how did they meet?

On the heart side, nothing is going well on the celebrity planet: Britney Spears and Sam Asghari, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez… In this year 2023, the breakups have continued. Why lose faith in love? Fortunately, there are still a few solid couples left. Among them, there are the inseparable Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. This Hollywood favorite duo never misses an opportunity to display their complicity and affection in front of the cameras. In short, between the star of Dead Poolof which C8 broadcasts the second part this Thursday September 14, 2023 at 9:20 p.m. and the eternal Serena van der Woodsen from Gossip Girl, it’s a business that’s rolling. But how did they meet?

How did Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively fall in love during a very awkward evening?

For more than 10 years, the two lovebirds have been living a love story worthy of a film. And that’s good, it’s precisely on the set of the blockbuster Green Lantern that they met, in 2010. At the time, they were only work colleagues since the two were in a relationship, Blake Lively with Penn Badgley, his partner in the series Gossip Girl, Ryan Reynolds being married to Scarlett Johansson, which does not prevent them from getting along. Months pass, separations and a few other relationships each follow, but their friendship remains. To the point of organizing a “double date” in the fall of 2011, meaning a romantic date for four, “with the people we were dating at the time” explained the Canadian actor to the podcast SmartLess. But the evening does not go as planned: “It was maybe the strangest date for the people who were with us because there was spark between her and me.” Love at first sight against a backdrop of unease, original, right?

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively: a romance worthy of a film

The rest of their story seems just as much out of a romantic comedy. “Right afterward, she was going to Boston, I was going to Boston, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll go with you.’ We got on the train and traveled together.” recounted Ryan Reynolds who remembers that his intentions were very clear: “I begged her to sleep with me.” If he doesn’t say what the actress thought of his requests, we do know that things happened very quickly: “A week later I said to him, ‘We should buy a house together,’ and we did.” A year later, the two actors are married – even if they will always have regrets about the ceremony. The secret of this always happy and loving duo? Lots of glamorous outings on the red carpet, teasing on social networks and four little girls – James, Inez, Betty and a last one born this year but whose first name has not been revealed – who must occupy a good part of their days.