Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s on-and-off “feud” is back on ― for a good cause, of course.
The actors recently competed against each other in a charity event, in which they partnered with Sam’s Club to sell products from their personal brands: Aviation Gin for Ryan, and Laughing Man Coffee for Hugh.
Whoever sold the most of their products in a little over a month “won,” though donations of equal value would be made to both the SickKids Foundation ― which Ryan supports ― and Hugh’s own Laughing Man Foundation. Fans could also separately vote for the two online, without purchasing anything.
The Wolverine actor ended up winning, which meant Ryan had to post a hilarious video on Twitter, and Hugh got to absolutely roast him.
“Quite literally, I have a legal obligation to post this,” Ryan quipped in a tweet on Monday, which showed the nearly minute-and-a-half-long clip.
The video started with some words from Sam’s Club CEO Kathryn McLay. After McLay told Hugh he’d won, the actor called his friend and mortal enemy “Bryan” (a deliberate misspelling of Ryan) to tell him he’d lost the competition.
A confused Ryan answered the video call with a “Hey Hugh!” and a slight smile, before the straight-faced Greatest Showman star delivered the news.
“You lost the Sam’s Club thing. I won,” Hugh said, before delivering a final, devastating line.
“Everyone hates you,” he added, before quickly signing off the video call with a “Bye!” and a smile.
A befuddled Ryan was left speechless on the call while he jokingly attempted to take in the news.
The video then cut to a white screen that flashed “CONGRATS TO HUGH” in all caps, with a slightly smaller “Sorry, Ryan”.
Ryan followed up the funny video by telling his followers that the “REAL winner of the feud is the SickKids Foundation and Laughing Man Foundation”.
Hugh couldn’t resist adding in one last dig, tweeting in response: “You are gracious in defeat. It’s a start.”
Commenters clearly loved the exchange between the two:
The two friends briefly called a “temporary cease-fire” in their feud in April of this year when they partnered up for the All In Challenge, a charity effort to raise money to feed people.
Though it’s hard to remember why they started (fake) fighting in the first place, Jackman says it all has to do with Reynold’s ex-wife, Scarlett Johansson. The two were married from 2008 to 2011.
“I met him back on Wolverine, and I used to ream him because I was very close friends with Scarlett, and Scarlett had just married Ryan,” Hugh told The Daily Beast earlier this year.
“So when he came on set, I was like, ‘Hey, you better be on your best behaviour here, pal, because I’m watching,’” he said. “And we started ribbing each other that way… Then it all escalated with the Deadpool thing and him calling me out.”
