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Seemingly Planted Story About Ryan Reynolds’ Alleged Poor Treatment Of TJ Miller Backfires As Movie World Flocks To Praise Him

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Amidst the ongoing legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively, movie fans suspect Baldoni’s legal team of trying to engineer a smear campaign against Ryan Reynolds by “resurfacing” an old clip about his behavior. The only problem, however, is that the clip has resulted in Reynolds earning praise.

Earlier this week, British tabloid The Daily Mail published an article suggesting that an old TJ Miller interview with Adam Corolla in which Miller detailed Ryan Reynolds’ poor treatment of him had “resurfaced.” The rub is that the video hasn’t been published about anywhere else and hasn’t been trending anywhere on social media.

As a result, although unconfirmed and entirely speculation, movie fans seem to think the story is a plant from Justin Baldoni’s legal team in an effort to make Reynolds look bad with anecdotes about TJ Miller. That strategy has entirely backfired, however, as Miller has long been blackballed from the industry due to multiple accusations of assault.

“As the character, he was, like, horrifically mean to me. But to me. As if I’m Weasel [his Deadpool character],” Miller said on The Adam Corolla Show in 2022.

“I think it’s pretty cool Ryan Reynolds was mean to TJ Miller considering he’s a piece of s—,” said a tweet with almost 8 million views.

“Sorry to this smear campaign but unfortunately there’s nothing more cool and likable than someone being mean to TJ Miller, who is one of the absolute worst, most odious dudes on the planet,” read another viral response.

“Continuing to make Ryan Reynolds look like a decent and upstanding man who hates r—— and harassment… I don’t think is going the way Baldoni planned,” added a third popular post.

“I think more men should be ‘horrifically mean’ to peers accused of assault and choking women,” a entertainment journalist opined.

Lively and Baldoni are currently in the midst of am extremely public legal battle with Lively accusing Baldoni of harassment during the filming of It Ends With Us  and retaliatory smear campaign, and Baldoni countersuing for $400 million, alleging defamation and extortion. Baldoni has also listed Reynolds as a defendant in the suit and claims the Nicepool character in Deadpool & Wolverine was used to make a mockery of him.