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Ryan Reynolds opened up about life raising his first son with with wife Blake Lively on Late Night with Seth Meyers
The actor joked that his son Olin, 2, was born with three things on his mind — “violence, breasts and engines” — and noted that he doesn’t “understand where this comes from”
Reynolds welcomed son Olin with lively in 2023 and daughters Betty, Inez and James in 2019, 2016 and 2014, respectively
Ryan Reynolds has some reservations about having son.
The Deadpool & Wolverine star, 48, revealed on the Oct. 9 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that things changed in his household after he and wife Blake Lively welcomed their first son Olin, 2.
“We live in a very, like, there’s nothing violent in our home,” Reynolds shared. “There’s nothing creepy. [But Olin] came out with three things on his mind. It was violence, breasts and engines.”
“I really don’t understand where this comes from,” he continued. “If I had like three boys at first, I would never— There’s no way. I would give myself a punching vasectomy. Like, there’s no way I would allow that to happen.”
The actor, who is also dad to daughters James, 10, Inez, 9, and Betty, 6, noted that dealing with “three girls” was “just so easy,” compared to a boy who’s “gotta break everything.”
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Ryan Reynolds during an interview with Seth Meyers
“Do the girls collectively feel it’s an HR issue that you’ve added a boy to the family?” host Seth Meyers asked, to which he responded, “I do.”
“I’m like in direct competition with this young man,” he joked. “No he’s — I’m the youngest of four boys and boy do I feel for my mom. You know like I really do. My dad meh. But my mom really.”
“I mean like when I was 8, I’m not making this up. I knew how to patch drywall,” he explained. “That right there says a lot. Like I knew how to literally a whole in the wall, I could repair that in less than six minutes before my dad got home perfectly. Like spackle, sand, and paint, we’re good.”
Reynolds went on to recall his own childhood growing up in a house full of boys. His parents Tammy Reynolds, and father James “Jim” Chester Reynolds had four sons — Jeff, Jerry and Patrick, with the Deadpool actor being the youngest.
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively with daughters James Reynolds and Ines Reynolds in Hollywood, California in 2016
“Do you know how many times my brothers had me exit a room not through the door?” the IF actor asked. “I was a moving target that they would use. You know cops, what they would use when they’re breaking into the place with a battering ram, that was my head. I was the ram.”
Reynold has previously opened up about how fatherhood has changed him. He shared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018 that he felt fatherhood has “kind of made me a better person, I think.”
“It’s a dream,” he added of the role, adding of his kids, “They’re the best. They’re my buddies. I love it.”
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