BREAKING NEWS: Ryan Reynolds Reflects on Full-Circle Moment Watching Wicked After The Wizard of Oz with Daughter James.giang

Ryan Reynolds had a full-circle moment when he saw Wicked with his daughter.

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the actor, 48, gave a speech as he presented producer Marc Platt with the award for best film for Wicked at the National Board of Review Award Gala in New York City, sharing that he had a sweet connection to the theater he saw the movie in for the first time.

“I saw Wicked at the Metrograph Theater here in New York City,” Reynolds said during his speech. “This is very the same theater that I attended in 2017 when I took my 3-year-old daughter to see her first film on the big screen, which was The Wizard of Oz.”

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Reynolds shares daughters James, 10, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, and son Olin, whom he welcomed in February 2023, with wife Blake Lively.

In November, the actor was interviewed by Deadline and spoke about how his good friend Taylor Swift publicly shared that she was godmother to his kids when she posted about his movie Deadpool & Wolverine.

“Shout out to Wade Wilson, aka my godkids’ sperm donor!” the “Cruel Summer” singer wrote in the caption of her post, referencing Reynolds’ character Deadpool’s real name.

“I’m going to need that on my gravestone, actually,” Reynolds told Deadline of the post.

“Yeah, that is kind of it. She is the godparent to my daughters,” he continued. “That was very sweet. Not just sweet, that was, like, you could probably quantify a box office based on Taylor just doing something like that.”

Earlier this past fall, Reynolds and Lively took daughter James with them as they attended Swift’s concert in New Orleans. In a TikTok video shared from the show, the It Ends with Us star, 37, could be seen walking into the venue with an arm around her daughter, who touted sparkles in her long blonde hair and clapped as she made her way to her seat.

Another video posted to TikTok showed Lively, Reynolds and James later during the show as they listened to Swift’s song “Betty,” which includes all three of Lively’s older kids’ names.

In the video, Lively filmed Swift while James stood in front of her parents, singing along and nodding her head.