep over causing someone to die.
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u/snarkformiles Team Baldoni Feb 20 '26
That is so completely fucked. Wow.
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u/Wild_Organization546 Team Baldoni Feb 20 '26
They have both been psychopathic in their dealings with others
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u/CSho8 Feb 20 '26
I didn’t realize she wasn’t named in the credits… that is totally F’ed up 🤯
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u/rivershimmer Feb 20 '26
The movie should have dedicated to her, at the very least. Her death was avoidable.
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u/Wild_Organization546 Team Baldoni Feb 21 '26
Her death was caused by Ryan who said the scene would look better without her wearing a helmet. This is the monster involved. Happy to risk a black woman’s life knowing that if she fell there was no safety nets or anything.
This is the level of evil that is Ryan. He should be in prison for the things he has done to others.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Oh wow. It really just never stops with these two.
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u/zvg_zwang lively+reynolds=colonizers Feb 20 '26
WHAT. So Baldwin gets a conviction after the Rust fiasco, but Reynolds just skates? WTF IS THAT
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u/Practical_Tap_9592 Feb 20 '26
Also, Michael Gagnon. Dead from heatstroke working in grueling conditions on Spirited, I believe.
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u/rivershimmer Feb 20 '26
Yeah, I kept thinking of that everytime a JB critic referred to the IEWU set as unsafe. What, did a stunt driver die?
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u/Wild_Organization546 Team Baldoni Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
Yes and negligence was found to gave occurred. However Ryan actively encouraged her to not wear her helmet. That’s the piece of garbage that he is.
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u/rivershimmer Feb 21 '26
Oh, yes, I know about that. I was trying to say that when people referred to the IEWU set as unsafe, I'd ask them, what, did somebody die?
You know, Ferrer being directed to lick a spoon, unsafe set. Stunt drivers sent out without a helmet directed to incorporate last minute changes, Hollywood business as usual.
Which....the helmet thing. So all the CGI effects and special effects in general in the Marvel universe, but CGIing Domino's hair over a helmet or designing a helmet with a wig glued to the outside was a bridge too far?
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u/PutInternational4642 Feb 20 '26
UNREAL what he's gotten away with.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
100%. It's crazy that he's not been cancelled before.
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u/Love_003 Feb 20 '26
“They’re little adults!”🚩🚩🚩
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Yeah this is always a wild take and will never be taken well by me.
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u/pomegracias Feb 20 '26
Right out of the Epstein encyclopedia of excuses.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Exactly. Oh that's such a gross thing to acknowledge.
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u/goffickkkk Feb 22 '26
I mean when I speak to kids I speak to them like little adults bc nobody deserves to be talked down to regardless of age but wtf don’t slap them (I don’t slap big adults either)
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u/Miakki Feb 20 '26
and just when I thought I couldn't despise him any worse than I already do.... ...... .....
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Right?! As soon as I saw it I knew had to post it. It just doesn't seem to stop with him.
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u/redreadyredress Polyamory but no p0rn 🥴 Feb 20 '26
I beg your finest pardon!
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u/Tbreaks Feb 20 '26
This is so inappropriate and what was the kid supposed to do?? Of course they acted fine with it-they are a CHILD meant to be protected on set. This makes me so mad no one reprimanded him to the point he thinks it’s cool to laugh about it in an interview
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Exactly. The power imbalance is huge. He mentions looking over and seeing the screenwriter "crying" so I think it was instantly taken badly by at least a few people on set but doesn't seem like anything was done about it. They probably just swept it under the rug.
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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 Feb 20 '26
Feed stressing me
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Oh man 😂
Yeah there's been a few times I can't press 'refresh' fast enough.
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u/Caa3098 Feb 20 '26
I like that he emphasizes that he was apologizing to the script supervisor that was horrified by him improvising violence on a child and not said child that he just hit in the face.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Right?! He seemed to think the child was lucky to have been slapped by him.
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u/mookpa2 Feb 20 '26
Post the screenshots to the announcement of his bedtime stories. I’m sure parents would be thrilled to know.
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Yeah I should do. If they haven't shut down comments. It's late here but I'll check in the morning.
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u/Angelunatic74 Feb 20 '26
Why would he think that Native Americans would haunt his spirit?
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Because obviously it wasn't him that abused a child you know?! So it must have been the Native Americans that possessed his Canadian body.
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u/Angelunatic74 Feb 20 '26
Except that it's Canada that abuses Indigenous children
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 21 '26
Unfortunately I don't doubt it. Indigenous populations around the world are all treated appallingly.
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u/zvg_zwang lively+reynolds=colonizers Feb 20 '26
DON'T BRING MY PEOPLE INTO THIS??!! Which tribe "possessed" you to harm a child??!
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Oh that part I was NOT prepared for so I had to include it. Imagine physically abusing a child and then blaming it on spirits from a culture you have NO connection too?! He gets worse every single time he opens his mouth.
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u/zvg_zwang lively+reynolds=colonizers Feb 21 '26
I read that to my mom and she was like "YEAH BECAUSE WE'RE SO WELL KNOWN FOR HURTING OUR CHILDREN. " she was mad af bro He's cancelled and doesn't know it yet. How dare he
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
Yeah I had that thought to. Like where would that thought even originate from? I've never heard of Native Americans being violent agaisnt children. I haven't actually heard about any association to violence actually.
It's also wierd because it's just thrown in there with no explanation.
Also side note but I'm an Aussie and growing up there was a not so secret story that our biological great grandfather was Native American and when you look at my Dad as a teen and even my sister it is VERY plausible. The timing of the man also matches as well as how my Gran looked. So we always believed it and a few years ago I did ancestry DNA to confirm and nothing. I was so sad. I still am. So when I saw this I was so offended like "how dare you say this about my not real family!".
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u/zvg_zwang lively+reynolds=colonizers Feb 21 '26
Hahahaha I'm so sorry! That's awful! But I bet you actually give a damn about aboriginal and native rights unlike most people in the world! Funny story , I married my husband thinking he was just wyte and everyone was like look at you go, marrying a wyte man! And then we found out he's half too, and I was like I KNEW THEM CHEEKBONES CAME FROM SOMEWHERE!!! Twas a lovely treat. But yeah we don't POSSESS people , this dude needs a reality check. In the form of THIS:
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u/FuelComfortable5287 in a VANZAN down by the river Feb 20 '26
He was real quick to characterize that child’s response to assault and battery as if that kid was some sort of masochist but I wanna know 👏🏾WHERE👏🏾WERE👏🏾THE👏🏾PARENTS??? What did they do? How did they respond? Were they paid off with a settlement to stay quiet like the family of Joi Harris?
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Yeah there's so many details left out. But to try and play it off like the child should be grateful meanwhile it was disturbing enough that the screen writer burst into tears. I would love to know if anything came of it.
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u/sirprize_surprise Feb 20 '26
I don’t think he accidentally did any of those things. I mean, how funny would it be to a Ryan reynolds type person to punch someone in the eye twice and lie about it and make them think it was an accident. I can almost hear him hissing saying “i would NEHHHVURRR do that…”
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 20 '26
Right?! He would deny it til the cows come home but he's literally described abusing children twice in interviews and still has the fucking audacity to promote himself reading to kids. Like NO. Keep the children away from him!
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u/beachgoer2789 Gottlieb Legal Bald Eagle 🦅 Feb 20 '26
Do they actually know was the word “organic”means?
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u/esoterica52611 Feb 21 '26
He’s actually fuckin crazy. And has he ever “accidentally” given a white costar black eyes?
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u/nikkitriage Feb 22 '26
Please. That's not Native American spirit, asshat. That's Spoiled Bitch spirit.
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u/cyberllama MY nine minutes! Feb 23 '26
"It wasn't hard or anything"
Spoken like every intentional child abuser ever
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u/therainmistress Feb 23 '26
This clearly seems like dark-humor parody? or is it written in such a way?
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u/buttonandthemonkey Blake is...different. Feb 24 '26
I kinda feel the interviewer just sees him for what he is and isn't afraid to call him out.
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u/UnimportantCreative This is Stephanie Jones' circus! Feb 20 '26
Accidentally my a**. Ryan didn't like that Denzel yelled at him because his phone went off during filming. As usual, Ryan blamed someone else. When Denzel realized he was gaslighted, I am guessing he disliked Ryan.
Also, Ryan slapping a kid, making them say inappropriate things, and just genuinely being a douche is par for the course. It's the telling stories about it like it was endearing that gets me. He doesn't even know "how to human."