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If your life has devolved into one awkward Zoom call after another during the pandemic, a recent prank Ryan Reynolds pulled on Hugh Jackman and a handful of other O.G. X-Men stars will really resonate.
This past Saturday, Global Citizen, which bills itself as the "world's largest" initiative dedicated to eradicating global poverty, held an online benefit concert. As part of the show, it put on a virtual celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original X-Men movie by pulling together stars Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Halle Barre, Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. Quite a lineup!
All was going well, until Ryan Reynolds decided to reignite his "feud" with Jackman by crashing the whole thing. Suddenly, things got real awkward, and the chummy group of stars began dropping out one-by-one like flies.
For the uninitiated, Reynolds is part of the X-Men universe โ he was in X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Jackman back in 2009 as the character Deadpool, and went on to reprise the character in two of his own Marvel movies, with a third one announced for the future.
But those are not the movies that were holding a reunion, of course. So what was Reynolds doing there exactly? Along with stars of two other X-Men movies he brought along with him, Sophie Turner, James McAvoy and...Liev Schreiber? Well it seems Reynolds and Jackman have been embroiled in a years-long social media "feud" since they worked together back in 2009.
It all began with some playful on-set ribbing, but over the ensuing 11 years, it has escalated to Jackman and Reynolds hijacking each other's birthdays, anniversaries and other such milestones with some kind of jokey social media hijinks, any chance they get. Now, they can add online movie reunions to the list. Score one for Reynolds!
Online, fans of the two were delighted by this new chapter in Reynolds v. Jackman.
This is the absolute best. @VancityReynolds #Deadpool crashing the @RealHughJackman and the #Xmen reunion ๐ ... theโฆ https://t.co/TWZncUkuaJโ Razi Hashmi (@Razi Hashmi) 1593437229.0
@EW I just love them both ๐โฅ๏ธ@RealHughJackman @VancityReynoldsโ ๐ฏ๐ดAny @HOME๐ด๐ฒ (@๐ฏ๐ดAny @HOME๐ด๐ฒ) 1593452835.0
I freaking love @RealHughJackman and @VancityReynolds #XMEN #Deadpool https://t.co/ppi0jkE0Cgโ Victoria (@Victoria) 1593458790.0
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds Name a more iconic duo https://t.co/u7AX8LeyN9โ Jess โจ (@Jess โจ) 1593285260.0
Funniest fake feud after Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon ๐๐๐ https://t.co/FGjO2k024Qโ Adwina (@Adwina) 1593451343.0
@DanielW09956904 @ladbible Itโs class isnโt it๐they are so funny togetherโ Ethan Hellin (@Ethan Hellin) 1593349875.0
@VancityReynolds definitely loves to mess around with @RealHughJackman ๐๐ plus they should also include james marsdโฆ https://t.co/eBdZsn9rLuโ alyn28๐|natasha_romanoff| (@alyn28๐|natasha_romanoff|) 1593357476.0
the way i screamed when this came on ๐๐ https://t.co/RU2q9UUpXpโ han (@han) 1593285005.0
@HollywoodLife Best laugh today ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ https://t.co/lOuN2GLw1Cโ Thomas Kummer (@Thomas Kummer) 1593455850.0
they love each other https://t.co/hGznjUGdWSโ ๐ข๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ค๐ซ๐๐จ ๐ก๐๐ก ๐๐ช๐๐ฎ (@๐ข๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ค๐ซ๐๐จ ๐ก๐๐ก ๐๐ช๐๐ฎ) 1593285795.0
@HuffPost I love their fake fued.โ Michael J (@Michael J) 1593414785.0
Reynolds may have won this round, but however Jackman decides to retaliate is sure to be epic!