Blake Lively Strips Down for Cheeky Joke to Promote Ryan Reynolds in ‘Free Guy’

Ryan Reynolds‘ new action-comedy Free Guy hits theaters on Friday, August 13, and his wife, fellow actor Blake Lively, is putting her Instagram stories to good use to promote the project. Lively posted a photo of herself in a stunning floral bikini to her Instagram story, posing with her back to the camera and her backside on full display. “Go see [Free Guy] this weekend or you’ll be bummed” she wrote, adding a gif of Reynolds from the film.

Lively also jokingly called out Rotten Tomatoes for a post about Free Guy where they used a photo of the other famous Canadian Ryan, Ryan Gosling, from his movie The Nice Guys. “[Rotten Tomatoes], really?” she wrote in a different Instagram story. “This photo is very confusing to all the people who can’t tell Canadian Ryans apart.”

In a recent interview with PEOPLE, Reynolds joked that he is constantly trolled by Lively and she’s gotten their three daughters — James, 6, Inez, 4, and Betty, 22 months — in on the jokes as well. When asked whether he’d ever been trolled in real life, Reynolds replied “Oh, God, yes, I do. Are you kidding me? I live with one. My wife trolls the crap out of me. Why would I go online? I’ve got it right here at home. Even my daughters now troll me, so like I’m safe from nothing.”

This is a couple that clearly enjoys each other’s company. Reynolds also recently told Sirius XM’s Jess Cagle that Lively’s actually stepped in for him on a number of occasions, writing a few of his iconic lines in various movies. “I write on a lot of my movies,” Reynolds explained, per ComicBook.com. “It’s been a survival mechanism for me for a long time. Sometimes I’m credited, sometimes I’m not… There’s a lot of A++ writing that I’ve done that was actually Blake — that Blake would jump in, grab the keyboard, and ‘What about this?’ And I’d be like, ‘That’s incredible.’ And you know, it’s funny. I don’t know. Maybe it’s ’cause there’s inherent sexism in the business — I will say that a lot of times, ‘She wrote that — Blake like, wrote that not me. That was was her.’ And it’s like, they still, later on, repeat the story as I wrote it.”

Tom Kucher

For as long as Tom can remember, he has understood the reality around him through the tinted glasses of works of fiction, be it books, films, TV shows, or anime. An English graduate, he wrote articles on a wide array of topics for several years, from entertainment and pop culture to history and literature. Before that, he was an educator and a roleplay game writer and developer. It is his deeply-rooted love for performing arts and visual media that led him to become a part of the DC team in 2020.

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