Ryan Reynolds Says Seeing So ManyDeadpool & WolverineHalloween Costumes Is 'Like Having a Dream Come True'

Mar. 15, 2025

Ryan Reynolds attends the 2024 Forbes Iconoclast Summit at Cipriani Wall Street on June 20, 2024 in New York City. ; Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.Photo:Taylor Hill/Getty ; Disney/Marvel

Taylor Hill/Getty ; Disney/Marvel

Ryan Reynoldsis impressed to seeDeadpool & Wolverine’s popularity carry over into Halloween.

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 1, Reynolds, 48, shared a post to hisInstagram Storiesthat featured a photo of him and costarHugh Jackmanin their Julyblockbustersuperhero movie, writing he “can’t believe the amount of Deadpool & Wolvie costumes running around last night.”

“You’ll never know what that’s like if you’re me. I feel like I’m five years old, staring out the window at some impossible future,” Reynolds wrote in his post. “People made mini movies and wore some of the best suits I’ve ever seen. Little kids to kick-ass geezer-pools. Quoting lines, laughing and performing stunts.”

“I’m not cool or aloof about stuff like this - No part of me takes it for granted or feels entitled to it,” Reynolds wrote of the movie’s success and his character’s rise to pop culture stardom. “It’s like having a dream come true - but a dream you didn’t know you were dreaming of.”

Ryan Reynolds Instagram Stories Nov. 1, 2024.Ryan Reynolds Instagram

Ryan Reynolds Instagram

Reynolds has always displayed a high level of enthusiasm for the character. As his wifeBlake Livelyrecalled in a July 26Instagram, Reynolds was pitching Deadpool to her and theirGreen LanterncostarTaika Waititias far back as 2010, when they costarred in and met on the set of the Warner Bros. superhero film.

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“It was a ‘meta’ superhero,” Lively, 37, wrote at that time. “Most of us didn’t know what exactly meta meant back then. Except Taika bc he’s always been more brilliant than the rest of us mortals. We understood in theory, but how it would come together for an audience was murky, for everyone but [Reynolds].”

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds on July 22, 2024.Michael Loccisano/getty

Michael Loccisano/getty

Reynolds, whoshares four childrenwith Lively, posted just some of the Deadpool costumes he saw on social media to his Instagram Stories on Halloween night, includingKelly RipaandMark Consuelosas Deadpoolposing withJoey Fatoneas Jackman’s Wolverine.

If Lively and Reynolds stepped out in costume on Halloween night, the pair have not yet shared photos. They did submit their ballots for the upcoming U.S. presidential election on Oct. 31, though, with Livelywriting on Instagramthat “getting an “I Voted” sticker was more exciting than candy.”

source: people.com