Comedy Fans Applaud Ryan Reynolds for Allegedly Acting ‘Horrifically Mean’ Toward T.J. Miller

Justin Baldoni's media team will have to come up with some stronger hit pieces if they think they can weasel their way out of this current PR disaster.

As every gossip outlet in the English language continues to proclaim in explosive headlines designed to make heads spin in the check-out line, the It Ends with Us star and director is currently embroiled in the most high-profile celebrity feud with former co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds since Bette Davis and Joan Crawford turned the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? into a war zone. Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment on It Ends with Us in a lawsuit filed late last year, and Baldoni has since shot back with dizzying $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Reynolds, whom Baldoni's lawyer believes created the character of Nicepool in Deadpool & Wolverine just to make fun of his client's man bun.

With the Deadpool film franchise caught directly in the crossfire of this heavyweight publicity battle, it comes as no surprise that the latest negative news story to come out about combatant Reynolds relates to his own treatment of a co-star and subordinate during the making of Deadpool 2 back in 2017. But what the Baldoni team didn’t expect is for this story about Reynolds allegedly insulting disgraced actor and stand-up comic T.J. Miller to make Reynolds even more beloved by comedy fans everywhere:

The latest nonsense in the Baldoni-Lively/Reynolds war of the tabloids revolves around Miller’s 2022 appearance on The Adam Carolla Show, in which Miller, who played the arms dealer and sidekick Weasel in the first two Deadpool films, claimed that Reynolds was a little too method when playing the mouthy, abusive assassin. “As the character, he was, like, horrifically mean to me,” Miller recalled, clarifying, “But to me. As if I’m Weasel.”

“He was like, ‘You know what’s great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you do just enough exposition that it’s funny and then we can leave and get back to the real movie,’” Miller recalled of Reynolds’ insults, suggesting that his Deadpool co-star and boss could have been “insecure” about his own comedic abilities and put Miller down to feel better about himself. “That’s exactly why he said that,” Miller said of Reynolds, “because I’m not funnier than he is at all, right? And I haven’t been in more movies than him.”

Miller, who was the subject of a serious sexual assault allegation shortly after the shooting of Deadpool 2 and who didn’t reprise his role in Deadpool & Wolverine, said that he wouldn’t work with Reynolds again after his experiences. “I sorta wish him well, because he’s so good at Deadpool, and I think it’s weird that he hates me,” Miller told Carolla.

However, and sadly for the Twitter users who thought that Reynolds exacted some sort of workplace vigilante justice on his former co-star, Miller walked back his claims of acrimony between him and Reynolds in November 2024 during an appearance on the SiriusXM podcast The Bonfire when he reported that he and Reynolds had since made amends, saying of Reynolds, “He’s just been such a good friend right now,” suggesting that it “would be awesome” if he returned to the franchise in Deadpool 4.

While there clearly isn’t the bad blood between Reynolds and Miller that Baldoni’s media team and Miller’s haters wish there to be, many comedy fans have had an ax to grind with the former Deadpool and Silicon Valley star ever since news broke of the aforementioned sexual assault allegation against Miller. In 2017, a college classmate of Miller’s claimed that the comedian became violent with her during a sexual encounter and began beating and choking her without her consent. The classmate didn’t take any legal action against Miller, who denied her claims and described his accuser as vindictive and defamatory.

But Miller did quickly find himself in serious legal trouble in 2018 when law enforcement officials arrested him on federal charges related to a fake bomb threat that the Department of Justice said Miller placed after a drunken altercation with a fellow passenger during a train ride from Washington, D.C. to New York. Prosecutors dropped the suit in 2021 based on Miller’s medical history, which included a brain surgery that possibly had serious neurological impact at the time of the incident, and after Miller promised to make full financial restitution of the costs incurred by law enforcement in response to the bomb threat.

Unfortunately for both the pro-Baldoni battalion and the anti-Miller mob on Twitter, this Deadpool 2 bombshell also turned out to be a dud.