Whatever horrible things we have said and will continue to say about Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July-Taymerica party, can we all agree that it was probably one of the biggest stories of the year? That’s good branding, folks. All Taylor had to do was invite all of her friends to Rhode Island for a long weekend, rent out a giant slide and have an “I Heart T.S.” t-shirt made, and BOOM, we’re still talking about the Taymerica party five months later. Anyway, one of the funnier stories to come out of the Taymerica party was that Tay-Tay invited Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The fact that Blake “Allure of Antebellum” Lively and Taylor “Innocent White Child” Swift are friends isn’t surprising, but it was surprising to see Deadpool mixing it up with all of those shiny, happy people.
Ryan’s discomfort was written all over his face too, which everyone could see in one Instagram (above). While it was notable because of TIDDLES, it was also notable because Ryan’s face is basically the face every Hiddlestoner made when they saw the “I Heart T.S.” t-shirt. It’s a face of sadness, of grief, of discomfort, of suppressed laughter. So now, all of these months later, what does Ryan have to say about the face he was making in that photo?
Ryan Reynolds has had a helluva 2016, and that’s why EW named him our Entertainer of the Year. He starred in one of the year’s biggest hits, Deadpool. He welcomed a second daughter with wife Blake Lively (The Shallows). And he spent our nation’s birthday at the home of none other than Taylor Swift. The latter event became the stuff of internet gold when a group shot, including Reynolds, Lively, Swift, and then boyfriend Tom Hiddleston, hit social media. While the other subjects seem quite happy, Reynolds’ sad looking face became meme fodder.
So when we sat down with Reynolds to talk about his great year for this week’s EW, we had to ask: Were you actually upset? “No that’s a problem I’ve had all my life,” admits the actor. “If I’m not aware a photo is being taken, my natural resting face is one of a man dying. I had no idea somebody was taking a photo. Therefore I was resting comfortably in my persona of a man whose soul is visibly exiting this earth.”
First of all, Ryan Reynolds is made of lies!! He knew he was being photographed. No one sits like that on a porch naturally. Of course they were all posed!!! Jesus. Now, just because he agreed to the pose and he agreed to be photographed, that doesn’t mean his face was in full compliance. Sometimes I think I’m making a vaguely pleasant “I’m listening” face and someone will ask me why I look like I’m about to kill someone. Ryan’s face betrayed him, is what I’m saying. He thought he was playing along and his face was like “I can’t believe you’re doing this, this whole thing is so twee and idiotic.”
Could Ryan Reynolds look more bored if he tried…?! pic.twitter.com/FFYTYVZDeB
— BBC Radio1 Breakfast (@R1Breakfast) July 6, 2016
“I now know what to call the Deadpool sequel: Deadpool: DeadInside.”
– Ryan Reynolds’ internal monologue pic.twitter.com/DaNBlFlz3q— A-A-Ron Swanson (@coucouaaron) July 6, 2016
Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN. Cover courtesy of EW.
LOL I don’t know, man..I thought his explanation was pretty damn funny. I think I like him.
He has grown on me greatly in the last few years.
I actively ignored him during the Green Lantern dark times, but I have left over good feels from when he was funny and got mostly naked in The Proposal.
I cackled at the “No green suit” part and had to whisper to my grandson what it meant.
He was so good in The Woman In Gold with Helen Mirren. Watched it this weekend and now I can’t deny how much I like him.
He’s one of the few celebrities I follow on twitter and man he is IT. Self deprecating and very very funny!
I thought it was funny too. Also, classy. He took a dig at himself instead of the situation he was experiencing. He clearly didn’t want to be there, but would never say so.
That was pretty great. Made me laugh
Me fourth, it made me laugh out loud anyway, no one can accuse this man of not having a sense of humour.
Edit: I can count but my comment was caught up in moderation land !
+100000 it is a lie, but it is funny. I still laugh every time I see that pic. LOL
I have loved him since 2 Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Shop. He’s hot and his sense of humor makes him so much hotter. Also, I feel like his wife dressed him for the party. Sockless keds and matching navy outfits. It’s like they looked up “dress code for New England 4th of July” parties.
I know I laughed. Out loud even. I love his response. I mean, what was he supposed to say?
I loathe him in so many ways, but yeah, that was funny. Looking at the photo I’m noticing that Tom has his hand around the stem of his glass like he was preparing for something horrible. Like he had to grip something just so he wouldn’t scream out. I know because I have to do the same thing every time a nurse is about to draw blood. I can’t look and I have to grab onto something for support. Hm…
MAYBE he thought the photo taking was over, or hadn’t started yet? God knows, really. I like Ryan though.
This is what I just thought. It’s not like they took just me shot, right?
This picture still gives me life.
Better than coffee is Ryan’s misery juxtaposed with Tom and Tay getting exactly what they want.
Also his new young, slightly dishevelled, professor look is really working for me.
Yeah he’s looking pretty damn sexy here…and I’ve never really felt that way about him before.
He’s fooooiiiiine.
So sexy. And, in movies, he makes these super-sensitive-man facial expressions and I just want to lick his face.
Plus the fact that he’s hilarious and self deprecating.
All in all: 10/10 would climb like a tree.
Girlfriend I am with YOU. I own very few movies and The Proposal and Just Friends are two of my favorite films ever, in large part because of this expressions you speak of. I do like him disheveled more recently, but I also feel like becoming a husband and father to Blake made him sexier in his ability to gush about them and clearly take his roles there seriously.
When I started following him on twitter this last year I was done and done and cooked and serve me! He is hilarious. And endearing. Cares about causes. Yep.
(I didn’t realize I adored him so much hahaha)
@mrsbradpitt I feel you mama. It was such a disillusionment.
The gray makes all the difference. It’s hot.
What’s not hot is him not owning that glorious f*ckery. Come on Ryan, your wife lives on Instagram, you knew what was going on. This is her life and you agreed to it for better or for worse.
I’m still enjoying this photo, I can’t even be mad at anyone in it. These people are ridiculous and bless them for it.
@Little Darling….I will never believe any celebrity couple that are gushing about how much in love they are and how much they adore their kids, ever again!! Brad and Angie made me lose all my starry eyed innocence about a land of hot couples with families who live the perfect life…(stomps feet, starts to cry and runs from the room)
Meh I mean my husband wouldn’t throw me under the bus over something he knows, for better or for worse. Like the love affair I have with Guy Fieri or late night reruns with Bobby Flay. Both are questionable but he’ll deny deny deny.
*breathes a massive sigh of relief*
FINALLY. I can be satisfied in putting this garbage year to bed, knowing that I finally have the answer to one of my most burning 2016 questions.
Why did Ryan Reynolds look uncomfortable sitting on Taylor Swift’s porch?
Thank God. Thank God. Our national mystery is finally solved.
LMAO!!! Thank you for the laugh this morning! 🙂
LOL!!!
Yassssss our long nightmare is over!
LOL!
They’re are two things I like about Ryan, his sense of humor and his sarcasm . When I saw the picture of the 4th of July weekend I thought he was way to good to be there. I would think he would be in the corner, drinking beer and hysterically making fun of the situation . I’m at the point now that anyone who has any association with the immaturity of Swift is in my bad graces. It’s an automatic no go for me.
Riiiiiiiiight Ryan. You mean you didn’t notice the professional photographer running furiously around all day trying to capture every “casual” or “candid” moment? Uh huh. Bet he’ll think twice before he accepts a party invite from Tay again. Haha. Poor guy.
Exactly! I think that was just his way of apologizing for even participating in that f*ckery. I’m gonna assume he did it for Blake. But there’s no way he didn’t know Tayzilla’s team set that pic up so you could see her fabulous famous friends, her “I’m still so down to earth” regular friends and the latest dude she wanted you to believe fell madly in love with her in five minutes because she’s just got it like that. Sure. She’s all about her PR all the time.
But I forgive you Ryan. Nobody can 100% side-step the vacuous Hollywood machinations of celebrity.
Can I steal Tayzilla? A monster with giant teeth, stomping awkwardly through the big city trying to burn enemies to a crisp, her shrieking cries of vengeance sending those with sensitive ears into painful spasms, while most in her path run away screaming or get crushed? Sounds about right.
I bet it was more of a “his wife wanted to go somewhere and asked him to come along” sort of situation.
OMG…..I miss the days of Tiddlesbanging. Seems like years ago, not just 5 months. I remember squealing every morning when I opened my computer to see the latest Tiddles Tale.
Who is that couple on the right in the first pic?
Non-celebrity childhood friend of Swift.
She has non-celebrity friends? I can’t imagine…
‘Lucifer & Medusa’. Childhood friends of t-swizzy.
t-swizzy!!!
I can’t imagine having to go to a party and work, basically. Pose for perfect pictures…too much.
Obviously he knew they were taking a photo, the couple next to them were cheesing hard (naive non-celebs!). But really, what else could he say?
Yeah… everyone in this photo knew it was being taken. Especially the couple on the far left.
Exactly! Does he think we don’t have eyes? The couple next to them are a dead(pool) give-away. Come on Ryan, we love you, come sit by us and be honest.
I thought Ryan Reynolds looked like that, because he just realized that he was part of TayTay’s squad.
Ok I don’t even Like Gerbil Man all that much ( though I REALLY loved Deadpool!?!) but THAT SH*T WAS HILARIOUS! His Resting face is Man Dying LOLOL Ok Boo, today, You Cook!
i thought it funny, too. I always say I have resting bitch face, and moving bitch face, and breathing bitch face …
I have loved him since the beginning of time.
Self deprecating humor is the biggest turn on ever. Too bad about his looks though.
I wonder what Deadpool would say about this!
…does that really require an explanation?
That explanation would make sense if everyone else in the photo wasn’t hamming it up, LoL The couple on the right is looking right into the camera and Hiddleswift is posing like their lives depend on it.
After the WTF-ery of the past 6 weeks, I needed reminded of the good ole days of TIDDLES ridiculousness.
I enjoyed Ryan’s hilarious bullsh!t response. He knows we know and that’s ok with me.
Hanging out with these people seem to be enough punishment for a whole life of sins.
He seems lost in thought and completely unaware of what is happening around him. I think he jusf didn’t care he was being photographed, posed however he wanted kust to get it over with.
He looks like a sad horse.
i feel for Ryan as i have decided that i have the morose cousin of resting bitch face, which i have deemed, “resting sad face. i can’t count the number of times people have asked me
what’s wrong or commented that i looked forlorn when i was perfectly fine,
That’s my ‘I could be braless and watching netflix’ face, he is my spirit animal.
Ryan’s facial expression could be applicable to various situations including the horror of the election results:
“How the he11 did Trump get elected?”
“Trump? Really?”
“HALP!”
If only Taylor “innocent white child” Swift were 20 years older, we might be able to escape her!https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/white-death/
Of course he felt uncomfortable. Taylor Swift, attention wh*re of the century, has invited him and Blake to this ridiculous show-off party, and now he has to sit on a porch and is told to look as in-love as possible. It’s like one of those engagement photo shoots which invoke discomfort because of how posed they are, but this is x 1,000. The only people who aren’t uncomfortable in this picture are Tiddles because they are so convinced by their own awesomeness that any excruciatingly self indulgent behaviour feels normal to them.
He’s all like, for THIS I gave up a quiet life in Canada. Kill me now.
Ryan’s response was hilarious and I adore him for not saying the obvious truth.